Those boxes followed him on his move to New York in fall of 2005 and now line the walls of his apartment, stacked to the ceiling in some rooms.
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But it would just be full of these tapes." "They would get these shoeboxes in the mail and think I was sending them gifts. "I would send boxes back to my parents in Chicago," he said. Shimkovitz returned after graduation on a Fulbright grant and began delving into it in depth. Taken with both the current and past music emanating from Ghana as well as what he found in immigrant communities located in West African country's largest city, Accra, Mr. "Her music is so organic, simple and stripped-down: It felt like a great manifesto and first statement for the label." Shimkovitz said while seated in his cramped East Village apartment. "Doumbia's a household name in Mali," Mr. The first release on his newly minted Awesome Tapes From Africa record label. And starting next week, he will be releasing the music of Malian singer
Shimkovitz has curated for more than five years now. Shimkovitz's stage name, Awesome Tapes From Africa.Īwesome Tapes From Africa is also the name of the blog Mr.
But soon the crowd was dancing intently to a set of Cameroonian folk, South Sudanese dancehall and Senegalese hip-hop. He pressed play on one and the gentle sound of an African thumb piano was immediately lost amid the din of audience chatter and scattering bowling pins. Shimkovitz, 30 years old, opened up what looked like a plastic tackle box filled to capacity with cassettes and stacked a few next to two tape decks. Brian Shimkovitz, who uses the name Awesome Tapes From Africa, in his Lower East Side apartment.