The Trailblazing Journey of “Awesome Tapes From Africa” Amplifying African Music
Acknowledged universally, the music label “Awesome Tapes from Africa” started as a simple blog in 2006. The American label, stationed in Los Angeles, was founded by Brian Shimkovitz. At the time, Shimkovitz had just returned from his Fulbright scholarship in Ghana, where he discovered a treasure trove of various music genres distributed on casset