Awesome Tapes from Africa + Sahel Sounds + Bird & Whale

Awesome Tapes from Africa is a blog, label and the moniker of a deejaying fellow named Brian Shimkovitz; Portland, OR's Christopher Kirkley runs the Sahel Sounds blog, dedicated to the music and culture of West Africa; and the Bird & Whale crew runs another blog that works in similar sonic territory. Tonight, they'll all be hitting the decks to play selections from Africa and its diaspora. It should be rather…awesome.