Bimi Ombale was one of the founders of Zaiko Langa-Langa
in 1969. This LP is from 1989 and proves Bimi was still
able to write some wonderful songs just
as he did at Zaïko’s.

tracks;

1 Inongo
2 Mbelengo
3 Charama
4 Lelo komikalela
5 Madi

Some highly infectious soukous by one of the masters in the
field. Diblo and le Groupe Loketo are here with some of his
special invités. If you have a dance event coming and need
strong material, give ‘Super K’ a chance, knock out sound,
..better save it for last ’cause where to go next..?
Oh and eh,..don’t forget to watch the video,..dope..

tracks;

1 Amour et souvenir
2 Etoula
3 Bolingo
4 Super K
5 Kelele

Anything you like on this sampler ?
Use our search-bar for instant find.

tracks;

1 Robson Banda and the New Black Eagles – Ngoma ngairire
2 The Dark City Sisters – Tamatie yoyo no.3
3 Gétatchèw Kassa – Tezeta
4 Orchestre Lipua-Lipua – Kamale 1
5 Chief Stephen Osita Osadebe – Odinda nyuliba
6 The Ethiopians – Hong Kong flu
7 Le Grand Kalle, Don Gonzalo, Manu Dibango – Africa Boogaloo
8 The Four Brothers – Pahukama
9 Kyeremateng Stars – Mesu mefre nyame
10 Daniel Owino Misiani and Shirati Jazz – Joshirati Misiani
11 Mighty Duke – What is Calypso
12 Monguito – Pasito tun tun
13 Franco et l’Orchestre Tpok Jazz – Da da de tu amor
14 Guillermo Portabales y sus guitarras – oye mi son
15 Jonah Moyo and Devera Ngwena – Masvingo ne carpet
16 Tata Bambo Kouyate – Banga diabate
17 Puseletso Seema & Tau ea Linare – Bajoetse saki

It must have been somewhere early 2006, a close friend introduced
Loronix to me, the first music-blog I learned about. I was sold right away,
when I found out how it worked blogging took over a part of my life.
Every morning I browsed through a load of blogs and always started
with Loronix. What would Zecalouro have for us today ? Any samba ?
I got totally hooked. When I visited relatives in Rio de Janeiro in february
2007, I could not resist to cantact Zecalouro. On tuesday february 27th
we went on a small city trip. I picked him up at his home and we went
to some of the recordshops he used to frequent and had lunch in a ‘Comida
a Kilo’ restaurant. We talked a lot about music and had a wonderful afternoon.

Zecalouro had really infected me with this blog-virus, no serious, he inspired
me so much, in may 2008 I could not keep it anymore, the birth of the
Global Groove was a fact and I still hold Zeca responsible for that..

As many of you know, Loronix is off the air for more then 2 years now.
Untill today nobody knew why and what happened to Zecalouro. I had also
failed to get in contact and did not know what was going on. Last week I
had the idea of making this tribute and gave it another try to reach him.
Due to health matters Zecalouro was forced to stop his once so popular
music-blog. I had a brief contact with him. Fortunately he is doing much
better now, working as a musician as he once did before.
His life, his blog, his decision..

I dedicate this compilation, fully inspired by himself, to Zecalouro and Loronix !
I respect your choice in life Zeca, however, Loronix was of such richness in
Brazillian music, it will be sadly missed till eternity.. que saudade..

tracks;

1 Anna Lucia – Cheiro de saudade
2 Elizeth Cardoso – Quem sou eu
3 Moacyr Silva – La barca
4 Alberto Mota e seu Conjunto – Samba toff
5 Thelma Soares – Samba do carioca
6 Batatinha – Fora do meu samba
7 Lais – Patinho feio
8 Angela Maria – Quando a noite vem
9 Ed Lincoln – The blues walk
10 Bossa Trés – Menina feia
11 Marilia Medalha – Pressentimento
12 Billy Blanco – Camelo
13 Manoel Conceição – Disse me disse
14 Sergio Mendes & Brasil ’66 – So nice
15 Walter Wanderley – Telefone
16 Astrud Gilberto – Baião
17 Dóris Monteiro – Meu refrão
18 Meireilles & Os Copa 7 – Sombrero sam
19 Luiz Bonfá – Sambolero
20 Sergio Mendes & Brasil ’65 – O morro
21 Wanda Sá – Aruanda
22 João Roberto Kelly & Luis Reis – Cara de pau

I received a request for more City Boys Band. This one has
a life behind him, it’s a bit crackly but still. Finding albums
like this is getting harder all the time so we must take it as
it is. I do not experience it as disturbing and we don’t have any
audio-fanatics here. In short, enjoy this old slice of vinyl…

tracks;

1 Ankwanobi
2 Agyanka mmobro
3 Medi anwomawuo
( medley )

It’s one of those albums you were always wondering about.
We’ve seen it at the backsleeves of other Sonafric LP’s.
Can you imagine how it feels to find it in a big pile at the fair ?
YES !, ooops..now don’t react too happy, the price will go up so,
oh ehh.. okay ehh.. I’ll take this one as well.. ahem.. a little later
euphoric feeling I can’t describe. Today it comes your way, get
to it and share with the other happy groovers around the globe.

tracks;

1 Bunga
2 Tuna bango
3 Mama ya makambo
4 Samayel

His name is ‘Monguito el Único’ and that’s exactly what he is.
I do’nt know a second singer with a voice like his. Look who
Monguito braught with him here; piano – Alfredo Valdez, bass-
Edy Gugua, trumpet – Bomberito Zarzuela, sax & flute – Mario
Rivera, trombone – Billy Hojasi, drums – Manny Ramos, trez –
José Garcia, conga – Marcelino Valdez, violin – Pupi Lagarreta,
Produced by Aboudou Lassissi for Sacodis, Cote d’Ivoire.

tracks;

1 Alto songo
2 Guajira something
3 Leevalo pal ring
4 En el monte
5 Echale candela
6 La pasion

An absolut magnificent find is this rare collector. It contains
a fine example of a Pierre Moutouari song from the seventies.
Track no.6 was from his hand. The album is filled with songs
that make my heart beat faster, make up your own mind.
It also appeared as Pathé Marconi / EMI 2 ( C054-15106 )

tracks;

1 Franco et l’Orchestre OK Jazz – Nazangi muana
2 Orchestre Mando-Negro – Voiture ya occasion
3 Orchestre Sinza – Julienne na ponton
4 Orchestre Hi-Fives – Mwana wa mraka
5 Orchestre Les Bantous – Pitié
6 Orchestre Sinza – Ma loukoula
7 Orchestre Hi-Fives – l’Amour est aveugle
8 Orchestre Sinza – Teti bolingo
9 Orchestre Hi-Fives – Nichukuwe twende kwako
10 Orchestre Hi-Fives – Ba kibushi batano na kenya

The African Brothers had a song with the same title,
‘Owuo aye me bi’. If it’s written by them or by the great
Alex Konadu, I do not know. One way or the other, nice
song. I am very happy to be able to present you another
LP by this wonderful Ghanaian artist, listen to Alex Konadu.

lead vocal – Alex Konadu ( One man thousand )
vocals – Collins Marfo, Barfo Kyei
lead guitar – Collins Marfo
guitar – Elder Osei Bonsu
bass guitar – Maringe
organ – Kwadwo Akwaboa Junior
maracas – Kadido
drums – Yaw Donkor
conga – K. Tawia

tracks;

1 Owuo aye me bi
2 Wanim asaman wo
3 Akwadaa wesewa ( medley )

Last friday we had us another recordfair here in Utrecht.
I went out there and found quite some wonderful LP’s you’re
gonna see passing by in the near future. Now I found out
something I want to share with you groovers. Do you
remember this great Franco LP, ‘Editions Populaires 10e
Anniversaire 1965-1975’ ? From the very beginning I tried
to remove the two annoying little jumps in the first song; ‘Cinq
ans ekoki’. For years I had been thinking that the two disturbing
jumps were from my copy only. I went out searching on the world
wide web but found only copy’s with the same disturbing two tics.
It may sound silly but because of this I thought the whole world
was listening to my copy, every time I found it somewhere, it had
the same two jumps again. Last friday at the fair, I found the album
again and bought it for 15 euro’s thinking I now finally had a clean copy
of the song I like so much. What the heck, it has the same two little
annoying jumps. So, my fellow collectors, it’s now finally clear,
‘african 360.081’ contains a recording of which probably is NO
clean version available. I ask you, is there anybody out there who
has a clean version of ‘Cinq ans ekoki’ without a jump in the brrrrrr-part
and in the bla bla bla-part ? I like the song so much, I wanted to use it
in some compilation long time already but never did it because of the
disturbance.( oh, I did, sorry ) Please somebody, give us a clean copy…!

tracks;

1 Cinq ans Ekoki
2 Salongo alinga mosala
3 Votez vert
4 Epublique du Zaire
5 Tolanda nzela moko
6 Ba depute mbilinga-mbilinga toboyi
7 Belela authenticite na congres ya mpr 1er
8 Belela authenticite na congres ya mpr 2e