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

By the look at it’s sleeve one would say it’s the cover
of a children’s book. Don’t be misled however, the music
on this LP is for the whole family. Wonderful mid-seventies
stuff I wish we had in our hitparade in those days. Succes
guaranteed on your dance-floor. Listen to Kenya Hit-Parade !
…damn,..I jus’ love dis.., volumes up !

tracks;

1 Orchestre Sega Sega – Dala ber moloyo No.11
2 Kawere Boys – William ogembo No.3
3 Gem Dudi Band – Barack ayieye
4 Victoria Jazz Band “B” – Patrick ochieng
5 Orchestre Mandalala – Tika kotongo-1
6 Mori River Jazz Band – Ben maseke
7 Owila Lakeside Band – Margaret atieno
8 Shirati Luo Voice Jazz Band – Okoro kalila
9 Orchestre C.-K. Jazz – Pamela awino-pt.1
10 Orchestre Saka-Yonsa – Nabangi makambo-1

We heard him with Orchestre Sossa and with Orchestre
Sinza Kotoko. Pierre Moutouari and his brothers Michel
and Kosmos participated in quite some bands. It appears
he had been away for a while, well that’s history now.
This is ‘Le Grand Retour de Pierre Moutouari’.

tracks;

1 Missengue
2 Vévé
3 Kibangou
4 Julienne

In 1984, this was the first LP on which Eddie Palmieri
worked with only Puerto Rican musicians. A little salsa
for a change can’t hurt. It will make your lazy asses move
around like crazy, better be sure before you download …

tracks;

1 Palo pá rumba
2 1983
3 Bomba de corazon
4 Bajo con tumbao
5 Prohibicion de salida
6 Pensando en ti
7 Venezuela

On Eddy Gustave’s great label, Eddy’Son Consortium
Mondial, we’ve seen quite some albums passing by.
Mostly wonderful productions with a great feel. Today’s
post is no exception, four songs by Youlou Mabiala
with his sandy ebony voice giving the full 100 % !

tracks;

1 Mofutela N’dako
2 100% de pourcentage
3 Zua ebimi maseke
4 Confiance

Get ready for some powerful soukous. Bopol is back
with this album of heavy dance material. Volumes up !

tracks;

1 Dienaba
2 Misere
3 Aida (instr.)
4 Aida
5 Yembele yembele
6 Djeneba

Want another LP of Nigerian highlife ? Oliver de Coque
is not the world’s greatest singer but his music has
a groove I absolutely dig. That much said, it would
deserve at least a couple of spins, two Mp3’s
of a tiny 20 minutes each, give it a go..

tracks;

1 Atutu gepu mpi ekwe gesiya ike
– Chukwu ekwena kifififele meayi
2 Klub nationale
– Egwu omenani

Gilles Sala was the man who compiled this LP for the Afrique Riviera
label. Tasteful and rich in variety as the title already suggests. I am
particularly fascinated by the likembe songs like tracks 2,7 and 16,
heavenly atmosheric sounds from the Congo with Jean Essous
on saxophone, but also the music of the Mingole brothers is a
discovery. My guess would be this stuff is from about 1972..what
would you say ? Get it and listen to this rare collector.

tracks;

1 Franklin Boukaka, ses Sanzas & son Orchestre Congolais – Les Brazzavilloises
2 Franklin Boukaka, ses Sanzas & son Orchestre Congolais – Yambi na bana poto
3 Tobbo Eitel – Mes trois femmes
4 Tobbo Eitel – Broda
5 Mondo Mingole – I like Africa
6 Mondo Mingole – Diboa lango na wolo
7 Franklin Boukaka, ses Sanzas & son Orchestre Congolais – Ba yemba Congo
8 Franklin Boukaka, ses Sanzas & son Orchestre Congolais – Pasi na komona
9 Gnonnas Pedro y sus Panchos de Cotonou – Faux temoin
10 Gnonnas Pedro y sus Panchos de Cotonou – Azian-vignin
11 Gnonnas Pedro y sus Panchos de Cotonou – Dadje von o von non
12 Gnonnas Pedro y sus Panchos de Cotonou – Sode lon lon yin
13 La Ferlo-Jazz de Dakar – Ninguem
14 Mondo et Claude Mingole – Londo lasu
15 Tobbo Eitel – Le pays de l’amour
16 Franklin Boukaka, ses Sanzas & son Orchestre Congolais – Kue tu kuenda