If I try to find this in the Rough Guide on latin and such,
there’s not any information. ‘Parranda’ music from Colombia
seems absent in the guide. They speak of parranda from
Venezuela and other countries but no Colombia. Bovea
and his Vallenatos are well known for their acoustic
interpretations of cumbias, merengues, paseos and
parranda. This lp from 1973 on ‘Discomoda’ gives
us some fine examples of their work. Guillermo
Buitrago, Hermanos Bedoya and Gildardo
Montoya, all soon to come..

tracks;

1 La media luna
2 La desobediente
3 Tu no vales nada
4 Mi pollito colorao
5 La hamaca grande
6 Consuelito
7 La basurita
8 Mi amor de claudia
9 El pajarito de mi novia
10 La muerte de abel antonio
11 Nely
12 Mi ligia amada

It is not blues, born in the late twenties, squeezebox,
rubboard and French lyrics, we’re talking of Zydeco. The
king of zydeco is Clifton Chenier, he shaped the sound
into this great party music, very happy and irresistible.
Check out this 1977 album on Arhoolie Records, Clifton
Chenier and his Red Hot Louisiana Band..

tracks;

1 Grand prix
2 Hungry man blues
3 Parti de paris
4 Take off your dress
5 Paty down ( at the blue angel club )
6 Falksy girl
7 Easy, easy baby
8 Tante na na
9 Do right sometime
10 Highway blues

Such a shame I’m not in the opportunity to hunt for samba,
my country does not offer much and Brazil is not around the
corner. Every now and then I go through my collection and
check on items I haven’t posted yet, this Bezerra da Silva
for instance was waiting for it’s turn to get digitized and
today that finally happened. Bezerra’s music is always
critical of the social structure and full of funny lyrics.
Check his other lp’s we posted by using our
search-bar, there’s a bunch of them
waiting if you like..

tracks;

1 Fofoqueiro é a imagem do cão
2 Partideiro indigesto
3 São murungar
4 O dr. está na sua capturação
5 Meu pai é genral de umbanda
6 Justiça social
7 Na hora da dura
8 Ilha grande
9 A semente
10 As favelas que não exaltei
11 Preconceito de cor
12 Um comédia nas paradas

I was in doubt for a while, the quality of this lp is not that
good, but untill I find a better specimen we’ll have to settle
with this one. It has some pops and sh*t but still.. the songs
about Franco send shivers down my spine. The group he
left behind didn’t vanish with ‘le grand maître’ but kept
making the music that used to be his life..
Madilu, Djo M’poy, N’dombe Opetum,
Josky and Simaro, all present
with the TP OK Jazz.

tracks;

1 Eau bénite
2 Hommage a luambo-makiadi
3 Ladji-mundele
4 Jacquina
5 Pot pourri
6 Franco luambo

Quite some time ago, when still working with the old page,
I already posted this one. I don’t remember exactly why it
was removed in a later stage. Anyway, I thought it would
be good to make it available again. Such wonderful music
should be accessible so here it is once more, enjoy…

tracks;

1 Julie la petite
2 Serge
3 Ciska
4 Molema
5 Venus
6 Chama cha mapinduzi
7 Pele odidja
8 Amba
9 Jolie Africa
10 Suki pembe somo somo

On popular demand we’ve got us a classic album by
four of the most prominent Congolese artists. It wasn’t
posted here yet so good idea Mouhamadou. Singers
Nyboma and Wuta-May formed this group with guitar
greats Syran Mbenza and Bopol Mansiamina. delicious
Congolese sounds and voices you don’t want to miss.

tracks;

1 Mayi
2 Mama-iye-ye
3 Zouzou
4 Maquereau

I received a message saying, this lp also disappeared
from the global groove. I dived into it and found it’s true.
So, no problem, we’ll bring it again, and this time it’s
here to stay. Some of the sweetest Congolese songs
from the fifties, Enjoy them once again..

..if anyone finds any other lp missing,
leave me a message and I’ll restore it..
thanks,

tracks;

1 Roitelet et Roger – Banga imana
2 Roitelet et Roger – Imana ya daring
3 Victor et Roger – Bolingo esuki
4 Marcelle Fylla – Pusana moke
5 Victor et Roger – Kobanga te
6 Victor, Roger & Franco – Josephine
7 Les Trois Caballeros – Antoinette
8 Roitelet et les coeurs CEFA – Tozo na Bozo
9 Salvador – E ya yo nlala
10 Salvador – E ndumba sakuba wata

Hello good evening, are you somewhere close ?
Come to Amsterdam and do some dancing tonight.
Scroll back and see where…. for this moment I’ve
got Colombian candy waiting for ya. Colacho Mendoza
appears with Los Inseparables today, vallenato with
strings and squeezebox this time, enjoy..

tracks;

1 La divina pastora
2 Alma bohemia
3 Romance campesino
4 Que te dijo el rio
5 Canitas al aire
6 Muchachita vallenata
7 Lo que soy por amor
8 Tierra sanjuanera
9 Tina villason
10 Beatriz elena

Hello, welcome back at the GG, today we’re catching up
with the music of Nigeria. We haven’t seen any since the
launch of the new page yet. On this particular album,
Ikenga Super Stars of Africa bring a tribute to the late and
great Celestine Ukwu. I think it sounds fresh and clean
and it makes a swell contribution to our Nigerian archive.
The album was originally released in 1977 but this one
is a re-release from 1981. Only two tracks but they’re
not to be missed, give’m a spin or two and agree..
Get it and spread it as usual.

tracks;

1 Late celestine ukwu special
2 Ego di nogwu

Here’s another lp by the black chinese. Obuoba J.A. Adofo
and his City boys were here a few times before and gained
quite an audiance. They are one of the most popular guitar
driven highlife groups of the era together with among others,
Nana Ampadu and the African Brothers, the Ashanti Bros.
and Alex Konadu’s band. The lp’s got a couple of scratches
but not too serious, it’s a recommender all together..

tracks;

1 Sikyi Medley;
– Merefre no
– Na mese odo mmra
– Yee naa
– Kesewa
– Yaw donko owora
– So wo tuo mu
2 Adenkum Medley
– Nnonko odede
– Mene wo beko man bi
– Babi a mewu
– Bonini abena
– Mede ama onyame

Last night’s closing party of the Amsterdam World Cinema
event was real nice. In a causy small cinema bar we had
a world dance evening with great atmosphere. I was happy
to meet with some of our blog’s loyal visitors and party
together. If you can make it to next saturday’s party would
be very nice. We’ll have an evening with lots of African,
Brazillian, Cuban, Colombian and several caribbean styles.
”Movimento Tropicano”
It is at the Amstelveenseweg 23, Bar São Paulo..
in Amsterdam. If you can, drop by and dance
with us all evening from about 22.00 till 3.00
hours, be there Saturday August the 30th..
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