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

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

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

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

This album could not remain absent here, although
posted on other blogs before I could not resist. With
the T.P. O.K. Jazz, Nguashi Ntimbo shines bright
like a star. Listen to sweet Manguta..

tracks;

1 Manguta
2 Mzazi
3 Bolingo ya sens unique
4 Cheri ago (Ntimbo)

Tonight, my fellow groovers, I am asking for your help on
a matter. While recording this LP I discovered a mistake.
Track 4 is obviously ‘Aziza’ instead of track 3. I am assuming
the titles on side-b have been switched around but I’m not 100 %
sure. Track 1 is titled correctly to my opinion, I think to hear the
name in the music. Maybe track 2 and track 3 are still wrong.
Can you give us your view on the case ? Good,
than we can sit and enjoy these four
jiving songs, check…

tracks;

1 Lukoli
2 Awela-awela
3 Decca
4 Aziza

After having music from Zimbabwe, Zambia and Nigeria,
we’ll close the month with a Congolese post. Wuta
May comes in at the GG accompanied by l’Ensemble
Bongo-Rama, the album doesn’t give any further information.
Just take it from me, you don’t wanna miss this one, get
to it. Turn up the volume, kick aside funiture and let go…

tracks;

1 Tshitsha ya mama
2 Adieu mes parents
3 Nzoto na mota la ka
4 Tikaba coin

Originally registered on Éditions Isa, Zaïre, this is a true
beauty. As ‘african 360.127’ it was released in 1979, the
recordings must be a bit older though. Four wonderful songs
with his Orchestre Afrisa International, listen to Rochereau..

tracks;

1 Lisaso
2 Madia
3 Nzenze motema
4 Mere ando

Let’s do another one by these guys. Zaïko Langa-Langa
is represented by quite some LP’s already here but we
can’t have them enough.

tracks;

1 S.V.P. Mbey
2 Mathi ya ilo
3 Mupepa somo
4 Paiement cash