I’m so happy to have this crazed hobby. Every time I learn
something new, like here. When my dear fellow blogger
Nauma at Freedomblues posted The Victoria Kings last week
with ‘the Mighty Kings of Benga’, I got excited, I didn’t know them
yet and I just love that Benga sound. Thank you ever so much Nauma.
Then, when I was browsing the fair last friday I found some fantastic
Kenyan stuff. Always nice to be able to return the favor. Here’s the
first volume of ‘Kenya Partout !’, I found it with a couple of others.
It contains some of that 70’s benga by the hottest bands.
Get under this freedom global blues groove,..wow…
Already made it when I found out Africolombia’s blog
posted 4 tracks in october, well,
here’s the whole thing.

tracks;

1 Kit Mikayi Cisco Jazz – Buthwa gi nyigem
2 Victoria Jazz Band – Sister Jack
3 International de Nelly – Ruoth meda teko
4 D.O. 7 Band – Charles Kibeche
5 Victoria Jazz Band – Samwel Otumba
6 Kit Mikayi Cisco Jazz – Taberius gi matha
7 Victoria Jazz Band – Jery Ouma
8 D.O. 7 Band – H.O. Ochiri
9 International de Nelly – Ohon wanyang
10 D.O. 7 Band – Perez Owino

Daniel Owino Misiani was the leading figure in Benga from
West Kenya. This 1989 album was direkt metal mastered
from digital tapes and sounds just maginificent. Click on the
backsleeve to read further useful information and enjoy the Benga !

tracks;

1 Isabella Muga
2 Rose Akoth
3 Margret Odero
4 Piny ose mer
5 Nakuru bor
6 Otieno Anyango
7 Wouth iye tek
8 Dora mamy

Guitar driven hot hot stuff with astonishing rhythms.
The lyrics are sung in Swahili, this group is one that holds on
to the old Kenyan values. Kakai Kilonzo and his Kilimambogo Brothers
Band are here to make you dance across the place till you drop.

tracks;

1 Baba mkwe pt. 1
2 Simba Africa
3 Mongeli
4 Baba nipe mali
5 Wakumbuke wazazi
6 Kithetheesyo kimuka
7 August one
8 Shangila christmas pt. 1

From 1977 comes this album by les Mangelepa, a Congolese band
that operated in Kenya. To give you some decent information I’d better
redirect you to muzikifan .
As you may have seen I started a little enquete to see what lives most
among our visitors, it runs untill the 6th of may when the page has it’s two
year anniversary. Thanks for participating. Meantime we’re gonna do some
dancing with Orchestre Les Mangelepa, hope u enjoy.

tracks;

1 Mangelepa kamili
2 Sakina
3 Nganga-kimetu
4 Ekubuku

Benga Blast ! Kenya’s Hottest Sound, Oh yes, most certainly.
Daniel Owino Misiani and Shirati Band rocked Africa through
the eighties with earth-shattering bass, bubbling and stinging
guitars, strong vocals and totally compulsive rhythms. The whole
topped with sharp witty lyrics. Backsleeve states the following;
WARNING,
BENGA BLAST CAN DEMOLISH WEAK STRUCTURES!

tracks;

1 Joshirati Misiani ( Shirati and Misiani )
2 Safari Tanzania ( visit to Tanzania )
3 Wuoro monono ( Greed is useless )
4 Dr. J. Abuya
5 Honourable Horace Owiti Ongili
6 Agnes Nyashirati ( Agnes, Shirati’s friend )
7 Alice Atieno
8 Okoth Atari ( Okoth is supercool )

In today’s post we visit an African country we haven’t seen
much at the GG. One LP by Abana Ba Nasery some time
ago but this is ‘Benga’. D.O. Misiani is one of the pioneers
who transferred the old acoustic style to electric and
added bass and drum to it. The benga hype started late 60’s and went
on all through the 70’s. A benga lover once said;” Benga is a feeling you
get when dancing. Your body has weakened when you dance, because you
are happy. It is not weak because you are tired, but because you are dancing
the best you can.” ‘My life and loves’ is the name of this LP and features
10 dynamite tracks by the master, dance away on Misiani’s benga !

tracks;

1 Sweetie I love you
2 Sister Mary Lucy
3 Susana Wacha Maringo
4 Helen Nya Kisungu
5 Lala Salama
6 J. Rabour Bade Dongo
7 J. Rabour Bade Dongo part 2
8 Tafadhali Nikuone
9 Tafadhali Nikuone part 2
10 Amuka Salama

Another Lp by the great Ikenga, some time ago we had an album
by them without title too. These guys are completely cool, such
hypnotic highlife. The Ikenga Super Stars of Africa, led by Victor
Okoroego, weigh in here with a funky slice of Ikwokilikwo. The
Ikengas were born in 1973 as “The Nkengas” when they split from
bandleader Osita Osadebe, in the process read_more

tracks;

1 Ikenga go marry me
2 Ikenga in Africa

From today we’ll have us a brand new American president.
Barack Obama has his roots in Kenya so I thought it would
be appropriate to post some Kenyan music today.
Abana Ba Nasery was a succesful trio from Bunyore, they
made their sweet but primitive sound, using only two
acoustic guitars and a Fanta bottle. The rhythm was created
by scraping the ribs of the bottle with a metal rod. When this
LP was made the recordings were already 30 years old.
I wonder if Obama speaks some Swahili too, in any case
this is great music. Listen to the Roots of Obama.

tracks;

1 Atisa wangu
2 Khwatsia ebunangwe
3 Servanus andai
4 Nilimwacha muke risavu
5 Mapenzi kama karata
6 Noah Libuko
7 Omukhana meri
8 Abasiratsi muhulire
9 Ndakhomela
10 Ebijana bie bubayi
11 Mushalo ebutula|
12 Rosey wangu