Martinho da Vila e seus Amigos do Partido Alto
Nem Todo Crioulo é Doido, Disc News 1968
Listening to Samba is something one has to learn. I always compare
it with eating olives or drinking Belgian beer. The first time you
think; Ooof this is quite different, second time it is already getting
a little better and third time you really start to like it.
One way or another, for me there’s no way back, hooked for life.
This LP is a quite rare one, I never saw it untill I found it
this week. It contains tracks that represent several samba schools
in Rio de Janeiro. We have Martinho and Antônio Grande from Vila Isabel,
Anália from Império Serrano, Mário from Tijuca, Zuzuca from Salgueiro,
Darcy Monteiro from Mangueira and Cabana from Portela. Hope you like it.
This is Samba as pure as it gets.
tracks;
1 Martinho da Vila – Pra que dinheiro ?
2 Mário – De fevereiro a fevereiro
3 Anália – Só deus
4 Martinho da Vila – Deixa serenar
5 Zuzuca – Tristeza de malandro
6 Cabana – Nem todo crioulo é doido
7 Brasil Ritmo 67 – Ritmo
8 Darcy Monteiro – Sou de opinião
9 Martinho da Vila – Se eu errei…
10 Antônio – Sinfonia do mosquito
11 Martinho da Vila – Querer époder
12 Anália – Berço do samba
13 Antônio Grande – Quem lhe disse ?
Maïka – Seben à Gogo, Radio Rivage 1983
He was born in Zaïre in a musical family and inherited his talent from
his father. Maïka started his career age 16 playing a guitar he had from
his older brother. He was noticed by Tabu Ley and played with the
great Orchestre Afrisa International for 6 years. This LP was made
under supervision of Abel Lima who rediscovered Maïka.
Dance away with ‘Seben à Gogo’.
tracks
1 Kebisa nzoto
2 Daïna
3 Mwanaume
4 Melia
5 Beta wa maya
Super Sambas vol. 1 – Various Artists, OKeh 1973
This Samba collector on OKeh Records is a project with the artistic
leadership of Zuzuca on 8 out of 12 tracks. He sings on two tracks,
#2 and #10. The sound of 1973, Rio de Janeiro, can you imagine how
different from now it must have been. This LP has been quite
commercial in those days but today it has another value, a nostalgic
one. I am very exited with this find, enjoy Super Samba vol. 1 !
tracks;
1 Samba 4 – Tarde de verão
2 Zuzuca – Assim que é a lua
3 Baianinho – História de um preto velho
4 Os Geniais – O serrote
5 Os Bambas – Deboches
6 5 Só – O pinto piou
7 Os Geniais – Tira meu nome da boca do sapo
8 Baianinho – Mágoa
9 Samba 4 – Foi assim
10 Zuzuca – Reza forte
11 5 Só – Batida de côco não é de limão
12 Os Bambas – Desafio
Tele-Jazz de Telemele – La Fete au Foutah,Editions Syliphone Conakry 1980
On the mighty Editions Syliphone Conakry de la République de Guinée,
we’ve got us an LP by Tele-Jazz de Telemele. I really can’t tell you
anything usefull about them, just go listen and enjoy.
tracks;
1 Midho flaama
2 Beere modya
3 Ko tooli
4 Dyarama
5 Dyamaa
6 Mi lumbay dyooni
Alhaja Queen Salawa Abeni and her Waka Moderniser -We are the Children, Kollington Records 1989
To continue we have us an album by Alhaja Queen Salawa Abeni, she
was the one with two requests so here she is. Salawa has a full and
strong voice, surrounded by all those drums this sounds fabulous.
Rare Nigerian material you don’t get to hear every day, check it
and stay tuned, there’s some great stuff yet to follow.
tracks;
1 Ere lawa se
– Awa ni omode olorin
– Kosi ibi t’odabi ile
– K’eya ba mi lo ijesha
– B’araiye ngbogun
2 Oba ayeraiye
– Egbade f’alade
– Eje k’ajo jo
– Late Alhaji Taoreed Abedigba
– Owo pelu-omo
– Ise ori ranmi
Zuzuca – O Bom Sambista, OKeh 1972
Gente, hoje sou feliz pa’caramba. O sorte que eu tenho, não é molhe não.
Olhe o que achei, um pedaço de ouro que te vai fazer doido. Abaixe rapido.
Look what I found today. On my never ending search for records I went to
a town I don’t visit frequently and got real lucky. The score is so nice I
hardly know where to start. I found some samba albums on the OKeh label,
a branch of CBS, of which the first post. Three albums on the
Romanian ‘Electrecord’ label, some Discos Fuentes from Colombia, some great
LP’s on Syliphone, Eddy’Son, just super and you can share that luck with me.
Tell me what to post next, and most wanted goes first.
There’s also some Choc Stars, Fuji with a female singer called Salawa Abeni,
Docteur Nico, Jonah Moyo and Pamelo Mounk’a. Coupé Cloué or Lisandro Meza.
Now about this album, when I saw Zuzuca between those LP’s I had a shiver
going down my spine. An album like this doesn’t show up every day and I realised
immediately, we’ve got something special here. OKeh stands for topnotch samba
and I didn’t need more then one listen to know I struck gold. This is one of
the best samba LP’s I have ever heard. No less then 14 tracks, one
even better than the other. The pile of OKeh’s counts one other Zuzuca
and 4 samba collectors, plain fantastic !
Vamos a Sambar a noite inteira !
tracks;
1 Sou batuqueiro sim
2 Eu nasci na Roça
3 O trem
4 Meu drama
5 Você pode partir
6 Folia de reis
7 A dança do Cafuné
8 Areia, areia
9 Tristeza de um sambista
10 Foi no carnaval
11 Sofro demais
12 Soturno
13 Bôko môko
14 Pagode do compadre
Maria Tanase – Maria Tanase III, Electrecord 1984
If you like Romanian ‘Lautari’, this one is for you.
This album was released in 1984, the recordings must be
much older though, she passed away in 1963, not even 50 years old.
I do not understand Romanian but this music is beautiful,
even without knowing what it means she sings, I enjoy Maria Tanase’s
warm voice. For your relaxed sunday afternoon.
tracks;
1 Lume, lume
2 Trei focuri ard pe lume
3 Un tigan avea o casa
4 Bade, din dragostea noastra
5 Valeleu
6 Hai maica, la iarmaroc
7 Pe deal pe la cornatel
8 Zise muma catre mine
9 Nici acela nu-i fecior
10 Nu vine mindru, nu vine
11 Trenule, masina mica
12 Doina din dolj
13 Cite mute, cite slute
14 Am avut trei mindrulite
Oriental Brothers International led by G.Kabaka Opara,Afrodisia 1976
This 33 year old album has an almost invisible cover, it wobbles and
whirls and wanders about ’cause the hole is not in the middle. Still,
even while sometimes false, a good listen worth. Sweet
highlife by the Oriental Brothers.
tracks;
1 Murtala Mohammed
2 Nkwa pt. 1
3 Nwoke ezu-ike
4 Ndidi
Franco présente Le Prince Youlou et le T.P. O.K. Jazz
Edipop 1981
The past three days have been quite good if I see that the GG had
some 5300 pageloads, over 2600 visitors and 315 downloads. Let’s see
how Youlou Mabiala does. Youlou enjoys great popularity and
has a beautiful voice. I have read Youlou suffered from some kind of stroke
while performing on stage in Congo last year. His left side was paralised
en could not speak. Meanwhile he’s been doing a little better, let’s wish
him all the best. Enjoy listening to Franco’s son in law.
tracks;
1 Mwana bitendi
2 Libaku ya monoko
3 Ilumbe
4 Fafy
Ramito – Amor y Patria, Ansonia 1980
From Puerto Rico we have an album by the great ‘Ramito’.
His full name is Morales Ramos and he was one of the last to bring
a simple string-based Jibaro sound. His love for Puerto Rico, his ‘patria’,
( motherland ) is a favourite theme on practically all his albums.
tracks;
1 El plato del dia
2 Soy el canario
3 Sospiros y dolamas
4 Amor y patria
5 El dia en que yo muera
6 El cantar de Puerto Rico
7 A Luis Muñoz Marin
8 Guerra contra los Pidiones
9 Ya amanecio
10 Campeando por su respeto
OK Jazz – Authenticité vol. 5, african 1977
Yesterday, when I was ripping this here album, I found out it was
released under a different name too. It is the same one as this_one .
The photo on ‘Grands Succes’ is from much later then 1977 if I’m not
mistaking, so this one should be older logically. Anyway, it’s an
outstanding LP so I don’t mind posting it again, enjoy it once more.
tracks;
1 Matata ya muasi na mobali ekoki kosila te 1&2
2 Radio Trottoir 1&2
3 Oko rgretter ngai mama 1&2
4 Mace 1&2
5 Bandeko na ya mibali basundoli ngai 1&2
6 Moleka 1&2
Chief Commander Ebenezer Obey and his Inter-Reformers Band -Immortality, Special Tribute to the Late Chief Obafemi Awolowo,Obey 1987
Another Tribute album in juju style today. Chief Commander Ebenezer
brings it to the late Chief Obafemi Awolowo. Ebenezer flirts with
western influences on this LP and calls it ‘Miliki Sound’.
Extremely nice talking drums, sweeet juju.
tracks;
1 Tribute to the late Chief Obafemi Awolowo
2 Enia ti mo feran ju
– Wa sun laiya mi
– Abanije eku ofo
– Ara yin le nda loro
– Oke kan ga joke
– Jesu ni mo fehinti
African Brothers International Band of Ghana – Me Poma, Agya Pa Ye 1984
Over one year ago, in july 2008, I already posted ‘Me_Poma’. It was the
Stern’s European release of this album. I bought it back in 1984 and played
it eversince. About 6 months ago I found this original. It sounds a bit
rougher then the one I knew and it contains one track less. From this copy we
learn it was written and arranged by ‘Nana Kwame Ampadu I’. I always loved
Me Poma so another posting seems absolutely justified, enjoy.
tracks;
1 Me poma
2 Nnonko
3 Yeme bereo
4 Gye mani
Sunny Adé and his African Beats – Late General
Ramat Murtala Mohammed, Sunny Alade Records 1976
Here’s a piece of Yoruba Juju History, a Sunny Adé from 1976.
To my humble opinion one of the better albums. Unfortunately
it has some pops and crakcle, I guess it is worth at least a
couple of spins though. Get it and spread it ..
Hier is een plaatje met wat Yoruba Juju historie met Sunny
Adé uit 1976. Ik denk zelf één van zijn betere albums. Hij
heeft wel wat plopjes en kraakjes maar is het toch waard om
op z’n minst enkele keren te draaien naar mijn mening.
Pak hem, luister en geef door aan je vrienden ..
tracks;
1 Late General Murtala Muhammed
– Afemi afemi
– Asa nke
2 Ominu Nkomi
– Ika to to simu
– Odofin bello
– Mo beru agba