Calixto Ochoa and Lisandro Meza are two of my favourite
Colombian artists, on this 1969 record on Discos Fuentes
they appear with vallenatos from the annual Festival de la
Leyenda Vallenata. Marvelous songs from one to twelve.
You’re in charge but I warned you, it’s spicey material..

tracks;

01 – Calixto Ochoa – Rosarito
02 – Calixto Ochoa – Perdonemne padre
03 – Calixto Ochoa – La llanerita
04 – Calixto Ochoa – El mundo
05 – Calixto Ochoa – Alba cecilia
06 – Calixto Ochoa – El conquistador
07 – Lisandro Meza – Canta vallenato
08 – Lisandro Meza – Upa ja
09 – Lisandro Meza – Me mata mi maye
10 – Lisandro Meza – Cariñito de papel
11 – Lisandro Meza – Bailen merengue
12 – Lisandro Meza – Musa del canto

Good morning, how about some soukous to start up the week?
Kanda Bongo man is here first time with this 1981 slice of hot
African vinyl. With Diblo on guitar, what can go wrong? Listen
and make up your own mind, get & spread as usaual..

tracks;

01 – Iyole
02 – N’sambi-carol
03 – Amina
04 – Mazina

Hello people, today it’s time for another sampler.
Catching up with the present, just one year to go
this is volume 49 which contains a variety of styles
again. If you hear any to your liking, find the album
it comes from by using our search-bar, go get them.

tracks;

01 – Colacho Mendoza – Gota fria
02 – Rochereau & l’African Fiesta National – Gipsy
03 – Les Vedettes d’Haiti – Ti jeanne
04 – Alberto Montiel y su Conjunto – El picaflor
05 – Ramón Vargas – La motilona
06 – Diblo & Loketo – Super k
07 – Anibal Velasquez – El aguacero
08 – Ryco-Jazz – Bana biafra
09 – Genival Lacerda – O homem que tinha três pontinhos
10 – Orchestre Les Noirs – Mosasa ndembo
11 – Lord Melody – Wau, wau
12 – Franco, Vicky et Edo – Micorasson
13 – City Boys Band – Kwae anoma
14 – Les Docteurs du Rythme – Ce pas fot moin
15 – Keletigui et ses Tambourinis – Mande
16 – Les Bantous de la Capitale – Evolution merengue
17 – Thomas Mapfumo & the Blacks Unlimited – Temerina
18 – Lo Primero Conjunto Miramar – Chela

She is so famous that one tends to think the whole world
already has her music, but that isn’t the case off course.
Another lp my friend brought home from Cuba lately and
it’s one I didn’t have. I promised to post them so here is
the third he contributed. With Celia and la Sonora
Matancera you can’t go wrong, always top
quality latin music of which you can find
one other album on this blog, enjoy..
p.s. it makes me remember I saw
her in Utrecht Vredenburg,
january 1986 with Tito
Puente, check video..
( not Utrecht )

tracks;

01 – Tu voz
02 – Don palucha
03 – La jaibera
04 – Cañonazo
05 – Burundanga
06 – Yerberito moderno
07 – Cualquiera resbala y cae
08 – Guantanamera
09 – Mani tosta’o
10 – Ven bernabe

Changüí is a kind of salsa invented by the great Elio Reve.
We hear him on this 1987 album which was taken from Cuba
by my good friend René, thanks again buddy. Elio Reve and
his Orquesta Reve were the only group that played in this
typical style, that is as far as I’m aware of. If you know any
other group that plays changüí, please let us know. Mean
time let’s listen and enjoy this album and the ones we
posted in the past (3), have fun doing so..

tracks;

01 – Salgado
02 – No me cojan para eso
03 – Espero que pase el tiempo
04 – El palo de anon
05 – El ron pa’ despue’
06 – Injusta duda
07 – Ron pa ‘to’ el mundo
08 – Changüi clave

Okay, maybe I’m ahead of things, it isn’t even spring yet.
This is sultry summer night music, zippin’ on a smooth
cocktail with your honey at the terrace of your beach
villa.. dream on Moos..No serious, this is marvelous
dance material for your parties. With the great Déjean
brothers and Robert Martino on lead guitar, you can’t
miss, add Tuco’s drums and the voices of Raymond
Cajuste and Lionel Benjamin and off we go..check..

tracks;

01 – Joui la vie ou
02 – Grateur
03 – Ca kap pote
04 – Mr. Magic
05 – Tuco’s jam #3
06 – Honorez l’afrique

Alex Kwabena Konadu was born in 1950 at Adwumakase
Kese in the Kwabere no.3 district in Ashanti. He developed
a keen interest in music in his infant days when at school.
But as he could not join any band at that tender age, he
learnt to manipulate some of the musical instruments and
never missed watching the concert parties and dance bands
which visited his town to perform at the time. He completed
his elementary education in 1967. He did not persuit further,
but instead took to music as his profession. The first band
which he joined was the Akwaboah’s Band. He remained
with it for three years and then left to join the Happy Brothers
Band as the lead vocalist. While with this group he felt the
desire to be on his own and therefore left after two years stay.
Kwabena went ‘solo’ for sometime, composing and practising.
One day he invited Mr. A.K. Brobbey, a very popular records
dealer and an active producer to listen to his rehearsals.
Having listened to him, Mr. A.K. Brobbey a philantropist and
one of the producers who has the ability to spot talents and
to polish them up, saw that Konadu has the qualities to be
with the best when given the right directions. He therefore,
helped him to organise his present band and signed him on.
With this set of first class instruments and new group, Konadu
has this to say, “Many thanks to my manager and producer
A.K. Brobbey, we shall work hard to be with the first always.”

Unfortunately some idiot has been practising his autograph
all over the sleeve of this lp. Luckily he didn’t start on the
vinyl. The record plays quite well and the music sounds
absolutely great. One small issue though, Label and sleeve
do not agree about tracks 7 and 8. They switched them
around so I stuck with the label, which is also more
complete. If wrong let me know, thanks folks..

tracks;

01 – Nkrabea abebrese
02 – Mena mepe
03 – Yerenom bi
04 – Adada yi
05 – Eno abenaa
06 – Odum aye saa
07 – Enkyene anko nea yedi
08 – Barima yena

This sunday soulbrothers we’ve got an album by one
of the most influential singers in the field. Even his
weepies are different and breathe a certain coolness.
His work was an inspirational source for many to
follow. I am a fan, that’s for sure. Listen
to the great Don Covay, sweeet..
..and what a title, do you think
the ‘I’ thing refers to reggae
track ‘Memphis’ ?
I and I do..

tracks;

01 – Overtime man
02 – Leave him pt.1
03 – I stayed away too long
04 – I was checkin’ out, she was chenkin’ in
05 – Hold you to your promise
06 – Memphis
07 – The pinch hitters
08 – Somebody’s been enjoying my home
09 – Bad mouthing
10 – Leave him pt.2
11 – Money ( that’s what I want )
12 – Don’t step on a man when he’s down

Goodmorning, it is time for some cumbia, I suddenly realised the
style was being neglected somewhat. When posting Colombian,
lately I tend to turn to vallenato a bit more. No worries though,
we’ve got some of that stuff waiting to find it’s way to you.
Take this here album, a collector which contains some
of the hottest cumbias ever made, give it a spin..

tracks;

01 – Orquesta Nuñez – La samaria
02 – Los Corraleros – Canta majagualera
03 – Carlos Martelo y su Orquesta – No me desesperes
04 – Climaco Sarmiento – Conchita
05 – Cumbia en do menor
06 – Pedro Laza y sus Pelayeros
07 – Los Corraleros – Ritmo de colombia
08 – Orquesta de G.Gonzalez – Lupita
09 – Los Corraleros – La cumbia soba
10 – La Sonora Cordobesa – La negra caliente
11 – Los Corraleros – Llora acordeon
12 – Sexteto Panameño – Tungarara

Jerry Hansen and his Ramblers are back,
we had three albums so far,
one ,
two and
three.
Their highlife is one of a kind, perfect dancing music
for your weekend. This lp is from 1977, on Decca West
Africa, top sound quality, partly latin influenced,
west african gold..

tracks;

01 – Serwaa akoto
02 – Travel and see
03 – Ewa ha mi
04 – Pe aduro ye
05 – A divina me
06 – Devi tso do
07 – Eka ete
08 – Obi nnim nea onyame ahyehye
09 – High life medley