From 1986 we’ve got us this fine piece of highlife.
It just so happened I found this lp some two weeks
ago, coincidence that Paa Bobo died last week,
I received the news via two visitors. Thank you
Frank and Kwabena for keeping me informed.
How nice that we can still listen to him whenever
we want to, check this album and remember
Paa Bobo, Happy New Year y’all..

tracks;

1 Ehye wo bo
2 Odo nni ho
3 Odo na me ware no
4 Aba no sa

If you are going to have a newyear’s party, may I suggest
some hot 1989 dance material ? Diblo’s soukous jives like
no other, sparkling guitar work and bubbling basses, tight
rhythms, what else do you need ? His supergroup’s name,
‘Loketo’, means ‘move your hips’ in lingala and I promise,
that is something you won’t be able to avoid.
Get it and spread it …

tracks;

1 Super K
2 Etoula
3 Amour et souvenir
4 Bolinga
5 Kelele

Wow, now I come to realise, it is almost a year and a half
since I posted us some music from Mali. This one by the
great Super Rail Band will surely make up for that long
hiatus. It is a bit worn out and some noise is inevitable.
..dusty tracks, still, I really love to listen to it, it has
great atmosphere, with Mory Kante from 1977.
Hope you enjoy, get it
& spread it..

tracks;

1 Sinsimba
2 Balakononifing
3 Wale numa lombaliya
4 Tie diu guya

On Discos Fuentes we find this swell collector. It’s from
1974 and it has the traditional Fuentes pretty girls sleeve.
You may say, kinda cheap but I like’em a lot. Other than
that it contains some real jewels, another Angel Vásquez
song amongst others. Don’t miss it, Colombian gold..

tracks;

1 Andrés Landero – Muchachas cumbiamberas
2 A.M. Mejía – Lindo magdalena
3 César Castro – La cachuchona
4 Andrés Landero – La cigarrona
5 A. Lenes – Dos puntas
6 Eliseo Herrera – Cumbia saramuya
7 Don Fabián – Cumbia que te vas de ronda
8 Eliseo Herrera – La bonga
9 Pablo Flórez – Palo prieto
10 Angel Vásquez – Uuey ja
11 Ramón Vargas – La motilona
12 Duque Palomino – Cumbia de amores

Today’s contribution starts out a bit crackly but the noise
doesn’t bother much. Canadoes appear on RAS
from Nigeria, it is one of those Ghanaian highlife groups
that went there to get their stuff to sound different.
Two things, always nice to have a little puzzling to do,
label says it’s from 1981 and backsleeve says from 1982.
And then, front cover states it should be LIVE, but
it absolutely does not give me that impression,
what do you think ..?

tracks;

1 Enowaa ko hene
– Ayikoo dum
– Konsuo nanaa
2 Fine woman
3 Me nyame bra

1 Verckys – Seliba
2 Sparrow – Benwood dick
3 Yamoah’s Band – Asem sebe
4 Abelardo Barroso y la Sensación – Bruca maniguá
5 Orchestre du Bawobab – Senegaal sunugaal
6 Nguashi Ntimbo & l’Orchestre Sentima – Trop bon pt.1
7 Nguashi Ntimbo & l’Orchestre Sentima – Trop bon pt.2
8 Orchestre Conga Succes – Helena tuna mama bebe
9 Empire Bakuba – Mwana-gabon
10 African Brothers Band Int. – Me nye osansani
11 Le Peuple – Massavi fololo y’ africa
12 Duo Los Compadres – El gato y la gata

..know something, I’m getting tired of my own writing,..
it really sucks..I can’t tell you anything useful, don’t know
anything about the band,..just know what my ears tell me
..azucar, this vallenato is pure Colombian treasure..
..nothing else..I’ll shut up now, go listen..

tracks;

1 El picaflor
2 Corazon adolorido
3 El pobre no se endereza
4 Lluvia de amor
5 Zenaida
6 Enamorao con pena
7 Recuerdos
8 Pajaro sorprendido
9 Petronita
10 El regaño

tracks;

1 Bz mi dua na nie sae
2 Abua zni dua nyane na pra no tio
3 Sanka me wo adekye bi sen obia
4 Mede meho aba munye mami

Within one week we lost two Africans of great significance, first
Tabu Ley Rochereau, one of the most influential singers of the
continent and yesterday, Nelson Mandela, no need to explain
he was one of the most important African leaders.
Youssou N’dour made this ode to the great leader in 1985.

tracks;

1 Nelson Mandela
2 Moule moule
3 Samayaye
4 The rubberband man
5 N’dobine
6 Donkaasi gi
7 Wareff
8 Magninde

We find them all over the world, here in Amsterdam I heard them
for the first time when I was a little boy. It provides us with the
warmest sounds such as zydeco, forró, cumbia and like here,
in Haitian compas. I am talking about the accordeon off course.
This instrument practicly always turns a smile on my face, check
this lp by Les Vedettes d’Haiti, just what we need to warm
our autumn bones on a day like this.

tracks;

1 Ti po a
2 Marie marthe
3 Magie
4 Ti jeanne
5 Le mal existe
6 Photo copie