I received a request for more City Boys Band. This one has
a life behind him, it’s a bit crackly but still. Finding albums
like this is getting harder all the time so we must take it as
it is. I do not experience it as disturbing and we don’t have any
audio-fanatics here. In short, enjoy this old slice of vinyl…

tracks;

1 Ankwanobi
2 Agyanka mmobro
3 Medi anwomawuo
( medley )

It’s one of those albums you were always wondering about.
We’ve seen it at the backsleeves of other Sonafric LP’s.
Can you imagine how it feels to find it in a big pile at the fair ?
YES !, ooops..now don’t react too happy, the price will go up so,
oh ehh.. okay ehh.. I’ll take this one as well.. ahem.. a little later
euphoric feeling I can’t describe. Today it comes your way, get
to it and share with the other happy groovers around the globe.

tracks;

1 Bunga
2 Tuna bango
3 Mama ya makambo
4 Samayel

His name is ‘Monguito el Único’ and that’s exactly what he is.
I do’nt know a second singer with a voice like his. Look who
Monguito braught with him here; piano – Alfredo Valdez, bass-
Edy Gugua, trumpet – Bomberito Zarzuela, sax & flute – Mario
Rivera, trombone – Billy Hojasi, drums – Manny Ramos, trez –
José Garcia, conga – Marcelino Valdez, violin – Pupi Lagarreta,
Produced by Aboudou Lassissi for Sacodis, Cote d’Ivoire.

tracks;

1 Alto songo
2 Guajira something
3 Leevalo pal ring
4 En el monte
5 Echale candela
6 La pasion

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

The African Brothers had a song with the same title,
‘Owuo aye me bi’. If it’s written by them or by the great
Alex Konadu, I do not know. One way or the other, nice
song. I am very happy to be able to present you another
LP by this wonderful Ghanaian artist, listen to Alex Konadu.

lead vocal – Alex Konadu ( One man thousand )
vocals – Collins Marfo, Barfo Kyei
lead guitar – Collins Marfo
guitar – Elder Osei Bonsu
bass guitar – Maringe
organ – Kwadwo Akwaboa Junior
maracas – Kadido
drums – Yaw Donkor
conga – K. Tawia

tracks;

1 Owuo aye me bi
2 Wanim asaman wo
3 Akwadaa wesewa ( medley )

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

By the look at it’s sleeve one would say it’s the cover
of a children’s book. Don’t be misled however, the music
on this LP is for the whole family. Wonderful mid-seventies
stuff I wish we had in our hitparade in those days. Succes
guaranteed on your dance-floor. Listen to Kenya Hit-Parade !
…damn,..I jus’ love dis.., volumes up !

tracks;

1 Orchestre Sega Sega – Dala ber moloyo No.11
2 Kawere Boys – William ogembo No.3
3 Gem Dudi Band – Barack ayieye
4 Victoria Jazz Band “B” – Patrick ochieng
5 Orchestre Mandalala – Tika kotongo-1
6 Mori River Jazz Band – Ben maseke
7 Owila Lakeside Band – Margaret atieno
8 Shirati Luo Voice Jazz Band – Okoro kalila
9 Orchestre C.-K. Jazz – Pamela awino-pt.1
10 Orchestre Saka-Yonsa – Nabangi makambo-1

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

In 1984, this was the first LP on which Eddie Palmieri
worked with only Puerto Rican musicians. A little salsa
for a change can’t hurt. It will make your lazy asses move
around like crazy, better be sure before you download …

tracks;

1 Palo pá rumba
2 1983
3 Bomba de corazon
4 Bajo con tumbao
5 Prohibicion de salida
6 Pensando en ti
7 Venezuela

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