‘Elephant and dwarf’ they call them, Pepe Kalle and his little
stage dancing friend Emoro. This is one of Kishasa’s most
popular dance bands of the 80’s. The album was recorded in
Abidjan and contains fantastic dance material. Empire Bakuba
and Pepe Kalle are here to rock the place.

tracks;

1 Massassi calculé
2 O nager
3 Miss Africa
4 Nana Houphouet-Boigny

Track 12, Slide Mongoose, sounds very much like another well
known song. I first heard it as ‘All for you’ by E.T. Mensah,
being Highlife from Ghana. A couple of albums ago we heard Sami
Kamara from Sierra Leone doing it as ‘All for you tete’.
Mento, Calypso and Highlife are very much alike, and with this
song, Sugar Belly demonstrates that fact very nicely.
Although this album is on ‘Port-O-Jam’, we could say it is an
early ‘Studio One’ recording, Clement Coxone Dodd is the man
behind it all.

tracks;

1 Linstead market
2 Wings of a dove
3 River Ben come down
4 Land of sea and sun
5 Soldering
6 Jamaica farewell
7 Archie
8 Rucumbine
9 John Tom
10 Yellow bird
11 My pussin
12 Slide Mongoose

This cover is so beautiful, I could impossibly resist posting
one more Miguel Aceves Mejia. This one has two of the tracks
the previous one has aswell. ‘Serenata Huasteca’, which was damaged
is here oncemore in a complete version, and ‘El Jinete’.
Plenty of cracks and pops but still sweet.

tracks;

1 Ruega por nosotros
2 Siete leguas
3 El jinete
4 Que me toquen las golondrinas
5 Gorrioncito pecho amarillo
6 Vaya con dios
7 Escaleras de la carcel
8 Serenata huasteca

Good evening, it’s been a couple of days, I don’t remember
exactly how many. The largest hiatus untill today, anyway.
Duty called upon me and priority’s had to be taken.

Today, I felt like doing another Mexican 10″, one of the
9 EP’s I found on that recordfair in Utrecht, last November.
I am thrilled by Miguel’s sound, how he cries them ‘Ayayay’s’,
is just smashing. I’m a new fan. Unfortunately, the quality
of this old disc is not so well and I had to fade-intro track 5
because it got stuck. Although there’s a short piece missing in
the beginning now, it’s still worth spinning.
Cry out loud with ‘Miguel Aceves Mejia’, Ay Ay Ay !

tracks;

1 El jinete
2 Ella
3 Virgencita de Zapopan
4 Guitarras de media noche
5 Serenata Huasteca
6 Cuatro caminos
7 Tu recuerdo y yo
8 Camino de Guanajuato

Sierra Leone is a country of many languages, part from Creole,
wich is spoken in the capital Freetown and is based on ‘Pidgin
English’, there are also ‘Mende’ and ‘Timini’.
On this album by the Black Diamonds we hear all those languages.
Bandleader Sami Kamara claims that he invented the band’s name
when he thought he tripped over a rock that appeared to be a
Diamond. Great coverpicture, the ladies are singers and drummers
in the group. And how about Sami with his kazoo.

tracks;

1 Enjo ma
2 Tete
3 Omea kweke kawumbu
4 E hallah wye
5 Oda
6 Pom pom lolo
7 Kisiyade
8 Egun dide
9 Objetebe
10 Yu too wowo
11 Nadeo
12 Mina stranger

Hello Groovers around the Globe, I want to wish everybody
a fantastic new year with loads of nice music and lots of luck.
The winter in the Netherlands is doing it’s work properly
this year. It’s freezing a couple of degrees for several days now
and skatelovers are getting ready for the big race already.
When it keeps freezing we might get to the point, they can
ride the ‘Elfstedentocht’ ( eleven cities skate ride ). It only
happens once in twenty years or so and the real skate diehards
are getting all nervous these days.

When it’s so cold, I long for tropical temperatures and some Samba
always helps. This is the second LP by this group, Exporta Samba
is their name and I first met them through this album.
10 nice samba songs, uncomplicated and warm sounding, just what
we need on a cold New Years Day like this.

tracks;

1 A taxa
2 O esculacho
3 Lembrando a terra boa ( Sao José do Ribamar )
4 Família de vocês
5 Bilhete
6 Que onda que te levou
7 Raiva de tudo
8 Aqui se faz, aqui se paga
9 Fim de reinado
10 Chuva de amor

Let’s see what we got in the car. Okay, now everybody hold
something in your hand. Perfect, great coverpicture. The music
of Thomas Mapfumo and his Blacks Unlimited is almost hypnotizing.
It makes you drift away to unknown destinations.
The Lion of Zimbabwe they call him and if you like to know
more about ‘Chimurenga’ and Thomas Mapfumo, go here.

tracks;

1 Ndanza ngoma kurira
2 Mari
3 Mabasa
4 Chemera chaunoda
5 Usatambe nenyoka
6 Muchoni

The musical oceans are so full of fish, it’s hard to pick.
There’s so many shapes and colours, what do you like ?
Vol. 19 shows the possible catch from november 30 till
december 13.

tracks;

1 Oliver de Coque and his Expo ’76 – The tragedy journey of two friends
2 Prince Nico Mbarga & Rocafil Jazz – Nnwa di mma
3 Beth Carvalho – Se você me ouvisse
4 Pacheco y el Conde – Ponle punto
5 Prince Nico Mbarga & Rocafil Jazz – Home is home
6 Lord Creator – Big bamboo
7 Tchicaya Tchico & Waka Waka Band – Josintha, a Nigerian girl
8 Oliver de Coque – Ife chi kwulu geme/Onye zogbulu nwambe
9 Coupé Cloué – Imploration
10 Sparrow – Wood in the fire
11 Pio Leiva – Pescadores de camaron

Syli Authentic is a band mainly existing of students.
If you’re interested in Syliphone’s discography check this.
I am sorry I don’t know anything about this band,
you’d better listen and search for more info.
Enjoy this obscure Guinean prodduction.

tracks;

1 Andree
2 Aye na
3 Mafory bangoura
4 N’bessoma
5 Fabara
6 Senero

Martinho da Vila’s sambas are always subtle and pure, every song
has it’s own unique and original sound. Together with the great
sounds of RCA’s 70’s and Martinho’s warm voice, this is
a true beauty. Although ripped by several other blogs, this one
deserves to be ripped and posted once more.

tracks;

1 Meu laiáraiá
2 Volta pro morro
3 Plim-plim
4 Melancolia
5 Madrugada, carnaval e chuva
6 Samba do paquera
7 Samba da cabrocha bamba
8 Folia de reis
9 Samba de irmao
10 Linha do ao
11 Ninguém conhece ninguém
12 Vamos viver