“If Sunny Ade carries the flag for Juju and Fela’s Afrobeat
will, in time become a global source sound, then the late
Prince Nico will forever be Igbo Highlife.” ( Rough Guide )
Always sharp looking Prince Nico Mbarga rocks once more !

tracks;

1 Family movement
2 Home is home
3 Le pere de notre pays
4 Lost love

To keep up the pace, this Sampler number 15.
It shows you posts from October 14 to October 19.

tracks;

1 Le T.P.O.K. Jazz – Testament ya bowule
2 Le Poete Lutumba Simaro et le TPOK Jazz – Maclebert
3 Orchestre Régional de Mopti – Manden po
4 Canario y su Grupo – Cuando las mujeres quieren a los hombres
5 Zé Di – Quando meu Salgueiro desce
6 Johnnie Jordaan – De parel van de Jordaan
7 Roberto Rivas y Gente Morena – Arroz con concolon
8 Théo Blaise Kounkou – Bella Amicha
9 Angelo y su Conjunto Modelo – Maria Belen
10 Les Ambassadeurs – Mana mana
11 Pablo Lubadika Porthos – Osuki wapi
12 Théo Blaise Kounkou – Massy
13 Guillermo Portabales – Canto a la Vueltabajera

I had a request for a Salsa Compilation and it just so happens
this one was waiting on the shelf. It’s a compilation I once made
for an old friend. We used to listen to these songs way back
early eighties. Only Fania All Stars here, for now.
I hope it answers to your expectations.

tracks;

1 Pacheco y Monguito – Acere Cipriano
2 Celia, Ray y Adalberto – Nadie se salva de la rumba
3 Willie Colon – Te conozco
4 Pacheco y el Conde – Ponle punto
5 Fania All Stars – Por eso yo canto salsa
6 Pacheco y Monguito – Yo soy Cagueyrán
7 Fania All Stars – Dime que te pasa
8 Celia, Ray y Adalberto – Debes callar
9 Willie Colon – Juana Peña
10 Pacheco y el Conde – Primoroso cantar
11 Pacheco y Monguito – Ven y ven
12 Pacheco y el Conde – Cositas buenas
13 Fania All Stars – Quitate tu

To guide you along and through our posts between
October 4, 2008 and October 15, 2008, here’s
Global Sampler vol. 14.
Hope you to find what you like !

tracks;

1 Van Dyke Parks – G-Man Hoover
2 Luambo Makiadi – Belela authenticité na congres ya mpr 1er
3 Lui Lepke – Sharron
4 Oliver Mtukudzi – Mukombe
5 Kambou Clement – Dounougnan
6 The Super Railband – Konowale
7 Johnny Ringo – Don’t know much
8 Muddy Ibe & his Nkwa Brothers System – Kwuo ka ira
9 Ramito – En el monte del olvido
10 Alton Ellis – These eyes
11 Romica Puceanu – Geaba mai ma duc acasa
12 David ‘Fefe’ Diambouana – Nikeumbu kuaya-bika
13 Orchestre Afrisa International – Aon-aon
14 Sam Mangwana – Tchimurenga Zimbabwe

Absolutely crazy for some good samba, we’ve got us this 1977
record of Beth Carvalho. She’s always in for some old fashion
stuff. With numbers of Nelson Cavaquinho, Cartola, Aniceto
and Carlos Cachaça, this can’t go wrong. Listen to that
7-string Brazilian guitar, great sound.
Great cover too, lots of beerbottles, in the bars of life.

tracks;

1 Saco de feijao
2 Olho por olho
3 Lá vem ela chorando
4 Deus nao castiga ninguém
5 Vingança
6 As moças
7 Se você me ouvisse
8 Carro de boi
9 Cuidado com a minha viola
10 Desengano
11 Sempre só
12 O mundo é um moinho

The album presented tonight was reguested by one of our visitors.
Prince Nico Mbarga was luckily married, as you can hear in track
one of this LP. Who knows another African artist with a Mercedes
almost like this one ?

tracks;

1 Lucky marriage
2 Nnwa di mma
3 Welcome
4 Aye yi mole

Second LP by the great Oliver de Coque at this page is this one.
The title is more or less the same but this one is from 1977.
First side contains two tracks although they appear to be one. I
didn’t try to devide them, chanceless if I would.
Don’t you just love that outfit ?

tracks;

1 Oje mba ewilo / Odi ili eri aku special
2 The tragedy journey of two friends
3 Oma obi dia

It’s been 4 days since I found the time for some posts.
Been busy doing other things, but today we’re back with
something we didn’t see yet at the GG. Some time ago, one
of our loyal visitors, who lives in Paris asked me if I had
music from Haiti. At the time I was not familiar with it, so
I decided to dive into the matter. Compas is the name of this
style and it’s a happy sound. “The overall sound is sweet and
smooth and the melodies are carried on flowing guitar lines,
regulated by a characteristic rocking beat that pivots between
the hi-hat and a bass drum on the floor.”(Rough Guide)
I found this album on that fair last week. This weekend
I had to visit Paris for other matters and searched a little
for records too. I brought home some old LP’s by groups like
Shleu-Shleu and Coupé Cloué. You can expect some of those later.
For now, listen to this fine LP by Les Super Shleu.

tracks;

1 Marie-Annick
2 Carnaval marché presse
3 Vacances 77
4 Marie-Chantal
5 Pas feté cadence
6 Viré rond
7 Chouboulé
8 Ti mam’zelle
9 Nicole

The next Sampler is here for your pleasure.
It’s my lucky number 13.

tracks;

1 Errol Scorcher – Steppin’ worldwide
2 Orchestre Régional de Ségou – Lefènin
3 Martinho da Vila – Você nao passa de uma mulher
4 Orchestre Régional de Kayes – Tèrèna
5 Byron Lee – Village ram
6 Nazaré Pereira – Boi bumba
7 Gasper Lawal – Kita-Kita
8 Kitch – Pan ’round the neck
9 Kitch – P.P. 99
10 Prince Nico Mbarga & Rocafil Jazz – Free education in Nigéria
11 Horace Andy Mammie blue
12 Super Biton – Babu
13 Prince Nico Mbarga & Rocafil Jazz – Wayo inlaw
14 Pacheco y El Conde – Dulce con dulce
15 Docteur Nico – l’Amour sans frontière
16 Ed Lincoln – Amanha eu vou

It’s time to move on with our samplers, we are still a little
behind. This is vol. 12 and it guides you along posts
from September 1 to 14. enjoy your search.

tracks;

1 Ann Peebles – Come to mama
2 Super Biton de Segou – Tcha-tcho
3 Tata ‘Bembo’ Kouyate – Mama Batchily
4 Jacob ‘Killer’ Miller – Standing firm
5 Rail Band du Mali – Mali tebaga mogoma
6 Nahawa Doumbia – Banani
7 Pacho Galán y sus Solistas – La estereofonica
8 Sambistas do Asfalto – Arrasta a sandalia
9 Lui Lepke – Rent man skank
10 King Sunny Adé – Sunny ti de ariya
11 Super Biton – Siseni
12 Super Diamono – Diaraf ( Jaraaf )
13 Dioris Valladares con su conjunto Típico – El can can
14 Conjunto Casino – La cuerda floja
15 Clara Nunes – Contentamento
16 Chief Commander Ebenezer Obey – Igba owuro lawa