Prince Nico Mbarga scored his first huge hit in 1976 with the song
‘Sweet Mother’, this album was originally released one year later,
in 1977. The copy we have here is a ‘Rounder’ re-release from 1982.
I quote a line from the backcover; “…if you don’t start dancing
five minutes into the first song, check your pulse to ascertain
whether you’re still alive…”
This is African music with stunning guitarwork and great rhythm.

tracks;

1 Free education in Nigeria
2 Onye ori obi
3 Simplicity
4 Nature

Lord Kitchener’s or Kitch’s albums you don’t find every day.
I got kinda lucky, last week I already posted ‘Spirit of Carnival’
which I recently found and today here’s ‘Curfew Time’. I bought
this one last sunday when I explored some of my favourite
Amsterdam recordshops. Curfew Time is from 1971, it’s Calypso
at it’s best.

tracks;

1 Curfew time
2 Play Mas’
3 Whait teacher
4 Let them crow
5 P.P. 99
6 Mas’ at Madison
7 True confession
8 Ah go tell granny
9 Jealous Cathy
10 Black power

Dear fellow groovers, here’s Global Sampler vol. 6, each
album on this blog is represented by one of the tracks on
these Samplers, I hope you find what you’re looking for.
Enjoy,

tracks;

1 Willie Colon & Ruben Blades – Buscando Guyaba
2 Os Originais do Samba – Cachaça no tanque
3 Laba Sosseh – Ngombelle
4 Pacheco – Soy hijo del Siboney
5 Bopol Mansiamina – Bonjour le soleil
6 Lord Kitchener – Kitch take it easy
7 Angel Viloria y su Conjunto Cibaeño – El jarro pichao
8 Gregory Isaacs – No speech
9 Sam Mangwana – Celica souvenir
10 The Latin Brothers – Pegaso
11 Lolo Lolitta & Tchico – Zena-Maiga
12 Arsenio Rodriguez y su Conjunto – Pucho Marquez
13 Thomas Mapfumo – Congress
14 Raymond Naptali – Loving feeling
15 Aracy de Almeida – A melhor do planeta
16 Isaura Garcia – Eu sei sofrer

One of the bigger names regarding Bolero is certainly Vicentico
Valdes. Having played with for instance La Sonora Matancera
his romantic tenor voice is known across the United States,
Europe and South America. Put on this record and dance
around the room with your lover. Check out those deep horn
sounds on track 1.

tracks;

1 Yo soy de Canaveral
2 Amar es mucho
3 Me enamore de ti
4 Como el viento
5 Intranquilidad
6 Mentiras al oido
7 Toma mi corazon
8 Perlas de pensamiento
9 Quisera saber
10 Primavera en Portugal
11 Decidete
12 Aqui de pie

From Trinidad comes this Soca album. The word ‘soca’ stands for
‘Soul Calypso’. Kitch is the man who was there, developing it.
The overall spirit on this album is good, it gives us some
tracks that still contain a lot of the old Calypso feeling.
It has one track however, he could have left away for my part.
Track no. 8 does not really belong here.
Aldwin Roberts is his real name, listen to ‘Kitch’!

tracks;

1 Soca Millicent
2 The spirit
3 Dog bite you
4 Symphony in G
5 Take de phone out me house
6 Suzie
7 Pan ’round the neck
8 Disco love
9 Town bunnin down
10 The carnival is over

This is Orchestre Régional de Sikasso, the fourth album in
this series that I have. I believe there’s one more at least by
Orchestre Régional de Mopti. If any one has it..
To be more complete I added some backcover information below.

tracks;

1 Récital
2 Mali sènèkèlaw
3 Nafarima
4 Batuta mori

I was going to make some nice posts today, at least I thought
I would. Work is coming in between again. If you run your own
business, and staffmembers turn sick…, you know.
To post a little something I ripped this 12″ single,
really didn’t have more time.
The coming days are not much different I’m affraid.
I wish I could take a month off, I’d stuff you all. Ha ha.
This is Gasper Lawal, a West African ( I think Malinese )
who went to the UK in the sixties and practically played
with all rock artists around.
He is his own man with his own unique style, Check this out.

P.S. At the first opportunity I’ll rip Ochestre Régional
de Sikasso for you, it’s No.4 in that Malinese series.
Probably tuesday, untill then.

tracks;

1 Kita Kita
2 Oro-Moro

Forró is music from Brazil’s North-East, a very pleasant style
that makes you feel at home right away. Accordeons always
seem to give me that warm kind of feeling you have with
friends and family. Anyway, this is Nazaré Pereira, a singer
with a very nice round voice. And ‘Amazônia’ an album, perfect
for a quiet sunday afternoon. By the way, if you like Forró,
take a look at ‘Forró em Vinil’ a very nice page you find
in my list of favourites at the side-bar. Listen.

tracks;

1 Riacho do navio
2 Baia veia Baia
3 Xapuri do Amazônas
4 Sodade meu bem, sodade
5 Flecha de fogo
6 O Baiao em Paris
7 O que vier eu traço
8 Forró no escuro
9 Nuvens que passam
10 Kalu
11 Boi bumba

P.S. there seems to be something wrong at ‘Forró en Vinil’, sorry.

THIS IS A REPOST !

I got a few comments on this LP that was posted already some
time ago at Global Groove. There seemed to be something wrong
with the quality, so I decided to rip it again to the latest
standards. Cover scans are also better.

This is an oldie. From 1967 this is Byron Lee with some very
happy music. Jump Up is Calypso related and originally not
from Jamaica. But Byron Lee controlled all Caribbean styles.
If you need to upgrade your party summerstyle, this one is
guaranteed 100 % Jump Up !

tracks;

1 Riverbank Jump Up
2 Benwood Dick
3 El negrito
4 The road march
5 Jamaica Jump Up
6 Happy wanderer
7 Elaine, Harry and mama
8 Second hand piano
9 St. Thomas
10 Village ram
11 Surprise merengue
12 Laziest man

For all lovers of Mali music, here’s number 3 out of the 4
that I own in this series. This is Orchestre Régional de Kayes,
lead by bandmaster ‘Harouna Barry’. The fine voice we hear
belongs to ‘Touré’. Enjoy it.

tracks;

1 Sanjina
2 Kayi
3 Nanyuman
4 Duga
5 Malisajo
6 Tèrèna
7 Badage