T-Bone Walker appears on Global Groove to bring us some blues.
He’s famous for his great guitarskills, listen !

tracks;

1 Going to funky town
2 Party girl
3 Why my baby ( keep on bothering me )
4 Jealous woman
5 Going to build me a playhouse
6 Long skirt baby blues
7 Struggling blues
8 I’m in an awful mood
9 I wish my baby ( would come home at night )

When I found this album, about a year ago, I was very pleasantly surprised.
Just before it I discovered Jorginho via the great Justin from
J Thyme, listed in the sidebar. Very nice Samba from Rio de Janeiro.
Although posted before on the web, an album worth downing like no other.

tracks;

1 Agua no feijao
2 O Iperador
3 Assím é demais
4 Paz em todo territorio nacional
5 Eu canto Sao Paulo
6 É preciso dar
7 Potpourri de Partido alto
– Chorei quando o dia clareou
– Mulher de malandro
– Sai da casa da vizinha
– Quanto mais carinhosa mais falsa
8 Jogo da Amarelinha
9 Cavaco vadio
10 Amor selvagem
11 A lua e o mar
12 Perdi a namorada
13 Eu e meu pandeiro

Roberto Ribeiro comes in with this fine Samba album, from 1979
this is ‘Coisas da Vida’, an LP with a lot of character.
Very original melody-lines, don’t miss it.

tracks;

1 Vazio – Está faltando uma coisa em mim
2 Triste desventura
3 Amor aventureiro
4 Impetuosa
5 Partilha
6 Nao sei
7 Bate coraçao
8 Dengo só
9 Coraçao contrariad
10 Ingenuidade
11 Pá-nela
12 Coisas da vida

It took me a couple of days again to get back to you Groovers,
we all need to work now and then. Here’s another Calypso collector
from somewhere down the cabinet. Again there’s no year stated here.
Ripping this one turned a big smile on my face, check out ‘the Mighty
Duke’s Woop Wap, fantastic lyrics.

tracks;

1 The Mighty Sparrow – Old man and the donkey
2 Lord Nelson – I’ve got the itch
3 Starlift – The outcast
4 The Mighty Beaver – Rose
5 The Mighty Duke – Woop Wap
6 The Mighty Sparrow – Calypso twist
7 The Mighty Duke – Racial segregation
8 The Mighty Beaver – Book of love
9 Starlift – I feel pretty
10 Lord Nelson – Problems on my mind

Global Groove’s Sunday Special is all about Cuban Music today.
I had a special friend in Cuban music. As I have friends in every
type of music. If I want to find out something concerning Reggae or
Popmusic, I turn to my buddy Gerard. If it concerns Samba, I turn to
Zeca or Justin, for questions about Cuban music I always went to my
late friend Dirk. On an occasion, Dirk was in some kind of financial
trouble, he sold me his complete collection of Cuban music. He knew
that I would keep it all together, waiting for better times. I am so
sorry he left us.
Now I am just wishfully assuming that the here-after is somehow
connected to the World Wide Web. This is my chance to give him
back some of the music that he loved so much ! To you Dirk !

Beny Moré y su Orquesta – Y sus Amigos

This is one of Dirk’s albums,
Beny Moré with his sharp voice, a national hero in Cuba.
I quote the backcover;
“These recordings focus on different stages of Beny’s carreer.
From the early days of the mambos recorded with Perez Prado in
Mexico, to Mariano Merceron, Ernesto Duarte and eventually his own
big band in Cuba. Also included here are two of the classical duos
with Pedro Vargas and Beny’s own giant band recorded in the
mid 50’s in Cuba.”

tracks;

1 Fiesta de tambores
2 Salomon
3 Maria Cristina
4 Demasiado Santa
5 No me vayas a engañar
6 Tu veras Margot
7 Dulce desengaño
8 La vida es un sueño
9 Solamente una vez
10 Bombon de pollo

Sonora Matancera is the type of band that keeps existing no matter
what, if an older member leaves the group, a young one comes in.
It’s like they have always been there. Recording with lots of stars,
this ‘Box of Songs’ is one with 4 tracks by Nelson Pineda, 4 by
Carlos Argentino and 4 by Celia Cruz. A fine example of Cuban music.
My favourite track; ‘Apambichao’.

1 Carlos Argentino – Tu rica boca
2 Celia Cruz – Gozando
3 Nelson Pinedo – Sabrosito asi
4 Carlos Argentino – Apambichao
5 Celia Cruz – La merenguita
6 Nelson Pinedo – Mi chica y yo
7 Nelson Pinedo – El Gavilan
8 Carlos Argentino – Cha cha cha de los feos
9 Celia Cruz – No encuentro palabras
10 Nelson Pinedo – Recordando mi cuartito
11 Carlos Argentino – De ti enamorado
12 Celia Cruz – Contentosa

Ochestral LP, with several styles of latin, a very happy sounding
album. Original arrangements by Chico O’Farrill, strong voice.

1 El limpiabotas
2 Negra Leono
3 Ariñañara – nague
4 Zarabanda
5 Los componedores
6 Quimbamba
7 No, negrita, no
8 Tambó
9 Guaguancó Africano
10 Se acabo la fiesta

This LP was originally released on EGREM, Empresa de Grabaciones y
Ediciones Musicales La Habana. I love the voices on this fine piece
of Cuban music. And these photos, don’t you just wish you were there ?

tracks;

01 – La sitiera
02 – Changuí monte adentro
03 – Tiene sabor
04 – Yo ta’cansá
05 – Bruca maniguá
06 – Ea! Llegó el guajiro de cunaguá
07 – Ensalada sensación
08 – La paella
09 – Los carnavales de oriente
10 – La reina del guaguancó
11 – Guapo fantoma
12 – El brujo de guanabacoa

I got lucky, just as I finished making the previous post, the sun
broke through, and I managed to take my pics.
So here’s Olatunji from Nigeria with some nice Highlife.
Get that party going !
“I am the drum,
you are the drum,
and we are the drum.
Because the whole world
revolves in rhythm, and
rhythm is the soul of life,
for everything that we do in
life is in rhythm.”

Babatunde Olatunji

tracks;

1 Saturday Night Limbo
2 Ojo Davis
3 Ashafa
4 Bo-Su-Aye
5 Someday
6 Lady Kennedy
7 Dye ko dide
8 Eyo – sese
9 African waltz
10 Totofioko

Good afternoon, It has been a crazy week, lots of work and little time
to rip LP’s. Now I finally find some time, the weather is so bad, I
can’t photograph any albums, I use to do it outside with daylight.
It’s a shame because I had some really nice African stuff waiting,
aswell as some Colombian material.
For now I’ve got to post something else, when I was in Rio,
february 2007, I went out shopping for old records with our great
friend ‘Zecalouro’ from Loronix. He took me to this tiny recordshack
somewhere in a Copacabana shoppingcentre, when searching I found
this ‘Ed Lincoln’. I felt a little uncomfortable buying quite some LP’s
there, a friend takes you to see his special source, I almost felt
like I was stealing something. Later I ripped some of the LP’s I found
and sent them to Zeca, among others this one was posted at Loronix
already over a year ago. I think it is appropriate to post it
oncemore today. Hope you like it.

tracks;

1 Miss Balanço
2 Só danço samba
3 Vou rir de você
4 Influência do jazz
5 Um samba gostoso
6 Vamos balançar
7 O samba é bom assim
8 P’ra que
9 É um estouro
10 Balansamba # 1
11 Tristeza
12 Olhou p’ra mim