Today I have a funpost ! In an hour or so, the European ‘Futbol’
(soccer) Championship in Austria and Switzerland is about to start.
For the occasion I thought it would be fun to post some music by
the two greatest soccerplayers of the previous century. ‘Pelé’ and
‘Cruyff’. I’d say Cruyff was a good second if we speak about soccer,
but if we speak about music, I am affraid he is far from that position.
Brazilians have a nature, they’re born with music in their vains. Pelé
comes in with a great Bossa composition, backed by ‘Sergio Mendes’,
what could go wrong ? World, please have mercy on Johan Cruyff
and us Dutch people, we don’t have that sunny way. What we do
have however, is a good sense of humour, Johan Cruyff surprises
us with this 1969 Dutch Carnaval number, once again there
is no comparison.

tracks;

1 O coraçao do rei
2 Meu mundo é uma bola
3 Memorias
4 Nascimento
5 Voltando a Baurú
6 Cidade grande
7 Cidade grande
8 Alma Latina, ” My world is a ball”
9 A tristeza do Adeus
10 A tristeza do Adeus
11 Na Bahia
12 Amor e agressao
13 Meu mundo é uma bola

tracks;

1 Johan Cruyff – Oei oei oei
2 Johan Cruyff – Alle stoppen ineens naar de knoppen

Another great find of this afternoon in Amsterdam,
‘Los Nemus del Pacifico’ is a very fine band from the Fuentes stable.
It is one big family at Fuentes studio’s. On bass and artistic direction,
Julio E.Estrada… yes ‘Fruko’. You can hear Fruko’s tide hand of
orchestral leadership running this session, very nice and tide indeed.

tracks;

1 Lindas y bellas
2 Por que disimulamos
3 Salomon
4 Si tu no, la ptra
5 Para la luna
6 La lengua vipirina
7 No tienes nada
8 la primera rumbera
9 La disponibvle
10 El amor de Leonor

It has been a hectic day yesterday, no time left for funthings, like
working on this page. Today however I found the time, when I was
in Amsterdam for work, to check up on an old buddy’s ‘second hand
record’ store. Jan somehow always manages to lay his hand on some
obscure material, like this ‘Chico da Silva’. First LP I find on him,
and a good one. With pleasure I present to you, ” Chico da Silva “.
Vamos embora..

tracks;

1 O barba azul
2 Será que tem ?
3 Pandeiro é meu nome
4 Lamento de bamba
5 É chato
6 A meia noite
7 Belo amanhecer
8 A volta ao mundo em 30 segundos
9 Veja lá você
10 Só o samba me domina
11 O tempo passou
12 No terreiro de Ossanha

3 Guys, 3 voices, Israel Vibration, these 3 singers have the
traditional habit of rotating the solopart of each song. It’s a very
nice experience to see them perform live. I was at a concert of
them at Paradiso Amsterdam some years ago, and I had
a great time, super social reggae.

tracks;

1 Give I grace
2 Friday evening
3 Mr. Taxman
4 Survive
5 Top control
6 We a de rasta
7 Unconquered people
8 Possibility
9 Dwellers of darkness
10 Practice what Jah teach

This Samba album by Maria Creuza is a Fantastic spin.
I found it some years ago in an Amsterdam secondhand recordstore.
My copy is a French one as you can see, the bottomcover is the
original one. No matter what cover you like most, this LP sounds
so fresh and clear, and it contains some great songs. Aqui temos
um album muito bom por Maria Creuza, um album que eu sempre
gostei pa caramba, vai escutar com bastante volume.

tracks;

01 – Chega Pra Lá (Élton Medeiros / Joacyr Santana)
02 – Rala Rala (Wilson Moreira / Nei Lopes)
03 – Amor de Mãe (Nelson Cavaquinho / Guilherme de Brito)
04 – Exaltação à Tiradentes (Tiradentes) (Mano Décio da Viola / Penteado /Estanislau Silva)
05 – Pouco Importa (Cartola)
06 – Soldado do Amor (Cartola / Nuno Veloso)
07 – Cordas e Correntes (Martinho da Vila)
08 – Quem Lucrou Fui Eu (Monarco)
09 – O Namorado de Maria (Partido Alto) (Xangô da Mangueira / Aniceto do Império)
10 – Alhos e Bugalhos (Zé do Maranhão)
11 – Madrugada (Zé Keti)
12 – A Timidez Me Devora (Jorginho / Walter Rosa)

A nice piece of samba from 1973.
Pedrinho Rodrigues brings some well known songs on ‘Sambe ou se Mande’.
POVO FELIZ SAMBA !
Espero que vao gostar deste LP !

tracks;

01 Mexe mexe
02 Tem capoeira
03 Lendas do Abaeté
04 Amor amor
05 Zodíaco no samba
06 Se ela quer
07 A dança do Cafuné
08 Se Deus quiser
09 O saber poético da literatura de Cordel
10 Foi assim

Another dancecollector with mixed types of African music.
Soukous and Highlife.
Hope you like it !

tracks;

1 Bibi Den’s Tchibayi – The best ambience
2 Bibi Den’s Tchibayi – Sawambe
3 Bibi Den’s Tchibayi – Elisa Kouadio
4 Super Mazembe Orchestra – Shauri Yako
5 Pat Thomas – Asante Kotoko
6 Tchico – Nostalgie d’Afrique
7 Tchico – Au revoir Adely
8 Tchico – Detty love
9 Tchico – Sané Mamadou
10 Tchico – Veronica linda
11 Super Sweet Talks – Twerno

Gregory Isaacs with his golden voice appears on Vigin Records with
a great line-up, Next to Sly and Robbie we see Leroy Wallace, Santa,
Leroy Sibbles, Bo Peep, Bingy Bunny, Sticky and Skully, Gladstone Anderson,
Winston Wright, Ansil Collins, Nambo, Bobby Ellis, Deadly Headly,
Earl ‘Wire’ Lindo, Junior Delgado and Dennis Brown.

tracks;

1 Universal tribulation
2 Mr. Brown
3 Down the line
4 Lonely girl
5 Bumping and boring
6 My relationship
7 Slave market
8 Black liberation struggle
9 Jah music
10 Soon forward

This one is an old personal favorite, I think I bought it around 1980
and played it very much those days.
Willie Colon comes in with a true beauty, the voice of ‘Hector Lavoe’,
Produced by ‘Jerry Masucci’ and recording director, ‘Johnny Pacheco’.
” Azucar !”

tracks;

1 Che Che Colé
2 No me llores más
3 Ausencia
4 Te conozco
5 Juana Peña
6 Sonero mayor
7 Sangrigorda
8 Tu no puedes conmigo

This is my first African single, I bought it at the latest recordfair
in Utrecht, april this year. French dealers always bring great African stuff.
Only two tracks but two great ones.

tracks;

1 Mose-Konzo
2 Lisa ngomba