Yesterday we had Ebo Taylor’s first solo album. One of the groups
Ebo started his career in was the Uhuru Dance Band. The band was
formed by members of the Broadway Dance Band. According to
Discogs this was the first of their albums from 1971 called ‘Uhuru
Special Highlife Numbers’. Label says 1970 btw. I am not sure if Ebo
Taylor is part of the band on this here record. Maybe one of you
knows .. please share your knowledge with us ..

Gisteren hadden we de eerste solo elpee van Ebo Taylor. Één van
de bands waarin Ebo zijn carrière begon was de Uhuru Dance Band.
Deze werd gevormd door leden van de Broadway Dance Band. Vol-
gens Discogs was dit hun eerste plaat uit 1971 genaamd ‘Uhuru
Special Highlife Numbers’. Volgens het label is het 1970. Ik weet
eerlijk gezegd niet of Ebo Taylor hier ook van de partij was. Mis-
schien weet één van jullie het en wil je het met ons delen ..

Discogs

01 – Mensu koraa
02 – Eyaa duom
03 – Betu me ho awow
04 – Odo kor akyer
05 – Me nhuhu ma obi nkeka
06 – Konkomba medley
07 – Bo me nantsew
08 – Sunkwa
09 – Kwantema
10 – Onyame bekyere
11 – Medzi me sigya
12 – Ali wuo

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For the lovers of funky highlife or afrobeat we’ve got us
this album with Ebo Taylor. Ebo started his career in the
late fifties working with The Stargazers, the Broadway Dance
Band and the Uhuru Dance Band. Later collaborated with Fela
Kuti, Pat Thomas and C.K. Mann. Always blending Ghanaian
highlife with jazz and funk. This is his 1976 album ‘My Love and
Music’ which is listed as his first at Discogs. Enjot listening ..

Liefhebbers van funky highlife en afrobeat kunnen hun hart
ophalen met deze plaat van Ebo Taylor. Ebo begon zijn muzikale
leven werkend met de Stargazers, the Broadway Dance Band en
de Uhuru Dance Band in de late jaren vijftig. Later wekte hij o.a.
met Fela Kuti, Pat Thomas en C.K. Mann. Altijd Ghanese highlife
vermengend met jazz en funk. Dit is zijn 1976 album ‘My Love
and Music’ welke op Discogs staat aangegeven als zijn eerste
solo plaat. Luister weer met plezier ..

Twer Nyame 1977/78
C.K. Mann & the Masters, Womma Yengor
C.K. Mann & his Carousel 7, Funky Highlife 1975
C.K. Mann & Kofi Yankson, Together 1977
African Highlife, Various Artists 1964
Stars of Ghana, Various Artists 1982
Akom Ko, Various Artists 1976
Highlife Hits, Various Artists
Stars of West Africa, Various Artists 1961
Hi-Lifes You Have Loved vol. 1, Various Artists 1972
Wikipedia
Discogs

01 – Odofo nyi akyiri biara
02 – Will you promise
03 – Maye omama
04 – My love and music

Kijk, dat zijn verzoekjes waar ik blij van wordt, José vroeg
me of ik meer wilde posten van Andrés Landero, Juancho
Polo Valencia en/of Alejo Durán. Van Andrés Landero heb
ik niet meer zoveel maar de andere twee, geen probleem.
Maar eens beginnen met een plaat van Juancho Polo Val-
encia. Deze is uit 1974 en bevat een rijtje nummers die we
nog niet eerder hadden. Heerlijke vallenato van één der
groten in het veld .. down, deel en luister ..

Well, these are the type of requests that make me happy.
José asked me to post some more of artists like Andrés
Landero, Juancho PoloValencia or/and Alejo Durán. With
Andrés Landero I have not much left but the other two,
no problem. Let’s start with another record by Juancho
Polo Valencia. This one is from 1974 and contains some
songs we didn’t have yet. Delightful vallenato by one
of the masters in the field.
get, spread and listen ..

Memorias de Juancho Polo Valencia 1994
Dos caras Vallenatas 1975
Por Aqui Por Alla
El Legendario cd 2001
originales de la Provincia 1996
Niña Mane
El Legendario vol. 5 1974
El Legendario 1970
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Wikipedia
Discogs

01 – Caminando viene
02 – El sombrerito
03 – La coqueta
04 – Las muchachas de piojo
05 – Alfonso lopez
06 – De vez en cuando
07 – La bahia
08 – El jardin de juana
09 – Catalina
10 – Sio sio

Discogs
Shanu Olu

01 – Emhagiegbe-wniso
02 – Eniyo
03 – Ameniwele-ode
04 – Igogo

For the lovers of Congolese music we’ve got another
record with Bumba Massa today. We had two albums
earlier, on one he was called Sammy instead of Bumba.
Bumba Massa used to work with the greatest of artists.
Names like Empompo Loway, Bavon Marie Marie, Johnny
Bokelo, Vicky Longomba, Franco Luambo, Pablo Lubudika
and Syran Mbenza are a few that make huge impression.
On this 1988 album, Bumba Massa appears with Lokassa
Ya Mbongo and Dally Kimoko among others. Although
mainly key-based (I am more fond of guitars myself)
Bumba Massa’s sweet voice make this a nice record ..

Voor de liefhebbers van Congolese muziek hebben we
nog een plaat met Bumba Massa vandaag. Eerder zagen
we reeds twee andere elpees, op één van de twee werd
Bumba ‘Sammy’ genoemd. Bumba Massa werkte met de
meest indrukwekkende atiesten in zijn leven. Namen als
Empompo Loway, Bavon Marie Marie, Johnny Bokelo,
Vicky Longomba, Franco Luambo, Pablo Lubudika en
Syran Mbenza zijn natuurlijk niet de minste. Op dit
album uit 1988 verschijnt Bumba met Lokassa Ya
Mbongo en Dally Kimoko o.a. Hoewel op deze
elpee voornamelijk synthesizers soleren (ik hou
zelf meer van gitaren) maakt Bumba Massa’s
mooie stem veel goed ..

with Les Redoutables 1985
Gare a Toi Mon Ami 1981
Kékélé, Congo Life 2003
Bio at Last.fm
Discogs

01 – Opika
02 – Mokili-complique
03 – Maria-theresa
04 – Mobembo

Good morning groovers, yesterday a certain commenter
told me to stop posting music from cd and go back to
bringing stuff from rare old elpees. Okay, no problem
if you wish to criticize my work. However, if you do this
anonymous, I shall not publish it. Let’s
see, what do we have today ..

If you want something rare, this is rare.
I can’t seem to find them anywhere on the web.

Over the years we saw several albums with Los Corraleros
de Majagual. They were very famous. Today we find this
record with Los Carraleros de Bogotá. Some of the songs
were written by Efrain González of whom we found some
records before. Other songs were written by Julio Sanjuan
and José Barros. We have an elpee with Pedro Quinto
which also contains songs written by these three. I’m
not sure if any of them took part of Los Corraleros
de Bogotá. If anybody does, please share
your knowledge ..

Efrain González y sus Muchachos, Parranda Costeña
Efrain González y su Tres 1979
Pedro Quinto y su Conjunto, canta Buitraguito

01 – Levantate maria
02 – El niño
03 – Carmen miriam
04 – La cama de toña
05 – La flaca
06 – La mini falda
07 – Me voy al amanecer
08 – El gallo pelao
09 – Por un pelo
10 – Los gotereros
11 – El muerto
12 – Hojita de trinitaria

Wikipedia
Discogs

01 – Comejen
02 – Seis chorreado
03 – Si te contaran
04 – Mirame
05 – Suavito
06 – Bella es la navidad
07 – Viva richie ray
08 – El mulato
09 – Pachanga medley
10 – La cuchara
11 – Pa’ chismoso tu
12 – Cubaja

On Harlequin we find this lovely cd with the music of Filiberto
Rico and his group Rico’s Creole Band. He was a Cuban clarinet
player and one of the first to bring Cuban music to Europe.
Read more in this Bio.

Blessed in Havana, Cuba, in 1910, Filiberto Rico was one of
the primary wave of music artists to popularize Latin American
music throughout north European countries. An alto saxophonist
who doubled on flute, youthful Rico gigged and documented with
several rings in Paris and Copenhagen through the past due ’20s,
especially Moises Simon’s Orquesta Tipica Cubana. Rico’s Creole
Music group was produced in 1930 and interested the Parisian
open public using the conga, the beguine, as well as the bolero
until a proliferation of Nazis (equipped with a racist Weltan-
schauung that criminalized the cultural variety embodied in
the word “Creole”) managed to get essential for this Afro-Cuban
musician to absent himself from the spot through the years
1941-1946. Rico’s postwar reputation in Paris and along the
France Riviera is renowned, and continues to be related to the
mixing of Western european and Latin American designs. His early
recordings had been reissued in two amounts on compact disk with
the Harlequin label in 1993-1994, and his postwar profession is
documented on the retrospective two-fer released in 2003 by
Fremeaux & Associes. ( MusicianBio)

01 – Viva la conga
02 – A una rosa
03 – Biguine d’amour
04 – Canto caribe
05 – Lagrimas negras
06 – Ce que j’aime
07 – Rumba seductora
08 – Quiero
09 – La complainte de l’esclave
10 – Chaparrita
11 – Alma de mujer
12 – Como una rosa
13 – Mammy bong
14 – Blanca rosa
15 – La conga
16 – Chiquita de cuba
17 – la sitiera
18 – Rumba galopante
19 – Paris soir
20 – 1-2-3 yep

From Macondo, the capital of Vallenato, we’ve got this
slice of vinyl with Rafael Mendoza y su Conjunto. Rafael
is accompanied by acordeonist Norberto Ramirez and
the rhythms of Costa Antillana. We found the title song
on a collector I posted in june 2018. Today the full record.
We’ll have to accept a little background noise ..

Uit de hoofdstad van de vallenato, Macondo, vandaag deze
prettige plaat met Rafael Mendoza y su Conjunto. Rafael
wordt vergezeld door accordeonist Norberto Ramirez en
de ritmes van Costa Antillana. De titel song kwaman we
reeds tegen op een verzamelaar die ik in juni 2018 heb
gepost. Vandaag de hele plaat, wèl een beetje ruis ..

Various Artists, Que? Vallenatos 1976

01 – Carrito viejo
02 – Yo no me voy sin ti
03 – Maxima
04 – Decidete
05 – Cicatriz
06 – Negra bonita
07 – Paloma cimarrona
08 – Vortice de amor
09 – Lilia mercedes
10 – Mi primer amor
11 – Mis ilusiones
12 – Mirada melancolica

Al is Arsenio Rodriguez, de blinde meester van de ‘Son
Montuno’ al niet meer onder ons sinds 1970, (bijna 50
jaar geleden) zijn muziek blijft fascineren. Op het album
van vandaag staan enkele songs die we al eerder zagen
langs komen, echter tevens wat andere. Hieronder zie
je hoe de grote Arsenio werd verdreven van de eerste
plaats in onze download Top 20. Hij blijft echter
stevig staan op nummer twee en dat zal
vast en zeker nog lang het geval zijn ..

Eventhough Arsenio Rodriguez, the blind tres player and
master of the son montuno, left us already in 1970, (almost
50 years ago) his music remains fascinating. On today’s
album we find some songs that have been here on earlier
occasions but also a couple unknown ones. Below this
article you can see how the great Arsenio was driven
from his number one position in our download Top 20,
I’m sure however he will remain in number
2 position for quite some time ..

La Pachanga 1963
Arsenio 1957
Arsenio Rodriguez y su Magia 1973
Dundunbanza
El Ciego Maravilloso 1976
Exitos
Primitivo
with Chano Pozo, legendary Sessions 1992
Sabroso y Caliente 1957
Arsenio Rodriguez y su Conjunto, Vol. 2
Arsenio Rodriguez y su Conjunto

01 – No me llores mas
02 – No puedo comer vistagacha
03 – Dundunbanza
04 – Me siento muy solo
05 – Lo que dice usted
06 – Llevatelo todo
07 – Me bote de guaño
08 – Vuelvo a la vida
09 – Kila, quique y chocolate
10 – La vida es un Sueño