need to know this song title, pretty please!

One of 26 tracks available on the <a href="http://georiot.co/3TgR">Strut Africa</a> sampler on iTunes.

Taken from the album <i>Inspiration Information</i> by Mulatu Astatke & The Heliocentrics, "Esketa Dance" is one of the songs included on our Strut Africa collection, which also features music from legends including Ebo Taylor, Orchestre Poly-Rythmo, Tony Allen, and more. 

For a limited time, the original albums on which these songs appear are also available for at a special discounted rate. Happy holidays from the Strut crew!

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Mulatu Astatke & The Heliocentrics - Esketa Dance (Strut Africa)

Some records seem to come out of nowhere. Witness this debut EP by the half-Mauritian percussionist & singer Mo Kolours, which unites an array of more familiar influences with the Sega music of his island roots.

These heavily rhythmic slave songs from the Indian Ocean offer a vital clue to the sound of this enchanting EP. The rhythms lead the way here, whether the straight percussive workout of Drum Talking or the crafty vocal manipulation that drives the low-slung bump of Biddies, a song that traces an imaginary line between Theo Parrish and Gonja Sufi.

Dead of Night mines the symbolism of The Beatles’ outwardly chirpy Blackbird while his own Bakiraq (like Burt, the songwriter) resembles a soul classic pieced together from fragments around the flickering light of a fire. There’s a sense of spontaneity at the heart of Mo Kolours’ music and much of the music he loves: Jimi Hendrix, Nina Simone, King Tubby and many more. Like the best records, the result is so much more than just the sum of its influences: it’s a new feeling which breathes fresh life into the past and keeps its eyes set firmly on the future.

This EP boasts a the first ever remix by our favourite re-edit crew: Truth Is Light, whose incredible series of limited 12"s from Vancouver have accorded them cult status. 
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Mo Kolours - Biddies

Marijata - I Walk Alone

Reissue of ultra rare 7" from cult Orchestre Rail Band with:
- ”Moko Diolo" on side A, a beautiful long trippy deep afro jazz with very funky rhythms sections, great garage sounding guitar and fantastic hypnotic voices!
- “Tama Diyara Mali Deun La" on B side is a massive funky afro track with killer sax solo. For sure a real crowd shaker with killer breaks. 

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Along with the Bembeya Jazz or Orchestra Baobab, the Rail Band of Bamako is one of the most prolific bands in all of West Africa. This legendary orchestra has launched, among others, the careers of Salif Keita, Mory Kanté and Djélimady Tounkara and has bequeathed in just fifteen years one of the most important work in Malian and West African music.

Encouraged by his superiors at the Ministry of Transport, the station master Aly Diallo, remarkable multi-instrumentalist is charged with developing a modern and eclectic band to animate the Buffet of the station.
Named the Orchestre Rail Band du Buffet Hôtel de la gare de Bamako, the orchestra is officially created in October 1969 under the leadership of conductor, saxophonist and trumpeter Tidiani Koné, an outstanding and unsung musician who was both a griot and a jazzman. Nicknamed the “Malian Miles Davis”, Tidiani Koné embodies by itself the wonderful modernity and adaptability of Malian music. His idea was to bring Malian music out of what he felt was the dead-end cycle of Afro-Cuban and European imitations. He also was the first to understand that Salif Keita’s voice was pure gold and did not miss the chance to recruit the young albino singer.

The Rail Band was established to « explore and propel the Mandingo repertoire in order to aim at the neo-classicism of the African chanson ». In combining Mandingo and Bambara folklore, Congolese rumba, and American Rhythm’n’Blues with French Pop and hints of Calypso, the orchestra’s sound became the soundtrack of a golden decade in Mali’s music from 1970 to the early 1980s and paved the way for numerous West African orchestras to follow.

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From his studio in central Bobo-Dioulasso, photographer Sory Sanlé documented a nation's transformation from colonial foothold to cosmopolitan oasis. Bobo Yeye: Belle Epoque in Upper Volta provides an intimate look into the landlocked nation's pop culture explosion of the 1970s. A melange of community elders and emboldened youth spill from the brightly lit confines of Sanlé's Volta Photo into the dimly lit nightclubs of Upper Volta's cultural capital. Accompanying this hardbound monograph are dozens of rare and evocative recordings spread over three discs by Bobo-Dioulasso's musical titans: Volta Jazz, Dafra Star, Echo Del Africa, and Les Imbattables Léopards. 

Bobo Yéyé: Belle Époque in Upper Volta

Volta Jazz - Wêrê Wêrê Magne

1. Tell us a bit about yourself and your record collection.

Hello, my name is Will aka Skinshape, I do old school sounding psychedelic-funky-souly-stoner-rock music... Or something like that. I'm working on my fourth album now. I also run a label called Horus Records, we do exclusively roots reggae. I'm also a record trader and collector. Living in London provides a lot of opportunities for record digging. I've been collecting for about 8 years... First reggae mostly, then moving into soul and funk, and now I'm more into African music.


2. 45/7 is all about celebrating the 7". Can you tell us a bit about what you love about the format.

The 7" for some reason is a near-mythical thing. I don't know quite what it is about it... But something grabs me a lot more than an LP does. 7" Just feels like the coolest format, and I love the artwork on 7" records. If you're into certain genres, especially reggae, the 7" is really the only way to go! 


3. One hour of vinyl goodness... can you talk us through your selection for your 45/7 mix?

I've pulled out my favourite 7" singles, but then realised there are still way too many. I've worked it down to records that I can't really let go of, or that I'm just really into at the moment! It starts in the USA, then hops across the Atlantic to Africa (West to East), then hops back across to the Caribbean for a final blast of a few of my favourite reggae singles.


4. Where can people catch you / listen to your music?

You can check me out at https://skinshape.bandcamp.com for my own music, and then for the Horus Records stuff, you can check it at https://horusrecords.bandcamp.com , we just put out two new singles actually! 

5) Top 5 all time fave records

Not really sure, there's too many to say. But... I'll just pick a few I like a lot, in no order:
1. Dinah Washington - This Bitter Earth
2. The Congos - Fisherman
3. The Verve - Bittersweet Symphony
4. The Beatles - She Came In Through The Bathroom Window
5. Pink Floyd - Echoes Part I (Live at Pompeii)

45/7 #42 ARTIST: SKINSHAPE

I remember the day clearly. I was searching for treasures in a record shop in Yaoundé, the Capital city of Cameroon, when suddenly I came across a 7-inch record with a picture of a young man wearing a traditional hat and bearing the marks of several imposing vertical scars on the side of his face, carved when he was just a boy as a reminder of his heritage in the Musgum tribe of the northern part of the country.

The record contained two songs – ‘Gandjal Kessoum’ and ‘Touflé’ – by an artist I had never heard of before named Hamad Kalkaba. Both cuts were raw classics of fuzzed-out bass, pin-sharp horns, built upon the unshakable foundation of Northern Cameroon’s mightiest rhythm: the Gandjal. The shop owner - who noticed that I was listening to the same record over and over again - mentioned that ‘There is another single with a green cover of the same artist, if I am not mistaken’.

Over the next six years I searched for that ‘green cover’ and finally found it in a record collection belonging to an old bar in Parakou in northern Benin. While most of the records had been beaten and worn by a life spent in the jukebox, this one had been sitting in its paper sleeve for forty years, untouched and unplayed, seemingly waiting for us to pick it up and rip the two soulful Gandjal tunes from it, the masterpieces ‘Fouh Sei Allah’ and ‘Tchakoulaté’.

These two records, plus a third simply named ‘Nord Cameroon Rythms’ constitute the entire discography of Hamad Kalkaba. Neglected for decades by all but the most devoted collectors of Afro music, Hamad Kalkaba and the Golden Sounds at long last gathers together the body of work of one of Cameroon’s forgotten geniuses.

But unlike many musicians who emerged from nowhere, recorded a few singles and vanished again, Kalkaba hadn’t disappeared. Far from it. He was a distinguished public figure, a retired Colonel in the army of Cameroon, and a former member of Cameroon’s Olympic Selection Committee. When we tracked him down he was serving as president of the Confederation of African Athletics. And Although Kalkaba’s job kept him busy, and he seemed initially dismissive of the music he’d made as a young man, he turned out to be an enthusiastic ally in this project. He arranged interviews, helped fill in the blanks and, when we finally met him in Yaoundé in 2016, provided us with photographs, lyric sheets and notes.

During the interview Kalkaba explained how the songs recorded in the mid 1970s were part of a movement, a movement initiated by musicians from all around Cameroon who, with the help of keyboards, drum kits and electric guitars, had started to modernise the traditional rhythms of their regions. For Kalkaba it was no different and backed by his band the Golden Sounds, devoted himself to the promotion of the sounds of northern Cameroon.

One of the aims of Analog Africa is to showcase the colourful diversity of styles that exist in Africa and its diaspora and today we are very proud to be able to give these Gandjal tunes their first worldwide release.

Hamad Kalkaba and the Golden Sounds 1974 - 1975

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Jawa Jawa (remixed)

Some people asked me for Part 2...

20 min of pure vibraphone and marimba sound. 

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Cal Tjader - Speak Low
Mulatu Astatke and his Ethiopian Quintet - Mulatu's Hideaway
Roy Ayers Ubiquity - Ain't No Sunshine
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Andrea Benini African Mix

this mix celebrates the release by Mulatu Astatke &amp; the Heliocentrics on Strut UK, for Onsa Records Tokyo, june 2009.


a kiss before dawn - a tribute to mulatu astatke & the heliocentrics

I am a drummer, composer, producer, dj and  brainchild of Mop Mop. 

Andrea Benini - Drumphilia Vol. 1 out June 22nd 2018 
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All Reworks available for FREE here http://mopmop.bandcamp.com/album/reworks

Official Discography

Releases :

Mop Mop - The 11th Pill (Album) - Tam Tam Studio Recordings 2005
Mop Mop - Perfect Day (12") - Dejavu 2006
Mop Mop - Kiss Of Kali Ep (12") - INFRACom! 2008
Mop Mop - Locomotive (Valique Remix) (Dig.) - INFRACom! 2008
Mop Mop - Kiss Of Kali (Album) - INFRACom! 2009
Mop Mop - Ash (Diesler Remixes) (Dig.) - INFRACom! 2010
Mop Mop - Ritual Of The Savage (Album) - INFRACom! 2010
Mop Mop - Ritual Of The Savage Remix EP (Dig.) - INFRACom! 2010
Mop Mop - Isle Of Magic (Album) - Agogo Records 2013
Remixed: A Tropical Reconstruction (EP) - Agogo Records 2013
Mop Mop - Isle Of Magic Remixed (DIGI) - Agogo Records 2014
Mop Mop - Lunar Love (Album) - Agogo Records 2016
Mop Mop - Lunar Love Remixed (EP) - Agogo Records 2017

Remixes :

Valique - Where is The Love - Mop Mop remix - Freestyle 2009
[re:jazz] - Luv Connection - Mop Mop remix - INFRACom! 2010
Bajka - The Beaver's Lesson - Mop Mop ja remix - Chin Chin 2010
Valique - Kick Out Party - Mop Mop clap & kick remix - Iskra Disco 2011
Rime - Demon Above - Mop Mop stoned soul remix - INFRACom! 2011
Jazzinvaders - Tullip Juice - Mop Mop re-construction - Social Beats 2011
Bahama Soul Club - Experience in Jazz - Mop Mop remix - Bujù 2011

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