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Harumi

Fire By The River

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The roots of Angolan popular music explored in the meticulous guitar studies of Mário Rui Silva 1980s albums.

Whether on mesmerising acoustic ballads or hypnotic groove-led tracks, the music of Angolan guitarist, researcher and intellectual Mário Rui Silva has a beguiling, melancholy quality, woven into the dynamics of his deft guitar playing.

Rhythmically complex yet supremely effortless, the music collected here stems from three albums Mário released in Luanda in the 1980s that reflect his diverse range of influences, from traditional Angolan and West African rhythms to European jazz and classical instrumentation.

It is united by a sense of low-key beauty, whether on the chugging opener ‘Kazum-zum-zum’, the jazz-funk keys of ‘Lembrança Dum Velho’, or the twinkling, late-night poly-rhythms of ‘Kizomba Kya Kisanji’.

Born in Luanda, Angola in 1953, Mário dedicated his life to Angolan popular music. His fifty-year career has seen him live between Angola and Europe, rub shoulders with Cameroonian musicians Francis Bebey and Ewanjé, record the seminal album Angola ’72 with fellow Angolan musician Bonga, and draw influence from Brazilian guitarist Baden Powell.

It was the teaching of Angolan legend and Ngola Ritmos co-founder Liceu Vieira Dias that Mário gained a technical, political and spiritual understanding of Angolan musical culture. In the hands of Liceu, the traditional Angolan semba and kazukuta rhythms of the 1940s and ‘50s helped create an emancipatory sense of national pride and collective agency that awakened its listeners to the racism and tyranny of colonial rule, underpinning the country’s push for independence in the process.

What might sound like the intonations of Brazilian influence are what Mário attributes to the “African rhythms taken by the slaves [which] gave rise to other musical cultures” around the globe. Instead, this music emerged from a collective instinct to assert a cosmopolitan Angolan identity free from the patronising falsehoods of Lusotropicalism.

“There was a need within me to contribute in doing new things,” Mário describes. “In the sense of solidifying the music of Angola that was the result of the meeting of two cultures, and wanting to value the Angolan part whenever possible.”

A selection from Mário’s three 1980s albums, Sung’Ali (1982), Tunapenda Afrika (1985) and Koizas dum Outru Tempu (1988) have been compiled here as a 2xLP release by Time Capsule’s Sam Jacob and Kay Suzuki. Together, they provide a snapshot of one man’s journey to the core of his nation’s music, charged with the search for a culture uprooted by colonialism.

Artist: Mário Rui Silva
Title: Stories From Another Time 1982-1988 
Label: Time Capsule
Cat Num: TC013 / TIME013
Release: 25th June 2021
Genre: World, Jazz, African
Style: Semba
Format: Double LP with liner notes & pictures + digital
Remaster : Stuart Hawkes (Metropolis Studios, UK)

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Stories From Another Time 1982-1988

03 Dembita

Volta

Every Time

Antonio Adolfo - Aonde Voce Vai

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The first in the series of the all-Brazilian collection on Mr Bongo that now spans eight volumes

Orlandivo - Ondo Anda A Meu Amor

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Moussa Doumbia - Keleya

The second track from Moussa in as many records, and deservedly so.

Keleya is a organ lead, afro-funk bomb with Moussa in full James Brown effect. Taken from the LP of the same title, originally released in 1977 on Pathe, and on 7” by Ivory Coast label SID in 1974. Suffice to say, they are expensive and rare.

Released on 7” in 1974, but very hard to find, and expensive too!

Amadou Balake - Super Bar Konon Mousso

Razor sharp, percussion heavy, guitar lead afro-latin funk.

Taken from the LP of the same name, released by the legendary Sacodisc label run by Lassisi (from Ivory Coast). Sacodisc were the a groundbreaking label experimenting in Afro-Latin crossovers - Balake travelled to the USA in the 1970’s to record with salsa musicians - recording and releasing albums with the likes of Monguito, Labi Sosseh, the great Amadou and Sweet Talks from Ghana.

Moussa Doumbia - Keleya

Can’t you give me something good
Something good to hold onto
Something sweet to distract me 
Something sweet to get me through
Gotta shine like the stars above
C’mon fill up the world with your love

Sometimes I can’t help but start to get the blues
Most often right after I been reading in the news
Feels like I been walking with a stone stuck in my shoes
Sometimes it gets so bad seems like there’s nothing left to lose

Help me save me please
From this monsoon of gloom
A la brea tar pit full of need
Stuck in a quagmire of desire
Help me I can’t breathe
I’m in an avalanche of greed 
In this absence of innocence
Caught in a hurricane of pain

Can’t you give me something good 
Something good to hold onto
Something sweet to distract me
Something sweet to get me through
Gotta shine like the stars above
Gotta fill up the world with your love


Gotta Shine

Coney Island Baby

Charley's Girl

A refreshing percussive-heavy edit of one of Bebey's best.

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Antonio Adolfo - Aonde Voce Vai

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