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Voices Radio / Back to Mine

Balearic inspired vinyl selection inspired by the long drives around Ibiza over this summer period.  With no destination in sight, a voyage into the cosmos that's from the heart for the heart.

This is an excerpt from an all night vinyl set at Brilliant Corners.
Just 2 technics turntables, a Bozak rotary mixer and four Klipschorn custom speakers that provides the ultimate in audible pleasure.

https://thevinylfactory.com/features/brilliant-corners-custom-sound-system-bbc-technics-turntable-console/

Demi Live @ Brilliant Corners

The Eyetone Show #2 Voices Radio 02/06/2022

The Eyetone Show #1 Voices Radio   17/04/22

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"Curating this segment is always a thrill, letting me dig deep into my collection—records that would otherwise gather dust. 'Deep' reflects the influences that shaped my musical palette long before I touched turntables, but the real joy is in crafting a cohesive selection"

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DjeuhDjoah & Lieutenant Nicholson - Tout Le Monde Pense

Tracklist & download available here: http://boilerroom.tv/recording/afrobuddha

Afrobuddha Boiler Room London DJ Set

Tracklist & download available here: : http://boilerroom.tv/recording/lo-fi-odysseys/

Lo-Fi Odysseys Boiler Room London DJ Set

Curated by @JaysonWynters & @LoFiOdysseys

Jayson Wynters + Power Mix

Cameroon, 1978: it’s like any good western movie. A man drifts through the plains at the furthest edge of the country in search of two former gunslingers, hoping to coax them out of retirement for one last showdown. Except this time, the weapons are guitars and the gunslingers are Jean Gabari and Messi Martin – the calm sheriff and his hot-headed deputy – who had led the band Los Camaroes to superstardom at the beginning of the decade.

Los Camaroes emerged at the end of the 1960s from the town of Maroua in the northern, predominantly Islamic area of Cameroon. After changes in name, in lineup and in management, they worked their way south to the capital to make a name for themselves; in the span of only a few years they changed Cameroon’s music scene forever, leaving a trail of sold-out nightclubs and monster radio hits in their wake. Then, at the height of their popularity, they broke up. 

The band had been led from the beginning by Jean Gabari, whose level-headedness and even-handedness inspired the respect and devotion of his musicians. But it was Gabari’s alchemical collaborations with guitarist Messi Martin that drove the band to its greatest heights. Martin had developed an innovation that would earn him fame throughout Cameroon as the “king of Bikutsi”, as Johnny Cosmos explains: 

“The primary instrument in Bikutsi is the balafon, and Messi came up with a trick that consisted of chewing small pieces of paper until they reached the right consistency and then stuck them between the strings of the guitar. This trick, which made a guitar sound like a balafon, catapulted him to stardom and turned him into the founder of Modern Bikutsi.” (Check the song “Bezimbi” to hear Messi Martin´s wizardry on a Bikutsi tune)

Martin’s extraordinary talents were matched by a character of great unpredictability. He had been lured away from the band before by the promise of success and, in 1975, when Los Camaroes were at the peak of their power, he left them once again. Gabari tried to keep the band going, but his own longstanding battles with ill health eventually forced him to return to his hometown. With Gabari and Martin gone, the rest of the musicians drifted away in search of other gigs. By 1978, Los Camaroes were no more than a rapidly fading memory.

But then came the resurrection.

From out of nowhere, a businessman named Atangana Joseph appeared in northern Cameroon. His goal: to track down the original members of Los Camaroes and get them back together for their one final shot at immortality. The musicians reconvened at the legendary Mango Bar in the capital city of Yaoundé, the very place where, years earlier, they had established their reputation as one of Cameroon’s most fearsome live bands.

Producer Nicolas Mongué and engineer Emmanuel Guyssot were called in from Douala to record what was being billed as a comeback album. There was talk of going into a studio, but Los Camaroes had always thrived on the energy of the nightclub scene; they decided instead to record it live to two-track in the Mango Bar.

The album, Resurrection Los Vol. 1, was completed in only a few days. There would be no Volume 2. The music that emerged during the Mango Bar sessions was the culmination of a fifteen year musical bond between Gabari and Martin, and what was supposed to be a comeback album ended up being a last testament — Gabari would die only a few years later and Martin, without his foil, would never find the same level of musical success. Even at the time, these two titans of Cameroon’s music scene seemed to realise it would be the last time they would ever work together. The resurrection of Los Camaroes was short-lived … but it produced a masterpiece.

Resurrection lOS

Resurrection Los - Los Camaroes

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