Afrique en rêves (Vol.6)

TERANGA BEAT proudly presents BAI JANHA alias "Sweet Fingers" and his psychedelic steamroller KARANTAMBA. Composer, arranger, guitar player of GUELEWAR & IFANG BONDI, BAI JANHA is undisputedly the most important musician to have come from GAMBIA. Band leader of the groups BLACK STAR, WHALES BAND, FABULOUS EAGLES & SUPREME EAGLES, founder of the group ALLIGATORS who later became the GUELEWAR, BAI is the one who created the unique psychedelic sound in the region of SENE-GAMBIA, mixing traditional compositions with Soul, his musical innovations contributed to the domination of AFRO-MANDING music in West Africa for more than a decade.  

This record presents BAI JANHA with his last group, KARANTAMBA, a school for young musicians, in a totally unreleased recording, recorder in Thiès (Senegal) at "SANGOMAR" Club the 16th of August 1984. The double gatefold LP's liner notes and CD's booklet include more information and photographs outlining all the way of the living legend's musical career and the wicked percussive rhythms and compositions of this album. We hope you will enjoy!


Karantamba - Sama Yai

THINKIN' OF YOU  (feat. Nick Skiadopoulos on Harp)

In partnership with Teranga beat, the current leading label for Senegalese music, Analog Africa proudly offer an insight into the musical adventures that were taking place in the major Senegalese cities during the 60s and 70s. 

It all started in 2009 when Adamantios Kafetzis travelled from Greece to Senegal with a brand new tape machine that he used to digitise the musical treasures he had discovered in the city of Thiés. These treasures took the form of reel tapes, and had been recorded by sound engineer Moussa Diallo, who had spent the previous four decades immortalising, onto magnetic tape, the bands that would later perform in his club, the legendary Sangomar. 

300 Senegalese songs that nobody had ever heard before were discovered - Five of them were selected for this compilation. 

Thanks to its history of outside influences, Senegal – the western point of Africa - had become a musical melting pot.  
Cuban and American sailors had brought Son Montuno from Cuba, Jazz from New Orleans and American soul tunes: sounds that were swiftly embraced and adopted by urban dance bands and intuitively merged with local music styles.

One band in particular excelled at this fusion. 1960 marks the formation of Le Star Band de Dakar, a milestone that left an indelible imprint on Dakar’s musical landscape. Indeed, the whole country was soon grooving to their intoxicating mixture of Afro Cuban rhythms and Wolof-language lyrics. 

The 1970s brought a new generation of stellar bands like Le Sahel, Orchestre Laye Thiam, Number One de Dakar, Orchestra Baobab, Dieuf Dieul de Thies, Xalam 1 who fused traditional Senegalese percussion instruments such Sabra, Tama and Bougarabou with organs and keyboards, giving birth to new hybrids. Merging the folkloric and the experimental, these sounds, embraced by the youth, took centre stage and gave the previously dominant Cuban music a run for its money.

With this burst of musical and artistic creativity, driven predominantly by the modern vision of President Senghor, Dakar began attracting international stars. The Jackson Five, James Brown, Tabou Combo (Haiti), Celia Cruz (Cuba) and an array of African stars like Tabu Ley Rochereau (Congo), Manu Dibango (Cameroon) and Bembeya Jazz (Guinée) joined in with the local scene, improvising jam sessions and bringing new flavours to a music scene that was always open to new inspirations and influences. Johnny Pacheco immortalised his passion for the city with a song called “Dakar, Punto Final”.

4 years in the making, this compilation, reflects the unique fusion of Funk, Mbalax, Cuban Son and Mandingue sounds that helped transform Dakar into West Africa´s most vibrant city. 

The comprehensive booklet that comes with the CD - 44 pages or with the 2xLP - 12 pages LP size booklet - are a precious document attesting to the decades of transformation that led to modern Senegalese music. Featuring biographies of music producers and a legendary record cover designer, as well as the life stories of all the groups represented here, the booklet also includes a fantastic selection of photos that have never seen before.


Mariama - Orchestre Fangóól (Leave a comment for Max Dia  - Singer/Composer - I will forward)

Lamb Ji

Lamb Ji (feat. Mbene Diatta Seck) (clip)

Buy digital here:
http://voodoocuts.bandcamp.com/track/a-son-magni-voodoocuts-edit

The 7" is already sold out.
"Carried by a tense guitar riff and incisive rhythm, A son magni evokes the bad character of his fiancee. For Cisse, a song must always convey a message. A song is not great but the content is according to a Bambara proverb. The song has been reedited by Voodoocuts and approved by Abdoulaye Cisse himself".
(Rocafort Records)

"With the Africa Gone Funkee release, you’ll experience 3 rare and funky 45’s from the Motherland. From Burikina Faso to Madagascar through Benin and Cameroun, from soul to funk through afrobeat, these six songs are sparkling pieces of the vast puzzle of modern African music". 
(Hot peas and butta)

"A prize gem in Rocafort's Africa Gone Funkee crown, "Aw' Ye Douba Ke" was the final salvo of Burkina-born Cisse's debut album Les Vautours. Kudos to the Rocafort crew for this 7" reissue! With its soft build, the classic highlife guitars play the perfect subtle backdrop for Cisse's strong yearning vocals as we develop into something really funky indeed with big horn and organ solos. Flip for a special, percussion-heavy shake-up of his 1975 single "A Son Magni". Overwhelming."
(Juno records)

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A Son Magni - Voodoocuts Edit 7"

@Soundway-records repress the only record from Nigeria's 'Sound Preisdent' who signed Fela Kuti to EMI Nigeria and produced all of Fela’s revolutionary early material from 1970-73.

Read more & buy: http://www.stampthewax.com/2016/08/01/odion-ikebe/
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Odion Iruoje - Ikebe (STW Premiere)

A song of longing for love lost and love to come, blending zulu folk and soul, 'I Found You' perfectly encapsulates something Spoek Mathambo's been looking for for a long time, a new paradigm to present South African sounds. Written in collaboration with Johannesburg based electronic-soul duo Kajama and Spoek's Fantasma band, 'I Found You' is from Spoek Mathambo's forthcoming album 'Mzansi Beat Code', out on 14th April 2017.

Available on all digital platforms (iTunes/Deezer/Spotify/Amazon etc)

MBC: Mzansi Beat Code

Spoek Mathambo - I Found U (feat Kajama & Fantasma)

TERANGA BEAT proudly presents composer Kyriakos Sfetsas and his Greek Fusion Orchestra, an artist with a truly multifaceted body of work. Sfetsas formed GFO in 1976, in  order to accomplish an ambition dating back to his 1960's Avant Garde period in Paris: to create a piece of work that would expand the boundaries of Greek traditional music. The result is a Progressive-Jazz Fusion masterpiece comprising complex and intriguing compositions, and performed by Athens' best musicians of the day. The recordings on this album, which form only a small part of his overall body of work, are previously unreleased and their quality is truly impressive. We sincerely hope you will enjoy them!

Greek Fusion Orchestra Vol.1

25/5/2018

Kyriakos Sfetsas - Γύφτικο Μοτίβο - Gypsy Pattern

Third Man Records is excited to announce their second Greek folk music compilation, Kitsos Harisiadis' Lament In A Deep Style 1929-1931. Another spellbinding compilation exploring the depths of overlooked Greek folk music from the curatorial genius Christopher King, Lament highlights the virtually unknown work of the heartbreakingly haunted hypnotic clarinetist Kitsos Harisiadis. Pre-orders of the album are available now. The compilation will be available in stores on June 1. Third Man Records first compilation of Greek folk music from Christopher King is Why The Mountains Are Black: Primeval Greek Village Music 1907-1960.

From 1929 through 1931, Harisiadis recorded instrumentals that have endured in the Epirotic repertoire well into the twenty-first century. Kitsos plays all fourteen pieces as if he were a Greek-Shaolin monk conversing with a grasshopper at his feet.

Through King's painstakingly thorough research and immersive storytelling, the listener is able to fully absorb the otherworldly aura that radiates throughout the release.

Painstakingly remastered directly from ungodly rare original 78 rpm discs and coupled with artwork by R. Crumb and design by Grammy Award-winner Susan Archie, the entire package is delightful in every sense.

Lament in a Deep Style 1929-1931

KITSOS HARISIADIS Lament in a Deep Style 1929-1931

Kitsos Harisiadis — "Skaros" off

The 86 and 88 Veseli Romi album are to my knowledge, some of the earliest Romani Synth album. It blends Synth and Drum machine sounds with Derbuka, clarinet, electric guitare and bass. It has though a very unique sound. 
     In most of the track, they most probably played the Casio CZ 101, used by many Balkan early Synth player, before the making of oriental Synth (Korg, Ketron...), i guess because of the wheel which enable the "vocal effect" and approach of the quarter tone and obviously the small size to carry it anywhere and the cheap price.

Veseli Romi Cocek "Ajd'mo U Planine

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