Maybe, I am the only one who had not noticed this so far but there's a tsunami of African music revival. Possibly on the wake of the Vampire's success, it consist in reissues of records that were actually never released outside their respective countries/regions in first place.
So like the Russians after the fall of the Berlin wall, we are discovering the music of the 60's and 70's consisting in:
- Nigerian Funk/rock and disco on Soundways
- Nigeria 70 on Strut
- the "legends of Benin" and the truly incredible Orchestre Poly-Rythmo de Cotonou (on Analog Africa)
- Ethiopian Jazz through Ethiopique and in particular Mulatu Astatke on Strut
- Ghana Specials and Ghana Soundz on Soundways
- etc., etc.
So like the Russians after the fall of the Berlin wall, we are discovering the music of the 60's and 70's consisting in:
- Nigerian Funk/rock and disco on Soundways
- Nigeria 70 on Strut
- the "legends of Benin" and the truly incredible Orchestre Poly-Rythmo de Cotonou (on Analog Africa)
- Ethiopian Jazz through Ethiopique and in particular Mulatu Astatke on Strut
- Ghana Specials and Ghana Soundz on Soundways
- etc., etc.
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