Afrosouldescarga n°14-In between

Last thursday & sunday of the month on Radio Grenouille 88.8fm (Marseille)

Rose Mitchell-Baby Please Don't Go
Faye Adams-The hammer keeps a knockin'
Etta James-Nobody Loves You Like Me
Segun Bucknor - Adanri Sogbasogba
Orlando Julius Ekemode-Home Sweet Home
The Semi-Colon-Our fada part1
The Uniques-Give me another chance
Soul Chargers-In between
Tex Soul & The Bayonets-Osi na ngada
Ebo Teylor - What is life
Darondo - Sexy mama
Barney Wilen-Moshi Too
Barney Wilen-Two Twenty-Three
Tony Tete Harbor & The Stars heaters Of Nigeria - Tete Muo Bu Muo
Charlotte Dada-Don't Let Me Down
Miriam Makeba - Chove-chuva
Nina Simone-Blackbird

Afrosouldescarga n°14-In between by James Stewart !

Palmwine Radio show n°35-Merengue Babalou

Selection for my monthly participation of the Palmwine Radio Show. Congolese Rumba from the fifties, Highlife from Nigeria, Calypso, Cha-cha and Algerian proto-raï. Enjoy !

1-Rock a Mambo-Oye Jacquy
2-Camille Howard-Shrinking up fast
3-Blind Blake & The Victoria Royal Hotel Calypsos-Love, love alone
4-I.K Dairo & his Blue Spots-Ladejola oginni
5-Cardinal Rex Lawson's & his Mayor's Band-Sawale
6-Macbeth the Great-Buy me a zeppelin
7-Adeolu Akinsanya (Baba Eto) & The Western Toppers Band-Kankan alo
8-Rock a Mambo-Merengue babalou
9-Alex Acosta-El tucan (porro)
10-African Jazz-Mokonzi ya mboka
11-Lalo Guerrerro u sus Conco Lobos-Los chucos suaves
12-Nico Gomez-Perdido cha-cha
13-Eddie Palmieri -Oigo un tumbao
14-Kako & su Orchestra-La mengua melodica
15-Idrissa Diop & Cheik Tidiane Tall-Yaye boye
16-Chief Stephen Osita Osadebe - Ngozy Ka
17-Boutaiba Sghir-El Fermlia
18-Orchestre National de Mauritanie-Oumletna ("La Mone")

Joe Mensah-The Afrikan hustle (LP, Polydor,mid-70s)

Just few words before, normally all the dead links are reloaded, if not, let me know....

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1-Bonsue (words & music by Joe Mensah)

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1-Ye gbawa o Baba (Tribute to Nigeria, Yoruba language) (words & music by Joe Mensah)
2-Rokpokpo ((words & music by O Ofori))
3-Berebere (Trad, adapted by Joe Mensah)

Joe Mensah-The Afrikan hustle

Intersting LP from the great musician from Ghana, Joe Mensah. It was recorded in Lagos with the Sweet Talks (Ghana) and some Fela's musicians like the baritone player Lekan Animashaun. The album sounds like Modern highlife from the seventies, especially because of the sound of Mensah's keyboards. "Bonsue" is still a hit in Nigeria and Ghana like you can see in the youtube video I found on the great Osibisaba blog.

Joe Mensah-Bonsue by James Stewart !

Intéressant album du ghanéen Joe Mensah, grand bonhomme du highlife ghanéen. L'album a été enregistré à Lagos avec les Sweet Talks, un des meilleurs groupes ghanéens des années 70, ainsi qu'avec une paire de musiciens de Féla comme le sax bariton Lekan Animashaun. L'album sonne highlife avec une touche de modernité (de l'époque, mi-70) en particulier grace aux claviers et synthé de Mensah. Le morceau que j'ai mis en écoute, "Bonsue", est toujours un tube au Ghana, comme le prouve l'excellente version d'Ebo Taylor et Ambolley que j'ai trouvé sur l'excellent blog consacré au Ghana Osibisaba. Et enfin pour les rythmiciens, encore à propos de "Bonsue", l'intro de ce morceau est une véritable leçon de rythmique higlife...

Eddie Palmieri, Kako 45T (Barclay, Alegre)

Perfect latin 45 with those killers cha-cha tracks from Eddie Palmieri and his first Conjunto, La Perfecta. There's only one track of Kako, "La lengua melodica", the three others are from one of the first album of the little one of the Palmieri brotherhood.

Eddie Palmieri 

Eddie Palmieri & Kako (45t, Barclay, Alegre)
1-Tema de la perfecta
2-Oigo un tumbao
3-La mengua melodica
4-Mi isla preciosa

Jazz & Bourbon by James Stewart n°2

Second Jazz selection for my friend from Jazz & Bourbon !

Langston Huges & Charles Mingus - Blues montage 1955
Kenny Burrell - Chitlins Con Carne 1963
Wes Montgomery - Full house 1962
Dave Pike - Besame Mucho
Nina Simone - Just Say I Love Him 1961


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Chief Bukka & his cultural group of Okrika (LP, Willysco Records, 1980)

Traditionnal music from the Okrika people recorded in 1980. Okrika is a port near Port Harcour in the Niger delta, it used to be one of the biggest slave port in the 18th century. It's now one the more polluted place in Nigeria because of the oil industry. This traditional music is really different from Juju or Fuji, it's the only LP I got from this kind of music. Hope you'll enjoy as I do...If you like this kind of traditionnal music, you'll find some more on the great Likembe blog...


Chief Bukka & his cultural group of Okrika

Chief Bukka & his cultural group of Okrika by James Stewart !


Otherwise, I know that there a lot of dead link in my first posts, I'm working on it....And since I have more time now than in the past months, I'll put more LP in the coming weeks...

Afrosouldescarga n°13 - Urban Africa

1-Orchestre Konono Molende - Makonda-Mbuta
2-Obura Jabilo - Kengue Kengue Orutu system
3-Orcheste sankai
4-Masanka Sankayi - Le laboureur
5-Neba Solo - La déception
6-Molobali Keita
7-Konono n°1 - Paradisio
8-Kisanzi Congo - Soif conjugale
9-Baloji & Konono - Aribu ya bintou
10-Janka Nabay - Eh congo

Afrosouldescarga n°13 - Urban Africa by James Stewart on Mixcloud

Jazz & Bourbon Selection - Special - James Stewart #1

Little Jazz selection I've made for a friend's Jazz mixtape...Enjoy

Blossom Dearie - Tout Doucement 1956
Sun Ra - Enlightenment 1958
Lorez Alexandria - Nature Boy 1962
Chico Hamilton & Eric Dolphy - It Don't Mean A Thing 1958
Herbie Hancock, Donald Byrd, Pepper Adams - Curro's 1961
Les Double Six - Naïma 1961

Jazz & Bourbon Selection - Special - James Stewart #1 by Jazz & Bourbon on Mixcloud

Palmwine Radio Show n°31 by James Stewart

1-Conjunto Cucalambe - Tonada De Corte Andaluz En Punto Menor (Tonada)
2-Franco & Le Tout Puissant OK Jazz - Likambo ya ngana
3-Arsenio Rodriguez - Adivinalo (1947)
4-Ensemble "Seguidores del Son" Guane - Todo Eso (Son Montuno)
5-Orchestre de la Paillote - La Guinée moussolou
6-Bebo Valdés & His Havana All Stars - Dile A Catalina
7-Paulina Alvarez - El verdurelo
8-Andreas Landero - La Pava Congona
9-Gnonnas Pedro - Adika (El Carreterro)
10-Poncho Sanchez- Baila baila
11-N'Guewel - Xadim
12-Cheo Feliciano - Guaganco te decido
13-Miryam Makeba - Teya teya (alternate version)
14-Sir Victor Uwaifo - Mother Witch - Shu'husu'hu
15-Nkengas -  William Emeka Omambala

Ballade entre le Cuba des racines et l'Afrique des années 60. De la rumba cubaine à la congolaise, on passera par les grands orchestres d'Arsenio Rodriguez, Bebo Valdes (le père de Chucho) aux formations plus intimistes du Béninois Gnonnas Pedro ou du colombien Andreas Landero, le tout soupoudré de highlife nigerian...Bon voyage

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Afrosouldescarga n°12- Radio Mali

Une sélection spéciale Mali moderne pour cette 12e édition d'Afrosouldescarga pour Radio Grenouille (Marseille 88.8 fm ou Radiogrenouille.com). Chaque 4e jeudi du mois de 12h à 13h. On souhaite à nos amis Maliens des jours meilleurs...

1-Toba Seydou Traoré - Samafaga Mugu
2-Lobi Traoré - Juguya magni
3-Lamine Sangaré et Mariam Dembélé - Danama
4-Sali Sidibé - Musée
5-Alou Fané - Baba No. 2
6-Fanta Wassolou  - Aye Waraba Ye
7-Neba Solo - Vaccination
8-Thialé Arby - Handjire Foutou
9-Yoro Diallo - (Untitled 1)
10-L'Orchestre Sidi Yassa de Kayes - Wéréwérénci
11-Ali Farka Touré - Savane

Afrosouldescarga n°12- Radio Mali by James Stewart !