Cameroon Garage Funk
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“Cameroon Garage Funk” is a compilation of “obscure” tracks from 1964 to 1979.
Yaoundé, in the 1970´s, was a buzzing place. Every neighbourhood of Cameroon´s capital, no matter how dodgy, was filled with music spots but surprisingly there were no infrastructure to immortalise those musical riches. The country suffered from a serious lack of proper […]
Bwana Zoulou Gang – Kayembé (1987)
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Quand des musiciens africains rencontrent des musiciens français en 1987, ça donne “Bwana Zoulou Gang”.
L’époque voulait ça aussi à Paris (milieu – fin des années 80), avec de multiples croisements artistiques à tous les niveaux, avec des artistes eux-mêmes actifs dans différents domaines. [...]
EKO – Kilimandjaro My Home
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Bandleader Eko, Eko Roosevelt Louis, went from Cameroonian music prodigy to chief of an idyllic seaside village.
Kilimandjaro My Home is an album released in 1977.
Eko Roosevelt Louis has had a music career spanning over forty years, born the grandson of a Kribi tribal chief, his musical persuasion beginning humbly with his village’s local church […]
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Funky Disco Music – EKO
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A trip to 1979 with “Funky Disco Music”, from Eko’s eponym third LP.
Eko Roosevelt Louis has had a music career spanning over forty years, born the grandson of a Kribi tribal chief, his musical persuasion beginning humbly with his village’s local church before his formal education at the Senegal conservatoire and Paris’ Ecole Normale […]
Eko Roosevelt Louis – Tondoho Mba
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Exclusive track by Eko Roosevelt Louis on STRAIGHT FROM THE DECKS by Guts, originally recorded for the “Musical Flowers of Cameroon” compilation (1982).
Franck Biyong – Fe Bain
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From album Ki I Ye Yi (“The one who doesn’t know knows” in Basaa language) by Franck Biyong.
“Fe Bain, also known as Fai Mbu, is a frantic cover of a track produced by Manu Dibango for the great Cameroon singer & trombonist Francis Ndom, for the 1982 ‘Fleurs Musicales du Cameroon‘ compilation.” […]
Clarisse Albrecht – Não Posso Parar
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Born to a French father and Cameroonian mother, Clarisse Albrecht split her childhood between Guinea-Bissau, Mozambique and France.
Her nickname “Mulata Universal” comes from a poem written by a friend on Copacabana’s beach in Rio De Janeiro, saying that when she smiles with all her heart and soul, she becomes a “mulata universal.” [...]
Jo Tongo – Jangolo
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Our hero, Jo Tongo (born Joseph Ekambi Tongo Mpondo) was raised in Douala, Cameroon. In 1964 he headed off to Paris to begin Pharmaceutical studies.
Somewhere along the way the music in his soul eventually won out and he embarked on a life of music. In 1977, he produced and recorded his debut self titled […]
