(Merengue MPA-4056).
Blind accordeon player Domingo Luis Garcia (Minguito) recorded throughout the 70s with various bands from Angola as Os Kiezos, and here with Conjunto Merengue on this beautiful 7 inch.
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Carlos Alberto "Katchas" Martins - Broda (Funana pioneer and Bulimundo mentor, 1977)
(DMC 111-101).
One aspect I could not guess when I begun Muzzicaltrips blog, is the number of people around the world it would lead me to meet or to exchange with. Today's post comes from one of theses interesting exchanges, as it's a contribution from Norway, proposed by Olav Aalberg, great connoisseur of music from Cabo Verde:
Dangerous trips to Angola by Muzzicaltrips (semba, merengue, kizomba selection from Angola 70s)
Muzzicaltrips taking part of various musical projects including radioshows, I'd like to share some "dangerous trips" or "viagens perigosas" in Angola realised recently for Radio Capsao. A special musical selection based on dusty records, archives from golden era from this country culturally influenced by portuguese colonists, by other lusophone colonies, by Cuba and the Caribbean, and for sure by specific african musical heritage. Wars and instability during the 60s to 80s also influenced a unique musical production : semba, merengue, kizomba, but also political music and struggle songs (or propaganda songs, depending on point of view), reflecting a wide spread imperialist oppression feeling.
Luis Morais em La Bonanza - La Murga Panamero
(Morabeza Records 6810 254).
Cabo Verde being on the road between Africa and the Caribbean, latin covers regularly appear. This Luis Morais LP includes a murga (credited to W. Calon and H. Lavon!), a cumbia (Lisandro Meza) and some other tropical rhythms.
La Bonanza was the name of the club in Rotterdam where Luis Morais' previous band (Voz de Cabo Verde) used to play during the late 60s.
Toquinho - Carolina
Just a brazilian groove classic... simply Toquinho!
Toquinho - Carolina Carol Bela:
Bonga / Tiao / Jo Maka - Racines (1978)
(Playa Sound SF202).
A kind of "Black Atlantic" musical mixture is here well represented with this album from Bonga (Angola), Tiao Tocha Perazzo (Brazil) and Jo Maka (Guinea). Slaves from Benin, Angola and Congo were transplanted in brasilian Nordeste. From these african roots, afro-brazilian generations developed both sacred music (candomble) and popular music (samba). This beautiful album is a nice way to meet up again musically.
Tiao Rocha Perrazo: voice, guitar, berimbau, cavaquinho
Bonga: voice, reco-reco, surdo, gaita
Jo Maka: alto and soprano sax
Rubens: bass
Ferando Falcao: surdo, triangle
Abel Lima e Les Sofas cantam Nos Bida (1977)
Abel Lima is a singer from Cabo Verde islands, forced to clandestine imigration by boat at age of 13 to escape the totalitarian regime.
He came back 16 years later, when Cabo Verde became independant in 1975, as politically engaged with PAIGC (Amilcar Cabral's African Party for Independance of Guinea an Cabo Verde).
In the liner notes, Abel Lima explains the evolution of his home village Povoaçao: he quit a small peaceful village and when he came back he discovered only desolation as more sophisticated foreign fishing boats were fishing extensively, letting local people without any resources. In parallel, he also explains through his own experience how hard being an imigrant is, due to mistreatment and exploitation.
A very engaged artist, which seems to be compatible with raw funky tune...
Abel Lima e Les Sofas - Corre riba corre baixo:
Bernard Brito (Joaozinho): bass
Serge Neves: drums
Abel Lima: voice
Afonso Evora (Martinho): guit
Nouhoun Coulibaly: voice, tumba
Admir Evora (Mimis): guit, recoreque
David Zé - Merengue San Antonio (1974)
Rebita R:1128
Fabricado por FADIANG (Fabrica de Discos de Angola)
From the 60s, electric wave hit Angola with a big influence from northern neighbor Congo and his typical electric guitar rhythms. But more traditional Angolan rhythms like semba or rebita are also often integrated into new music productions, same way as external influences (from Brasil or West Indies, including merengue) which made Angolan music a really rich and rhythmically diversified mixture, despite the few quantity of vinyls that could survive up to now.
Mangalha - The biggest vinyls collection in Angola
Jose Henrique Ribeiro, famous in Luanda as "Mangalha", comes back in this interview on his vinyl collector experiences in Angola.
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