Great compilation featuring material extracted from their BUUR & Musicafrique LP's, covering 1973-74 to 1978. "Jin ma jin ma", "Souleymane", the amazing JB's like funk knocker "Kelen ati leen"
Great compilation featuring material extracted from their BUUR & Musicafrique LP's, covering 1973-74 to 1978. "Jin ma jin ma", "Souleymane", the amazing JB's like funk knocker "Kelen ati leen"
Zulu male vocal jive w/ jazz swing influences as recorded by the famous South African doo wop group. Record is V++ to E w/ a few minor marks & visible dirt wear & light pressing noise
Palm wine music from Liberia sung in Kroo langugage by a large male group w/ acoustic guitar & percusssions & whistle or flute. Dirt on labels. Record has marks & pressing noise, still a very decent
Ghana Horn highlife double sider by one of the country's leading groups of the genre. Apparently the very first release on 78rpm of tunes later compiled on their "Happy highlife" 1960 10" LP. Sleeve
8 tracks compilation (contrarily to the 4 tracks LP version) featuring material taken from their Sacodis "Affair social"' LP + 2 tunes taken from their impossible to find Disco Stock releases,
8 tracks compilation (contrarily to the 4 tracks LP version) featuring material taken from their Sacodis "Affair social"' LP + tunes taken from their impossible to find Disco Stock label releases,
Swinging uptempo horn highlife winner on A side & a down tempo deep highlife as recorded the Nigerian ibo artist, and alter compiled on his 1961 Decca 10" LP Sleeve has creases, small white stains on
Hardly googleable highlife & march recorded by the Gold Coast police band, from what is now Ghana. Likely recorded in the late 30's or early 40's. Peel off on A label. Record is V- w/ pressing noise &
Ghanaian trumpet highlife 1950's rarity on the scarce collectible France label. Sleeve is V w/ aging & dirt, writings, minor tears on mouth. Record is G+ w/ constant strong noise from marks &
Highlife double sider by one of Ghana's leading 50's-60's groups. Some wear & writings on labels. Record is cracked on half radius and has some surface marks, numerous clicks but no skip.
Pre independence Highlife double sider 78 rpm only rarity recorded in the early 50's by the Ghana trumpet legend and his group. Writings & some light dirt on labels, record has constant reasonable
Hardly googleable Nigerian 78rpm w/ male spoken word and a short percussion part at the end of each track, too short to mention at end of A side, while B side's part is available on clip 3 below
Zambian folk music, bite on edge but it didn't reach the grooves, surface marks & opaque pressing colouration, plays with light noise.
An uptempo guaracha cover of a Noro Morales composition & a samba as recorded by the Paris based group. Sleeve has aging & dirt, small tears along mouth & edges, record has marks and light noise.
Great calypso double sider by one the 40's & 50's lesser recorded artists. Record plays w/ strong noise from numerous marks & is completely opaque from pressing or overplaying.
An instrumental march & a blues sung in Fanti as recorded by this Police big band from former Gold Coast, today Ghana. Small writing on B side label, light wear on labels. Record has cosntant
Jazzy biguine double sider on top as recorded by the famous French Caribbean group. Minor noise from marks & pressing.
Swing jazz & doo wop influenced South African zulu vocal jive w/ banjo sung by male & female. Record is cracked on half radius, side Aplays quite well but B side has multiple clicks.
Cuban music on top as recorded by this Uruguay group, includes a guaracha mambo & a mambo mislabelled as beguine sung in english. Record is E, sounds great, only some very thin marks.
compilation of hard to catch late 60's Afro latin recordings made by the Guinean guitarist & the Malian flutist. Pachangas & boogaloos mostly, with a very distinctive African approach, much heavier
compilation of hard to catch late 60's deep manding & Afro latin recordings made by the Guinean guitarist & the Malian flutist. Pachangas & boogaloos mostly, with a very distinctive African approach
compilation of hard to catch late 60's deep manding & Afro latin recordings made by the Guinean guitarist & the Malian flutist. Pachangas & boogaloos mostly, with a very distinctive African approach
Ungoogleable highlife tracks recorded by Nigerian artist and sung in Efik language. Sleeve is F has dirt, creases, small writings, bite on one of the bottom seam corners, dark brown water damage stain
Electric guitar & sticks backing for this male vocal duet recording by the legendary Kenyan guitarist. Blank label test press.
Ultra rare Ghana trumpet highlife sung in fanti language. Likely from the 1950's on scarce JZ series. Promo copy. Record is V- w/ pressing noise & marks, still quite an enjoyable copy
Ungoogleable Benin brass band instrumental double sider w/ large horn section & heavy percussion work. Definitely unusual as I haven't heard any brass band recorded out of Benin before. Numerous marks
Male vocal soloist with male vocal group backing & percussions likely from former Dahomey / today's Benin and recorded in the 1930's or early 40's. Light dirt on labels. Record in clean shape with
A bolero and a tango as released for the legendary HMV sublabel. Record is V- w/ light marks & dirt residues & constant reasonable surface noise.
More electric guitar music w/ percussions & male vocal duet out of Kenya in top shape. Blank label test press.
