ANALOG AFRICA

  • In 1997, a quiet, unassuming man of 59 years old named Victor Tavares (better know as Bitori) walks into a studio for the very first time to record a masterpiece which many Cabo Verdean consider to be the best Funaná album ever made. Bitori's musical adventure had begun long before this point. It...

    BITORI - Legend Of Funaná - LP

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  • The - No Food Without Taste If By Hunger - ANALOG AFRICA (LP) | Guerssen

    We are delighted to announce the release of "The Good Samaritans", the 20th compilation in our Analog Africa Limited Dance Edition serie. This project focusses on the band The Good Samaritans from Benin City, Nigeria, highlighting the gray eminence of Edo Funk, Mr Philosopher Okundaye. Originally...

    GOOD SAMARITANS, The - No Food Without (...) - LP

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  • HALLELUJAH CHICKEN RUN BAND - Take One (1974-1979) - ANALOG AFRICA (LP) | Guerssen

    In 1972, the country of Rhodesia - as Zimbabwe was then known - was in the middle of a long-simmering struggle for independence from British colonial rule. In the hotels and nightclubs of the capital, bands could make a living playing a mix of Afro-Rock, Cha-Cha-Cha and Congolese Rumba. But as the...

    HALLELUJAH CHICKEN RUN BAND - Take One (...) - LP

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  • Leon - Leon Keita - ANALOG AFRICA (LP) | Guerssen

    A fixture on the Malian music scene, Leon Keïta was born in Conakry on the Atlantic coast of Guinea in 1947. After completing his studies he found his way to the Malian capital where, in addition to founding the Piano Jazz Orchestra, he worked as a teacher, organiser of cultural festivals, and...

    KEITA, Leon - Leon Keita - LP

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  • 1971-1974 - ANALOG AFRICA (LP) | Guerssen

    Following Analog Africa's '70s Peruvian cumbia compilation by Ranil, they decided to return to Latin America to highlight the work of one of Perú's undisputed masters of the electric guitar: Manzanita. This 13th release in the 'Limited Dance Edition Series' includes 14 mostly instrumental...

    MANZANITA Y SU CONJUNTO - Trujillo-Perú, (...) - LP

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  • MESTRE CUPIJÓ E SEU RITMO - Siriá - ANALOG AFRICA (LP) | Guerssen

    Cametá, a historical little Amazonian town on the shores of the river Tocantins, is the birthplace of the scorching music known as 'Siriá'; a cross pollination between the music of the inhabitants of the quilombos, a Brazilian hinterland settlement founded by escaped slaves of African origins,...

    MESTRE CUPIJÓ E SEU RITMO - Siriá - LP

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  • The - The Movers Vol 1 - 1970-1976 - ANALOG AFRICA (LP) | Guerssen

    The story of The Movers began in 1967 when two unknown musicians - the brothers Norman and Oupa Hlongwane - approached Kenneth Siphayi a stylish and wealthy businessman from the Alexandra township to ask if he could buy them musical instruments. In return he would receive a cut from future life...

    MOVERS, The - The Movers Vol 1 (...) - LP

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  • An adept of folk rhythms, Mack-Joss's career as a musician began when he was just 17 of age and he quickly established himself as a staple of Libreville's nightlife scene, singing in various local bands. By 1966 he had released "Le Boucher", his first hit which swept the African airwaves and earned...

    ORCHESTRE MASSAKO - Orchestre Massako (...) - LP

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  • Antonio - Buli Povo - ANALOG AFRICA (LP) | Guerssen

    "Antonio Sanches provided the "out of space" lead track on the Label's seminal "Space Echo" compilation. Impossible to find for many years, the sound of "Buli Povo!" is just as arresting and mesmerizing today as it was on the day it was released. It has just taken us thirty-five years to catch up...

    SANCHES, Antonio - Buli Povo - LP

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  • When it came out in 1984 the far-out album Sweet Sweet Dreams by Trinidad & Tobago's Shadow (aka Winston Bailey) was described as "way ahead of its time". Undeservedly it was panned by critics and, unable to reach markets, disappeared into the dusty record collections of a few music aficionados....

    SHADOW - Sweet Sweet Dreams - LP

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  • Formed in 1980 by guitar prodigy Leonardo Vela Rodriguez, Sonido Verde de Moyobamba created some of the hardest, craziest Cumbia to emerge from the Peruvian jungle. With distorted, surf-addled guitar facing off against lysergic organ and hyperactive tropical rhythms, Sonido Verde conjured the...

    SONIDO VERDE DE MOYOBAMBA - Sonido Verde de (...) - LP

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  • VARIOUS ARTISTS - Angola Soundtrack 2 (2LP) - ANALOG AFRICA (2LP) | Guerssen

    In 2010, against all odds, Angola Soundtrack Vol.1 was awarded the German Record Critics' Prize in the category 'Black music'. This victory was all the sweeter for its triumph over the predicted winner, Aloe Blacc 's multi platinium record, 'Good Things'. Many were surprised that the award was...

    VARIOUS ARTISTS - Angola Soundtrack 2 (...) - 2LP

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  • VARIOUS ARTISTS - Edo Funk Explosion vol. 1 (2LP) - ANALOG AFRICA (2LP) | Guerssen

    "The skeletal composition and the relentless exploitation of synthesizers, electric guitars and '80s effect racks resulted in a spiced up psychedelic brew known as Edo Funk!" It was in Benin City, in the heart of Nigeria, that a new hybrid of intoxicating highlife music known as Edo Funk was born....

    VARIOUS ARTISTS - Edo Funk Explosion (...) - 2LP

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  • VARIOUS ARTISTS - Jambu E Os Míticos Sons Da Amazonia (2LP) - ANALOG AFRICA (2LP) | Guerssen

    The city of Belém, in the Northern state of Pará in Brazil, has long been a hotbed of culture and musical innovation. Enveloped by the mystical wonder of the Amazonian forest and overlooking the vastness of the Atlantic Ocean, Belém consists of a diverse culture as vibrant and broad as the...

    VARIOUS ARTISTS - Jambu E Os Míticos (...) - 2LP

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  • VARIOUS ARTISTS - Mogadisco (2LP) - ANALOG AFRICA (2LP) | Guerssen

    'Mogadisco' was not Analog Africa's easiest project. Tracking down the musicians -often in exile in the diaspora- to interview them and gather anecdotes of golden-era Mogadishu has been an undertaking that took three years. Tales of Dur-Dur Band's kidnapping, movie soundtracks recorded in the...

    VARIOUS ARTISTS - Mogadisco (2LP) - 2LP

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  • VARIOUS ARTISTS - Cameroon Garage Funk (2LP) - ANALOG AFRICA (2LP) | Guerssen

    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 recording facilities, and...

    VARIOUS ARTISTS - Cameroon Garage (...) - 2LP

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  • VARIOUS ARTISTS - Essiebons Special 1973-1984. Ghana Music Pow (2LP) - ANALOG AFRICA (2LP) | Guerssen

    Dick Essilfie-Bondzie was all ready for his 90th birthday party when the Covid pandemic hit. The legendary producer, businessman and founder of Ghana's mighty Essiebons label had invited all his family and friends to the event and it was the disappointment at having to postpone that prompted Analog...

    VARIOUS ARTISTS - Essiebons Special (...) - 2LP

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  • "This compilation, the first of its kind dedicated to the history of the sonidero movement, is a masterpiece" Sonido Imperial (Mexico) In 2010, I had asked Eamon Ore-Giron - aka DJ Lengua - if he would be interested in compiling a Latin project for Analog Africa, and if so, if he had a theme in...

    VARIOUS ARTISTS - Saturno 2000. La (...) - 2LP

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  • Less than a hundred miles inland from the capital City of Lima lies the great Peruvian jungle, an untamed land of impenetrable forests and endless winding rivers. In its isolated cities, cut off from the fashions of the capital, a unique style of music began to develop, inspired equally by the...

    VARIOUS ARTISTS - Perú Selvático (...) - 2LP

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  • In the decades after the second world war, outer space was on everyone's mind and the 'space race' of the 1950s and 60s not only produced groundbreaking efforts to launch artificial satellites, send space probes to Mars and land a human on the moon, it also had a huge impact on the movie and music...

    VARIOUS ARTISTS - Ecuatoriana – (...) - LP

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  • In the decades after the second world war, outer space was on everyone's mind and the 'space race' of the 1950s and 60s not only produced groundbreaking efforts to launch artificial satellites, send space probes to Mars and land a human on the moon, it also had a huge impact on the movie and music...

    VARIOUS ARTISTS - Ecuatoriana -El (...) - LP

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  • In the spring of 1968 a cargo ship was preparing to leave the port of Baltimore with an important shipment of musical instruments. Its final destination was Rio De Janeiro, where the EMSE Exhibition (Exposição Mundial Do Son Eletrônico) was going to be held.It was the first expo of its kind to...

    VARIOUS ARTISTS - Space Echo (2LP) - 2LP

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