Tag: James Brown
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They dig real deep at We Are Busy Bodies – three highlights: Graham’s General Store, Eboni Band and the Malombo music of Philip Tabane
We Are Busy Bodies continue their distinctive and enlightening release schedule, with a forthcoming self-titled album Graham’s General Store. The Canadian label drops this sumptuous folk music around October, another direction to their work after recent highlight releases of Ghanian highlife, South African jazz and the must hear Eboni Band reissue. “The songs on Graham’s General…
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Eboni Band and their self-titled album fused Motown sounds and West African flavour, soon to be reissued by We Are Busy Bodies – it features the must-have p-funk-afro anthem ‘Sing A Happy Song…’
Here’s another choice reissue forthcoming from the Canadian label, We Are Busy Bodies – with this meeting of Motown and West African musicians – on Eboni Band’s self-titled 1980 debut album. It’s the first reissue of the album, featuring musicians such as Fred Wesley, first released more than 40 years ago. This label has hit…
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Jo Bisso is celebrated by Africa Seven on their ‘African Disco Experimentals (1974 to 1978)’ comp’ – the Cameroonian was immersed in NYC disco and made epic tracks of lavish dancefloor funk
Jo Bisso can be seen to have ‘crossed over’ into the disco underground more than many other African artists of the era (achieving repeated success for his consistent endeavour and stylised sound) – Your Love being a famous dancefloor staple of different eras – but this new compilation by Africa Seven (African Disco Experimentals (1974…
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