Happy 2014 !! Selection Of The Week : Voodoo In Cotonou (Anos Band de Parakou, Black Santiago, Vincent Ahehehinnou, Poly Rythmo..)

Happy 2014 to everyone, I wish you the best for this new year !!!!

Sincerely sorry for the delay, been reaaaally busy those days, preparing some good surprises for you my dear readers but.. it's a secret !

Let's begin 2014 with a brand new 7 inches selection from the beautiful country of Bénin, hope you'll enjoy those little treasures taken from my collection that I've cleaned, selected and masterized just for you !

The next selection will come quick ! (I hope..) Thanks for your support !

Armand de Préseau - Voodoo In Cotonou

You can download this Selection here (as usual, right clic and "Save as")

Sincerely yours,

Armand

Tracklist :

1 - Ignace de Souza et L'Orchestre Black Santiago - Paulina
2 - Orchestre Blacks Dragons de Cotonou - Se Djro
3 - Vincent Ahehehinnou - Kourougninda Wende
4 - Orchestre Anos Band de Parakou - Alassane Koda Maradi
5 - Orchestre Blacks Dragons de Cotonou - E Sa F'aiye
6 - Gnonnas Pedro y sus panchos de Cotonou - L'indomptable Gnonnas Pop
7 - Orchestre Anos band de Parakou - boro non andou nan
8 -  D'almeida Blucky et L'orchestre Black Santiago - Les Nanes
9 - Melome Clement Et L'Orchestre Poly Rythmo - La Fin De L'Ete
10 - El Rego - Divogny Din Ton Le

New Selection Soon !

                                     Picture by the great Malian Photographer Malick Sidibé

Hi Everyone,

Sorry for the delay, I've been very very busy this last month - I will post some new selections and tracks soon, thanks a lot for your support !

See you soon for a Beninese selection !

Sincerely yours,

Armand

Selection of the Week : Take Me Back To Lagos, Nigeria (Mansion /Celebrant / Identicals / Visitors / Mary Afi Usuah / Super Wings..)

Hi dear readers !

It's been a while since the last time we met ! This week, we travel to Nigeria, this strange and continuously moving country, with a few tracks from several well known Afro Rock / Funk and Disco bands back in the 70's ! Hope you'll enjoy this selection, it took me some time to prepare it, because those LP's are reaaally hard to find nowadays, especially in such exceptional condition !

See you really soon for another Selection !

You can download the selection here (as usual, right clic, "save as")

Armand de Preseau - Take Me Back To Lagos

Tracklist :

1 - The Visitors - Togetherness

2  - Mansion - Devil Woman

3 - The Identicals - Akwa Kayi Ji Bia Nuwa

4 - The Celebrant - Funky Music

5 - Mary Afi Usuah - What's A Woman to Do

6 - Clement Djimogne - Africa

7 - Etubom Rex William - Disco Baby

8 - MFB - Boredom Pain

9 - Super Wings - Men of the People

Sincerely yours,

Armand

Selection of the week : The Malian Selection (Orchestre Rail Band, Kene Star de Sikasso, Idrissa Soumaoro among others..)

Hi dear readers !

As promised (for a looong time), here comes the Malian Selection, 9 tracks of pure deepness from this beautiful country - Hope you'll like it !

Armand de Preseau - The Malian Selection

You can download the mix here (right clic, "save as")

Tracklist :

1 - Le Kene Star de Sikasso - Fitiriwale

2 - Rail Band - Mouo Dilo

3 - Idrissa Soumaoro et l'Eclipse de l'IJA - Nissodia

4 - Orchestre Kanaga de Mopti - N'do N'do

5 - Le Mystere Jazz de Tombouctou - Wale

6 - Le super Djata Band de Bamako - Zani Djabate

7 - Le Super Biton National de Segou - Siseni

8 - Idrissa Soumahoro - Toi que j'aime

9 - L'orchestre Rail Band du Buffet Hotel de la Gare de Bamako - Badialan Mallet

Sincerely yours,

Armand

Selection of the week : The Ethiopian Journey / A travel into the Ethio sound of Addis-Abeba back in the 70's

Hi dear readers !

I'm actually in the Southern France (remember St Tropez ?) for 2 weeks, tanning near the deep blue sea, drinking ti punchs and mojitos, but I've prepared something special for you !

I wanted for a loooong time to do an Ethiopian selection, (but I wouldn't because I think the Ethio sound is too "a la mode"..), so here are 9 tracks taken from several seven inches intended to make you (re)discover the beauty and the deepness of the Ethio sound from the 70's.

Ethio Jazz, Ethio soul, Ethio groove or Ethio funk, nevermind how you can call it, this music sounds like no other, because of the Ethiopian Pentatonic scale, that was a source of inspiration for many musicians of all genre.

Hope you'll like it !

Armand de Preseau - The Ethiopian Journey

You can download it here (right clic, "save as")

See you soon for the (too) long awaited Malian selection !

Tracklist : 

Mohamud Ahmed - Ambassel

Menelik Wossenachew - Chereka

Bizunesh Bekele - Tigel New

Tilahun Gessesse - Wey Min Tilik

Menelik Wossenachew - Menew Bacher Kere

Bahta Hiwot - Tessassategn Eko

Bizunesh Bekele - Inramed

??? - Yewyen Abebaie

Menelik Wossenache - Mekaberene Liyew

New Selection : Bon baisers de Fort-de-France : A Selection of Fine Biguines and Jazzy Tracks From the French West Indies

Hi everyone !!!

It's a reaaaal pleasure to be here with you after these 2 months !!!! Sincerely sorry for the delay, too much work (yes I have a job), and just the time for me to dig for my dear readers some records from all over the world : Zambian records, Ethiopian stuff, records from Turkey, Morrocco, Guyana..

So to celebrate the rebirth of this blog, I've prepared one (short) selection (yes, from now I will select only 6 records for each mix, to avoid a too long and boring stuff !) of Carribean Biguines and Jazzy tracks from several records taken from the 30's to the 80's - Enjoy the ride !

Next week we'll travel to Mali,

Sincerely yours,

Armand

Armand de Preseau - Bons Baisers  de Fort-de-France

You can download the selection here (right clic, save as)

New selections soon !!!

Hi dear readers,

Sincerely soooorry for the delay, I've been very busy these weeks, new selections very soon !

All the best,

Armand