VA - Ivory Coast Soul: Afrofunk in Abidjan from 1972 to 1982 (2010)
Afrobeat, Funk, Soul, Afro-Jazz | MP3 320 kbps CBR | 76 min | 174 MB
Label: Hot Casa | Rel: 2010
What Casa Records has achieved with the issue of Ivory Coast Soul: Afrofunk in Abidjan from 1972 to 1982, is to release a formally licensed, wide-ranging collection of obscure music by numerous artists that most of the world has never heard of, let alone encountered. These 13 tracks were collected over three years by Djamel Hammadi (aka Afro Brazilero) in a dangerous crate-digging trip through Benin, Ghana, Togo, Mali, and Senegal. He and DJ Julian LeBrun made the final selection. The music included here was painstaking transferred from vinyl. What one hears on these sides is the influence of Western funk and soul, woven through with traditional rhythms, polyrhythmns, chants, and harmonics. Singing styles on most of these tracks reflect the then-new influence of post-colonial Pan-Africansim, an era when tradition made a strong comeback and created a new musical hybrid.