Delve into West Africa's decade-delayed funky polyrhythmic take on psychedelia. From the Gold Coast to Cameroon, traversing the territory of Jimi Hendrix and James Brown, this album is an African assimilation of the psychedelic revolution - distorted, political, hallucinogenic, and, of course,...
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Delve into West Africa's decade-delayed funky polyrhythmic take on psychedelia. From the Gold Coast to Cameroon, traversing the territory of Jimi Hendrix and James Brown, this album is an African assimilation of the psychedelic revolution - distorted, political, hallucinogenic, and, of course, danceable. Thousands of miles from the Summer of Love's utopian origins, yet somehow, not so far away...
“Rock's Summer of Love dispersed utopian thoughts, wah-wah pedals and fuzzboxes around the world to places including West Africa. There, in the late 1960's and early 1970's, bands added them to already simmering local concoctions of tradition and funk. "World Psychedelic Classics 3: Love's a Real Thing - The Funky Fuzzy Sounds of West Africa" (Luaka Bop) collects a dozen sterling examples: Gambian garage-rock, modal Malian funk, a Guinean-Cuban guajira with a wah-wah lead and a proto-electro protest song by William Onyeabor from Nigeria. The equipment now sounds charmingly vintage, but the rhythms still jump.”
-Jon Pareles, Sundays Arts and Leisure "Playlist"
Complete artist and track listing below:
01. Orchestre Poly-Rythmo de Cotonou Dahomey: Minsato Le, Mi Dayihome
02. Super Eagles: Love's a Real Thing
03. Moussa Doumbia: Keleya
04. Manu Dibango: Ceddo End Title
05. Sorry Bamba: Porry
06. No. 1 de No. de 1: Guarjira
07. William Onyeabor: Better Change Your Mind
08. Ofo & The Black Company: Allah Wakbarr
09. Gasper Lawal: Awon-Ojise-Oluwa
10. Bunzu Sounds: Zinabu
11. Tunju Oyelana & the Benders: Ifa
12. Orchestre Regional de Kayes: Sanjina
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