Thursday, February 17, 2011

Bembeya Jazz National - Parade Africaine,
Syliphone Conakry SLP 39, 1973



















From 1973 an album by one of West Africa's biggest
bands. Big as in very popular and known all over. On this
LP we find the fantastic Camara Aboubacar Demba singing
on 6 out of 8 songs if I'm not mistaking. Listen to
this tribute to the man who died in a tragic
car accident april 5, 1973.
Hail, Camara Aboubacar
Demba.

tracks;

1 Touraman
2 Moussogbe
3 Dia
4 Demba
5 Payapaya
6 Sou
7 Senero
8 N'gnamakoro

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3 comments:

Toto said...

Amazing
Always great to hear Bembeya with the wonderful Demba Camara.
To hear their version of Tira makan is a real treat, many many thanks.

Jaime said...

Very, very nice album. I'm always amazed by the greatness of the Syliphone records. Thank you!

RhythmCxn said...

Thanks for this great album. In case you are interested, I've just posted another Syliphone recording, Special Recuieil-Souvenir, from 1977.

http://rhythmconnection.blogspot.com/