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| Disc: 1 |
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| 1. Gandigui (Bariba Soul) |
| 2. Wegne´Nda M´Banza (Bariba Soul) |
| 3. Me Ton Le Gbe (Pachanga Fon) |
| 4. Abakpé (Afro Beat Bariba) |
| Disc: 2 |
| 1. Guessi-Guéré-Guessi (Pop Bariba) |
| 2. Sembe Sembe Boudou (Folklore Dendi) |
| 3. A Na Gan Garo Ka Nam (Afro Beat Bariba) |
| 4. Bori Yo Se Mon Baani (Pachanga Dendi) |
| Disc: 3 |
| 1. Aske (Folklore Dendi) |
| 2. Ko Guere (Folklore Bariba) |
| 3. Abere Klouklou (Cavacha Dendi) |
| 4. Hanoubiangabou (Soul Dendi) |
| Disc: 4 |
| 1. Dadon Gabou Yo Sa Be No.2 (Afro Beat Dendi) |
| 2. Bininhounnin (Dendi Boucher) |
| 3. Adiza Claire (Cavacha Bariba) |
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The new (11th) Analog Africa album release is another report from West Africa’s 70s Islamic Funk Belt, a recently anointed area that includes Ghana, Togo, Burkina Faso and Benin, from where this disc’s stars Le Super Borgou de Parakou originate. Extensive sleeve-notes tell us the band began as a covers outfit, performing Congolese Rumba hits. But eventually, just like musical visionaries all over the world who rediscover indigenous, home-grown musical tradition and project it into the future by drawing in other sounds, Le Super Borgou turned their attention to the musical past of their Bariba and Dendi people. At the same time they were listening to the imported records that bandleader Moussa Mama’s dad brought them.
The results collected here are, at times, like heavy, inner-city funk songs powered by claustrophobic breakbeats, stalking bass lines, and wiggy guitars and keyboards distorted and wah-wahed into agreeably tinny weirdness by wholly unsuitable amps. Le Super Borgou de Parakou appeared on Analog Africa’s third release, African Scream Contest: Raw & Psychedelic Afro Sounds from Benin & Togo, but here they enjoy a full-hour’s playing time. A good thing, too, because these propulsive, groovy tracks need time to percolate and allow the near-transcendental repetition favoured by West African, Saharan and Islamic bands to hypnotise fully. The traditional harmonies and melodies, meanwhile, are as flowery and psychedelic as anything by Brazil’s Tropicalia bands.
If there’s even a slim chance of discovering another old band as potently joyful as this lot then we have one instruction for Analog Africa: back to the Islamic Funk Belt!
--Chris Parkin
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