World music, compiled by Stan Rijven.
There will be no 32nd edition of the Africa Festival in Hertme next week, but there will be the 25th anniversary of Dias Latinos in Amersfoort https://diaslatinos.nl
A good reason for a Mariama broadcast entirely dedicated to the Afro-Latin Connection.
“The connections between African and Latin music run long and deep. The rhythms of Africa were taken to the New World by slaves and came back in the form of Cuban and Antillean records that would inspire Africa’s own musical renaissance. Africans called this music ‘rumba’, though it covered a whole range of Hispano-Caribbean styles and rhythms. It was modern music. It belonged to the bigger, wider world. It meant progress. But its roots were in Africa, and as far as Africans were concerned, it belonged to them. So to an entire generation of Africans that came of age in the 1950s and ‘60s, Latin music became a means of transcending colonial alienation. It was their own modern music”.
This is the cover text of the beautiful compilation “Rumba on the River”. An overview of 60 years of Afro-Latin connection!
Playlist:
- ET Mensah- John B Calypso (± 1958)
CD: E.T.Mensah & The Tempos, All for you, Classic highlife recordings from the 1950s (RetroAfric- 1998)
- Grand Kallé & African Jazz- Independence Cha Cha (1960)
CD: African Pearls 1: Congo Rumba On The River (Syllart- 2006)
- Franco & OK Jazz- Cuento Nama (1965)
CD: African Pearls 1: Congo Rumba On The River (Syllart- 2006)
- Las Maravillas de Mali- Canto del Gaujiro (± 1965)
CD: Las Maravillas de Mali (Melodie- 1999)
- Etoile 2000- El Carretero (1970s)
CD: Dakar Sound Volume 1 – Etoile 2000
- Number One De Dakar- Guantanamera (1970s)
CD: Nr 1 De Dakar- Dakar Sound- Vol3- Latin Thing (1994)
- Baobab- Ray M’bele (begin ‘80)
CD: Pirates Choice (World Circuit- 1989)
- Gil Semedo- Lambazouk (2011)
CD: Sempre Lider (Giva- 2011)
- Africando All Stars, ft Thione Seck- Sey (2000)
CD: Mandali (Stern’s- 2000)
- Dexter Johnson- El Manicero, ft. Laba Sosseh (1970s)
CD: Serie Sangomar 2 ft. Dexter Johnson (Dakar Sound- 1999)
- Sam Mangwana- No me digas no (1980s)
CD: No me digas no (Blue Silver-1995)
