VA - African Scream Contest Vol.2 - Benin 1963-1980 (2018)
VA - African Scream Contest Vol.2 - Benin 1963-1980 (2018)
EAC Rip | FLAC (tracks+log+.cue) - 385 Mb | MP3 CBR 320 kbps - 171 Mb | 01:09:43
World, Afrobeat, Funk | Label: Analog Africa
EAC Rip | FLAC (tracks+log+.cue) - 385 Mb | MP3 CBR 320 kbps - 171 Mb | 01:09:43
World, Afrobeat, Funk | Label: Analog Africa
A great compilation can open the gate to another world. Who knew that some of the most exciting Afro-funk records of all time were actually made in the small West African country of Benin? Once Analog Africa released the first African Scream Contest in 2008, the proof was there for all to hear, gut-busting yelps, lethally welldrilled horn sections and irresistibly insistent rhythms added up to a record that took you into its own space with the same electrifying sureness as any favourite blues or soul or funk or punk sampler you might care to mention.Tracklist:
Ten years on, intrepid crate-digger Samy Ben Redjeb unveils a new treasuretrove of Vodoun-inspired Afrobeat heavy funk crossover greatness. Right from the laceratingly raw guitar fanfare which kicks off Les Sympathics’ pile-driving opener, it’s clear that African Scream Contest II is going to be every bit as joyous a voyage of discovery as its predecessor. And just as you’re trying to get off the canvas after this one-punch knock out, an irresistible Afro-ska romp with a more than subliminal echo of the Batman theme puts you right back there. Ignace De Souza and the Melody Aces’ “Asaw Fofor" would’ve been a killer instrumental but once you’ve factored in the improbably-rich-to-the-point-of-being-Nat-King-Cole-influenced lead vocal, it’s a total revelation.
The screaming does not stop there, in fact it’s only just beginning. But the strange thing about African Scream Contest II’s celebration of unfettered Beninese creativity is that it would not have been possible without the assistance of a musician who had been trained by the Russian secret services to "search and destroy" enemies of the country’s (then) Marxist-Leninist president Mathieu Kerekou.
Already familiar to fans of the first African Scream Contest as a mainstay of ruthlessly disciplined military band Les Volcans de la Capitale, Lokonon André vanished in a cloud of dust at Ben Redjeb’s behest with a list of names and some petrol money, only to return a few days later having miraculously tracked down every single name he’d been given. The source of this Afrobeat bounty-hunter’s impressive people-finding skills - his training with the KGB - highlights the tension between encroaching authoritarian politics and fearless expressions of personal creative freedom which is the back-story of so much great African music of the 60s and 70s. Happily, in this instance, Lokonon was tracking the artists down to offer them licensing deals, rather than to arrest them.
Where some purveyors of vintage African sounds seem to be strip-mining the continent’s musical heritage with no less rapacious intent than the mining companies and colonial authorities who previously extracted its mineral wealth, Samy Ben Redjeb’s determination to track this amazing music to its human sources pays huge karmic dividends.
Like every other Analog Africa release, African Scream Contest II is illuminated by meticulously researched text and effortlessly fashion-forward photography supplied by the artists themselves. Looming large - alongside Lokonon André - in the cast of biopic-worthy characters to emerge from this seductive tropical miasma is visionary space-nerd Bernard Dohounso, who laid the foundations for Benin’s vinyl predominance by importing and assembling the turntables that would play the products of his Bond villain-acronymed pressing plant SATEL, a factory that would revolutionise the music industry in the whole region.
The scene documented here couldn’t have been born anywhere else but in the Benin Republic , and the prime reason for that is Vodoun. It’s one of the world’s most complex religions, involving the worship of some 250 divinities, where each divinity has its own specific set of rhythms, and the bands introduced on the African Scream Contest series and other compilations from that country were no less diverse than that army of different Gods. At once restless pioneers and masters of the art of modernising their own folklore, the mystic sound of Vodoun was their prime source of inspiration.
One especially irascible Vodoun-adept was Antoine Dougbe, who styled himself “The devil’s prime minister” while turning ancestral rhythms into satanically alluring modern beats. As Orchestre Poly-Rythmo songwriter Pynasco has observed sagely, “Evil is not elsewhere, evil extends into the house”. And African Scream Contest II is a gloriously cinematic road-trip through an undiscovered realm of music lore whose familiarity is every bit as thrilling as its otherness.
1. Les Sympathics de Porto Novo – A Min We Vo Nou We (06:17)
2. Ignace de Souza & The Melody Aces – Asaw Fofor (02:55)
3. Stanislas Tohon – Dja Dja Dja (07:41)
4. Elias Akadiri & Sunny Black's Band – L'Enfance (02:10)
5. Picoby Band D'Abomey – Mé Adomina (02:41)
6. Antoine Dougbé – Nounignon Ma Klon Midji (05:54)
7. Orch. Poly-Rythmo de Cotonou – Moulon Devia (07:35)
8. Black Santiago – Paulina (04:46)
9. Lokonon André et Les Volcans – Glenon Ho Akue (04:53)
10. Sebastien Pynasco and L'Orchestre Black Santiago – Sadé (05:13)
11. Super Borgou de Parakou – Baba L'Oke Ba'Wagbe (03:16)
12. Cornaire Salifou Michel et L'Orchestre El Rego & ses Commandos – Gangnidodo (04:55)
13. Gnonnas Pedro and His Dadjes Band – How Much Love Naturally Cost (06:19)
14. Orchestre Poly-Rythmo de Cotonou – Idavi (05:07)
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African Scream Contest 2 / rican Scream Contest 2
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African Scream Contest 2 / rican Scream Contest 2
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