CALYPSO FROM WEST AFRICA by MARVELLOUS BOY

Marvellous Boy celebrates the West African counterpart of the 1950s Soho scene uncovered in Honest Jon's series London Is The Place For Me. Issuing from centuries of to-ing and fro-ing between England, the West Indies, and West Africa, the same musical styles — calypso, highlife, jazz — overlap, proliferate, and adapt, with local traditions freshened up and thrown into the mix. With numerous faces and reference points cropping up in both milieux, this music-making is brimming over with the same passion for life, sparkling topicality, and extravagant, magpie creativity. Check!