LONDON IS THE PLACE FOR ME 7: CALYPSO MENTO JOROPO STEEL & STRING BAND by VARIOUS ARTISTS
| SKU | 111528 |
| Artist | VARIOUS ARTISTS |
| Title | LONDON IS THE PLACE FOR ME 7: CALYPSO MENTO JOROPO STEEL & STRING BAND |
| Label | HONEST JONS RECORDS |
| Catalog # | HJRLP 77 |
| Tag | |
| Release | W 49 - 2019 |
| Format | Vinyl - UK2LP |
| € 22,50 | incl. VAT, excl. shipping |
Tracks
- Lord Beginner - Sons And Daughters Of Africa
- Lord Beginner - Sons And Daughters Of Africa
- The Mighty Terror - The Hydrogen Bomb
- Dai Dai Simba - Modern Telephone
- Willie Payne & The Starlite Tempos - Wa Sise
- The Mighty Terror - The Emperor Of Africa
- Louise Bennett - Bongo Man
- Marie Bryant - My Handy Man
- Nigerian Union Rhythm Group - Tortoise Mambo
- Calypso Rhythm Kings - Boul Ve Se
Description
Still deeper forays into the musical landscape of the Windrush generation.
A dazzling range of calypso, mento, joropo, steelband, palm-wine and r’n'b. Expert revivals of stringband music, from way back, alongside proto-Afro-funk.
An uproarious selection of songs about the H-Bomb and modern phones, prostitution and Haile Selassie, mid-life crisis and the London Underground, racism and solidarity, the Highway Code and a 100% West Indian Royal Wedding.
For example some frantic British-Guianan joropo music-hall about Eatwell Brown from Clapham, who starts out biting off a piece of his mother-in-law’s face at a party, then devours everything in his path… a chunk of Brixton Prison, a Union Jack, a policeman’s uniform. Or Marie Bryant — collaborator of Lester Young and Duke Ellington — taking time off from skewering the South African PM Daniel Malan at her West End revue, to contribute some arch, swinging filth about uber-genitalia.
Superior sound, courtesy of Abbey Road, D&M and Pallas; lovely gatefold sleeve; full-size booklet, with full notes, and fabulous previously-unseen photographs, including a set from the family archive of Russ Henderson (who led the first, impromptu Notting Hill Carnival march, in 1966).
01. Lord Beginner - Sons And Daughters Of Africa
02. The Lion - Royal Wedding
03. The Mighty Terror - The Hydrogen Bomb
04. Dai Dai Simba - Modern Telephone
05. Willie Payne & The Starlite Tempos - Wa Sise
06. The Mighty Terror - The Emperor Of Africa
07. Louise Bennett - Bongo Man
08. Marie Bryant - My Handy Man
09. Nigerian Union Rhythm Group - Tortoise Mambo
10. Calypso Rhythm Kings - Boul Ve Se
11. The Mighty Terror - Life Is Like A Puzzle
12. The Mighty Terror - Chinese Children
13. Bill Rogers - Hungry Man From Clapham
14. Lili Verona - Underground Train
15. The Lion - Highway Code
16. Billy Sholanke - Kana Kana
17. Calypso Rhythm Kings - L’Année Passée
18. Lord & Lady Beginner - One Morning
19. West African Rhythm Brothers - Ema Foju Ana Woku
20. Trinidad Steel Band - Caroline
