Harder Than Nails - new Afro 45s mix
Frank
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My main man in Ghana, Dankyi-Appah Safo Kennedy aka Ken has lately been spending some time exploring Northern Nigeria. After I got to talk to Albert Jones from the Freedom Family and Geraldo Pino's Heartbeats about the scene in Kano and Kaduna back in the 1970s, I was certain that there had to be records up there. This turned out to be true as Ken just express-mailed me an amazing box of 45s. Of course I couldn't resist but throw together a quick mix using some of these gems... a few boxes with LPs should arrive in a few weeks from now and once they get here, I'm sure another mix will follow shortly.
I'm not listing all tracks. Sorry for being so squirelly but I'm in the process of sourcing some of these tunes for possible re-issue and I don't want people chopping up my mixes and re-posting these tracks individually on YouTube or on one of those lame torrent sites...
http://traffic.libsyn.com/voodoofunk/KensChoice.mp3
00:00 Artist Unknown
03:03 Stoneface & Life Everlasting -Agawalam Mba
05:55 Segun Bucknor -Baby Get Your Thing
09:17 Artist Unknown
12:17 Artist Unknown
15:12 The Funkees -Onye Mmyaa
21:05 Geraldo Pino & The Heartbeats -Shake Hands (45 Version)
29:04 Tony Grey & The Zeinians -Do Your Thing
32:00 Artist Unknown
34:45 Showboy Eric Akaeze -I Will Tell Mama
40:43 Orchestre V??v?? -Talali Talala
44:48 Joni Haastrup & Monomono -Water Pass Gari (Or Gari Pass Water)
I'm not listing all tracks. Sorry for being so squirelly but I'm in the process of sourcing some of these tunes for possible re-issue and I don't want people chopping up my mixes and re-posting these tracks individually on YouTube or on one of those lame torrent sites...
http://traffic.libsyn.com/voodoofunk/KensChoice.mp3
00:00 Artist Unknown
03:03 Stoneface & Life Everlasting -Agawalam Mba
05:55 Segun Bucknor -Baby Get Your Thing
09:17 Artist Unknown
12:17 Artist Unknown
15:12 The Funkees -Onye Mmyaa
21:05 Geraldo Pino & The Heartbeats -Shake Hands (45 Version)
29:04 Tony Grey & The Zeinians -Do Your Thing
32:00 Artist Unknown
34:45 Showboy Eric Akaeze -I Will Tell Mama
40:43 Orchestre V??v?? -Talali Talala
44:48 Joni Haastrup & Monomono -Water Pass Gari (Or Gari Pass Water)
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Sorry... my mistake, the code didn't work. Let's try it the old fashioned way:
http://traffic.libsyn.com/voodoofunk/KensChoice.mp3
this mix is so tite. Thanks Frank.
The one at 40:44 is one of the two non-Nigerian tracks, Orchestre V??v?? "Talali Talala" and the next and last one is Monomono "Water Pass Gari (or Gari Pass Water)" Pt.1&2.
do you know if there was only the two monomono albums?
I only know "Give The Beggar A Chance" and "The Dawn Of Awareness" and a handful of 45s.
I once read somethign about an EP but never seen it.
Joni Haastrup recorded an album between The Dawn Of Awareness and his solo LP on Afrodisia that never got released. No idea if he recorded it with/as Monomono. Apparently it recently got lost when he fell behind with payments on his storage unit, alongside all his other master tapes and various memorabilia...what a painful thought...