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CELLULOID - NEW AFRICA 3

This is the third in Celluloid's NEW AFRICA series featuring, Toure Kunda, Ghetto Blaster, Mandingo, Fela Ransome-Kuti, Tony Allen, Ginger Baker and Manu Dibango.

  1/  Na Waya -                                  (Archibong,Ngor)              5.51
        Ghetto Blaster
  2/  Black Man's Cry (edit) -                   (Ransome-Kuti)                6.13
        Fela Ransome-Kuti
  3/  Pata Piya -                                (Dibango,Laswell)             6.35
        Manu Dibango
  4/  N.E.P.A. (edit) -                          (Allen,Obajmi Jr.)            4.19
        Tony Allen
  5/  Natalia -                                  (Sixu Toure)                  4.52
        Toure Kunda	
  6/  Africa Lelly -                             (I. Toure,S. Toure)           4.33
        Toure Kunda	
  7/  Natural Dancer (edit) -                    (Suso)                        6.11
        Mandingo
  8/  Mountain Time -                            (Baker,Dieng)                 6.04
        Ginger Baker

          Recorded at a variety of locations
          Track 1 produced by Ghetto Blaster
          Track 2 produced by Fela Ransome-Kuti
          Track 3,5 and 8 produced by Bill Laswell for Material/OAO
          Track 4 produced by Abdul Azeez Rahman-Johnson
          Track 6 produced by Barracuda
          Track 7 produced by Bill Laswell for Material/OAO and Foday Musa Suso
          Executive Producer : John T. Matarazzo

(3) Manu Dibango : tenor, baritone and soprano sax, piano, DX-7, vocals; Wally Badarou : Yamaha DX-7, Oberheim OB-8; Bill Laswell : DMX, Fairlight CMI, AMS; Nicky Skopelitis : guitar; Aiyb Dieng : jimbe, talking drum, cowbell, chatan; Valerie Lobe and Brice Lobe : drums, percussion; Joseph Kuo : Simmons drums; Jerry Malekani and Vincent Nguini : guitar; Francis Mbappe : bass, vocals; Florence Titty Dimbeng and Sissy Dipoko : vocals; Segona Peter Tholo : trumpet; (5) Ismalia, Sixu Tidiane &Ousmane Toure : vocals, percussion; Bernie Worrell : Prophet 5, synthesizer, fairlight CMI; Foday Muso Susa : kora, talking drum; Aiyb Dieng : chatan, cowbell, jimbe, percussion; Nicky Skopelitis & Jean-Claude Bonaventure : guitar; Roger Chyco Dru : bass; Michel Abissira : drums; Michael Billiez & Ben Belinga : saxophones; Nabou Diop : vocals; Alain "Loy" Ehrlich : piano; Lionel Jouot : trombone; Christian Martinez : trumpet; (7) Foday Musa Suso : kora, dousongoni, kalimba, talking drum, lead drums; Joe Thomas : bass; Abdul Hakeen : guitar; Adam Rudolph : Hamid Drake : drums; Reymond Sillah : dundungo; Robin Robinson, Isatou Wlker & Nora Harris : background vocals; Aiyb Dieng : talking drum, chatan; (8) Ginger Baker : drums; Daniel Ponce : bata, bells; Aiyb Dieng : talking drum, chatan, bells.

          1988  -  Celluloid (USA),  CELD6139  (CD)






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