Condition: Used
Various - Ouelele - Another Collection Of Modern Afro Rhythms
Label: Comet Records
Catalog#: COMET 009
Format: 2 x Vinyl, LP, Compilation
Country: France
Released: Nov 1999
Genre: Funk / Soul
Style: Afrobeat, Soul, Funk
Tracklist
A1 Letta Mbulu - What's Wrong With Groovin' 2:50
A2 Philip Cohran & The Artistic Heritage Ensemble - Unity 7:57
A3 J.M. Tim & Foty - Douala By Night 3:08
A4 Manu Dibango - Senga 3:02
B1 Smahila & The S.B.'s - African Movement 18:47
C1 Marius Cultier - Ouelele 4:40
C2 Ginger Johnson & His African Messengers - I Jool Omo 4:06
C3 Antibalas - World War IV 4:16
C4 Ghetto Blaster - Na Waya 5:45
D1 Fernando Gelbard - Alevacolariea 5:49
D2 Henri Guédon - Vulcano 5:53
D3 Batsumi - Lishonile 8:59
Letta Mbulu - What's Wrong With Groovin'
Incredible voice & musical arrangement.
discovered by the leaving legend of afrobeat and founder of Comet records: Manu Boubli on the ouelele compilation...
I am absolutely crazy about this song. Lifts my heart up..
from 12 different artists from the late '60s to the late '90s -- fuse Africa's native music with the jazz and funk devised by the descendants of Africans living in the West.
And so we have South African Letta M'Bulu's "What's Wrong With Groovin'," which swings as much as it grooves;
Soul-jazz meets South Africa
The Funk goes native on this heavy back-to-Africa collection of rare Afro-grooves from around the globe. Ouelele is an eclectic mixture of African and African-derived music from 12 different artists who deliver some of the heaviest rhythms known to man. Nothing hits harder than the hardcore Afrobeat of Smahila & The S.B’s epic “African Movement,” a 19-minute Fela Kuti derived groove that keeps you spellbound with its endless energy.
.” All the intensity of free-jazz is channeled into the percussion heavy groove of Philip Cohran & The African Heritage Ensemble’s “Unity,” a tribal-funk jam built around a hypnotically droning violin line and a wall of drums. ....From a droning, hypnotic violin line, Cohran builds a piece that would sound equally at home a million years in the past and a million years in the future
Henri Guedon’s “Volcano” is a highly danceable obscurity that skillfully combines jazzy flutes and horns with raw Afro-Latin percussion and pure funk bass. which marries Antillean drums to American brass
Argentine native Fernando Gelbard opens up 1974′s “Alevacolariea” with an African-inspired chant sung over a lone hand drum, before kicking into a Fender Rhodes led vamp that blends the best elements of early Fusion with the soul of ancient Africa.
Nigerian percussionist Ginger Johnson & His African Messengers deliver a truck-load of solid rhythmic uplift with “I Jool Omo,” a jazzy gem from their highly collectible 1967 lp, “African Party.”
New York City-based Antibalas unleash a brand new and heavy Afrobeat classic, “World War IV,” an unadulterated blast of prime African funk in the tradition of “Black President” Fela Kuti.
The album closes with Batsumi’s exotic slice of South African jazz-mysticism, “Lishonile,” a 9-minute track swirling with impassioned flute and sax solos.
Without a dull moment or weak track,
Ouelele is definitely worth owning. And, if you find yourself Jonesing for more rare and obscure Afro-rhythms, check out Comet Records’ earlier collection, Racubah!
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