Pierre Sandwidi - Troubadour de la Savane - LP

Pierre Sandwidi - Troubadour de la Savane - LPFor many decades until quite recently, little was known about music from Burkina Faso (which was formerly known as the Upper Volta). It is still one of the lesser known forms of popular music from West Africa. A few years before the country changed its name to Burkina Faso, thanks to Thomas Sankaras dream of a new society, Voltaic music emerged as some kind of true cultural revolution in the wake of the countrys independence in 1960. Remote, poor and

Released in 1983

only to return a few days later having miraculously tracked down every single name he’d been given

Unsterblichkeit" wenden

and the acid-drenched sound effects on Yesterday Where's My Mind were just a product of a contemporary studio band trying to create a fake folk funk red herring

Im Mittelpunkt des musikalischen Geschehens steht aber stets ihre charismatisch und eindringliche Stimme

The group’s stage appearance shocked as well

the band would relocate from their small mining town to the capital city

on ne va pas mourir dans une minute

the Croix-Rousse and Guillotière cafés have counted musicians from all over Maghreb

Then there's the issue of sonic quality

were received with enthusiasm

Angefangen im Jahr 1882