Thursday, 26 December 2024

Africa/World Roots on Milky Way K7s


Searching for more info about the previous post, I hit upon a very manguetic series of K7s: Milky Way cassettes [15 in total]. All uploaded by Melkweg at their own soundcloud account, and containing live recordings from concerts in the Melkweg [=Milky Way], Amsterdam between 1982 and 1991, mostly from Africa/World Roots Festivals.

No recordings from Franco here, but many, many others from all over our globe, like:


Africa Roots vol.2 [1984]: Ifang Bondi (Senegambia), M'Bamina (Congo), Fesobi Olawaiye (Nigeria), George Darko & Bus Stop (Ghana), The Sunsum Band (Ghana), Oema Prisiri (Surinam), Trafassi (Surinam) and Fatala (Guinee)
All recorded 1984.Aug.29-Sep.02 live at the Melkweg during the Africa Roots Festival.


You can all check them out at
soundcloud.com/melkwegamsterdam/sets/milky-way-casettes


PS: in the early/mid 1980s some of these recordings were also issued on LPs...

5 comments:

  1. Thank you very much, those are some amazing recordings!

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  2. Thank You! I'm enjoying the "nuit arabe" of rai music!

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  3. very interesting set of "cassettes" here thanks for the link, I've listened to a couple already. Now one naturally wonders... where are the other volumes of Africa Roots? There must be a volume one and a volume three at least... :))

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  4. Vol.1 [1983] and Vol.3 [1985] seem to have released on vinyl only, see at discogs.com/label/126440-Milkyway-Records

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