LE NIMBA DE N’ZEREKORE Gon Bia Syliphone Guinea Afro Jazz Highlife 1980 MINT

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LE NIMBA DE N’ZEREKORE: “Gon Bia Bia”

LABEL: EDITIONS SYLIPHONE CONAKRY

Label Number: SLP-71

Rare top copy – French 1st Original pressing from 1980.

GRADING:

LP Record: Excellent ~ Near Mint, top condition

Jacket: Excellent ~ Near Mint

Some words on this issue: LE NIMBA DE N’ZEREKORE: “Gon Bia Bia” (Editions Syliphone Conakry – SLP-71) “Ce disque est une page d'ethnologie," say the breathless sleevenotes. And this is how I like my ethnology kamikaze kit drumming, delirious wailing saxes and something called 'chant telephone' - a growling singing used to embody the spirits of the initiation forest. In post-independence Guinea, regional orchestras were set up to sing the praises of the ruling party while providing culturally 'authentic' dance music - one of the pleasanter side effects of Sekou Toure's thoroughly nasty dictatorship. While the dominant strain was Mande music (well known from Salif Keita, Bembeya Jazz and the like), Le Nimba from N'Zerekore, a rusting market town in Guinea's forested south east highlands, mixed Mande and Cuban sounds with the songs and rhythms of the Kpelle, Kono and Toma peoples. Supposedly retracing the stages of male initiation, this could be seen as an African concept album. But what gets you going is the wild rhythms booting along spiky guitar melodies, call and response vocals and some blasting saxes. A truly mad record.” (the Wire - 100 Records That Set The World On Fire [When No One Was Listening]. Spot on and brilliant.

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Our grading scale: Mint/ Near Mint/ Excellent/ VG++/. We don’t sell anything below VG++. VG++ grade is basically that the record has some scuffs and has wear. Excellent: record has hardly no visible defects and is preserved with care and attention, the condition most collectors take pride in to file away. Near Mint: a dash below mint, just perfect. Mint: like new.

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