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Mark Ernestus Presents Jeri-Jeri
Mbueguel Dafa Nekh

NDAGGA

A stunning new production by the Rhythm & Sound ace, drawn from his recording sessions with some of Senegal's greatest musicians — a griot clan of Sabar drummers from Kaolack in Senegal, led by Bakane Seck, with guest players and vocalists, including many mainstays of the bands of Baaba Maal, Youssou N'Dour and company.
Jeri-Jeri's style of Mbalax is swingeingly masterful — heady and hard-grooving, with highly complex, fiercely succinct poly-rhythms — an ancient-futuristic music, mesmeric but sharp as nails, super-charged with drama. Featuring the lovelorn vocals of guest Mbene Diatta Seck, Sabar traditions are fused with furious Afro-Cubanismo, hard funk-rock, and shards of high-life.
Ernestus' nasty, hypnotic, stripped dub — an Mbalax first — edges in the bass, profiles the talmbat and tungun drums, and scoops the semantics out of the singing.



Madteo Bugler Gold Pt. 1
The opening salvo from Will Bankhead and Joy Orbison's new label, this EP is a cracker: a rainswept blend of hip-hop, house and techno, with muffled, deep, body-rocking bass and layered, worked drama.





Bjorn Torske Hard Trafikk
A Sex Tags tip-off. A lardy-arsed disco monster from Norway, with the legendary Opel Bastards lying in wait on the flip.








Jimmy And The Inspirations Ain't No Love
From the upcoming early-Upsetters compilation — Jimmy London doing over Eddie Floyd's rhythm and blues hit with The Falcons. I Found A Love, though... that's the killer Falcons.



Count Sticky, Val Bennett Rockfort Psychedelion
Old-school deejay scatting over Memphis-stewed funk. Rockfort is no place to be off your face, mind. With a Val Bennett excursion on Django Shoots First.



The Upsetters High Plains Drifter
Classic, trumpet-led, early-seventies Upsetters instrumental. Like The Ethiopians and the Jimmy London, with an exclusive version, not included on the forthcoming album. Criss labels.



George Faith Guideline
Reissuing the two 1978 Black Art sides, more rootical than the To Be A Lover material. Intended to be the title-track of his second album, before it went down with the Black Ark.



Paul Ngozi The Ghetto
Another installment of classic Zamrock, to stick between The Witch and Amanaz.



Le Mystere-Jazz De Tombouctou
Breathtaking, guitar-led Malian roots, from the same government-funded series of releases as L'Orchestre Kanaga De Mopti, also recently reissued.



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