Jingle On My Upload Was Made To Protect From Illegal Downloads VA - IVORY COAST SOUL - Afrofunk In Abidjan From 1972 To 1982 - 2010 Hot Casa This compilation is the result of nearly 3 years work of Djamel Hammadi aka "Afrobrazilero", an extraordinaire collector and vinyl digger travelling all over the continent from Ghana, Benin, Togo, Mali to Senegal. After 12 beautiful but dangerous trips throughout Cote D'Ivoire with fake policemen control road borders, political instabilities, deep economical crisis, one bigmalaria, one black scorpio fear when he openend a vinyl box in small abandoned car station, he selected 13 rare or unreleased tracks with help of Dj Julien Lebrun, all these tracks are fully and hardly licensed, we really want to thank Axel in Abidjan who helped us to go to plateau, Treichville, Yamoussoukro to materialize all the licenses spoke "nouchi" and make the bank transfer.. It was almost impossible to find the real master songs, most of the producers we met didn't have it anymore, as you know, tropical climate and humidity are not friends with vinyl preservation, we tried our best to clean and use different copies of each of these songs to have the cleanest sound possible. Côte D'Ivoire gained his independence from France on August 7th, 1960 and became a republic with a strong executive power personified by the son of a baoule chief, Felix Houphouet-Boigny. The official language is french, the country is divided into 19 regions and 58 departments, Cote D'Ivoire has also the most populated cities in french-speaking westernAfrica, the country's population, wich was around 10 millions in 1978, 15 366 672 in 1998, is estimated to be 18 373 060 in 2008, the borders with Liberia, Guinea, Mali, Burkina Faso and Ghana made this country the crossroads of millions of cultures and diasporas. The ooficial capital is Yamoussoukro despite the fact that it is the fourth most populated city, Abidjan is de facto the capital, with a population of officially 3 310 500 and around 7 millions including the suburbs, the largest city and serves as the commercial and banking center of Cote D'Ivoire. In the mid 70s the recording industry in Ivory Coast was set to dominate the entire region of west Africa, led by labels such as sid, safie deen, Disques Sacodis, JBZ, Djima, Badmos, Maikano, Siis, And Music & Hall, Edition Mycke's. The print runs were small, yet the music would have a deep impact, most of the records were pressed in Abidjan, Koumassi by Madam Oro, but also in France and Nigeria. The purpose of this compilation is to focus on a few of many examples of many incredible musci recorded in Abidjan throughout the 70s, that have been forgotten due to their rarity. Non of majors invested in there like, DECCA or EMI did in Nigeria, the producer Badmos said it was sold in small record shops, on the markets, even in hotels like "Hotel Ivoire"or in "Bouake Hotel". The famous "La Boite A Musique" 21 rue 16 barrée in Treichville, Albarika Store..Many of the sessions were recorded in mono or directly at the radio station. In 1975, JBZ opened the first official studio with an 8 tracks and the daily price was over 80000 to 120000 F CFA (120 Euro to 180 Euro). Most of the production was sold locally but, at the end of the decade, Ivory Coast became the first record exporter of the continent. A NEW IVORIAN TRADITION In the sixties, in Ivory Coast, some bands began to imitate western band, especially french pop classic, funk, soul records and tapes music were shipped over in huge quantities, but at the beginning of the 70s, during the post colonial period with the emergence of panafricanism ideal..With strong and charismatic leader, lots of musicians wants to promote their own traditional popular heritage, one of the defining traits of Ivoirian popular music is the use of folk rhythms of the bété people which whas been prevalent since Cote D'Ivoire's independence. Amedee Pierre "The Voice Of Dope" (Nightingale) became an example figure of the "New" Ivorian popular music "Renaissance". He invented a revolutionary kind of music called "Ziglibity", a fusion between "Bété" traditional rhythm and funk soul arrangements which is still popular in Abidjan's street in 2010 !

• published: 01 Feb 2015
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