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P R E S E N T S .···. ▓ │▀▀▀█▓▄▄ █████ ██████▓▀ ▀ ▀ ▀▓██████ █████▀ VA - Reggae Africa (Roots & Culture 1972-1988) ▀█████ ████▀ ▀████ ███▀ ▀███ █▓▓▓▓ ARTiST..[ Various Artists ▓▓▓▓█ █▓▓▓▓ TiTLE...[ Reggae Africa (Roots & Culture 1972-1988) ▓▓▓▓█ ████ GENRE...[ Reggae CAT#....[ ASVN067 ████ ████ LABEL...[ Africa Seven ENCODER.[ Lame 3.100 ████ ████ YEAR....[ 2021 QUALiTY.[ 320kbps ████ ████ SOURCE..[ WEB (FLAC) MODE....[ Joint Stereo ████ ████ PLAYTIME[ 50:47 REL.DATE[ 11.07.2021 ████ ████ TRACKS..[ 10 RiPPER..[ TEAM OMA ████ ████ SiZE....[ 116,39 MB SUPPLiER[ TEAM OMA ████ ████ ████ ████ ████ ████ ▄▀▀███▓▄ ▄▓███▀▀▄ ████ ████ ■ ███▓█ .···. T R A C K L i S T .···. █▓███ ■ ████ ████ · ▄▓███▓ ▓███▓▄ · ████ █████ ▄▄▓█▀▀▀│ ▓ ▓ │▀▀▀█▓▄▄ █████ ██████▓▀ ▀ ▀ ▀▓██████ █████▀ ▀█████ ████▀ ▀████ ███▀ NR. TRACK. TiME. ▀███ █▓▓▓▓ ∙∙∙∙∙∙∙∙∙∙∙∙∙∙∙∙∙∙∙∙∙∙∙∙∙∙∙∙∙∙∙∙∙∙∙∙∙∙∙∙∙∙∙∙∙∙∙∙∙∙∙∙∙∙∙∙∙∙∙∙ ▓▓▓▓█ █▓▓▓▓ ▓▓▓▓█ ████ 01 The Mebusas - Good Bye Friends 03:36 ████ ████ 02 Georges Happi - Hello Friends 07:53 ████ ████ 03 Black Reggae - Darling I'm So Proud Of You 03:32 ████ ████ 04 Christy Essien - I'll Be Your Man 04:16 ████ ████ 05 The Lijadu Sisters - Bobby 04:36 ████ ████ 06 Tala Andre Marie - Hop Sy Trong 05:42 ████ ████ 07 Essama Bikoula - I'll Cry 04:39 ████ ████ 08 Carlos & Miki - All This Nonsense 05:45 ████ ████ 09 Pasteur Lappe - Babette D'O. (Rastawoman) 06:00 ████ ████ 10 B.G. & Fibre - Drunken Driver 04:48 ████ ████ ∙∙∙∙∙∙∙∙∙∙∙∙ ████ ████ TOTAL: 50:47 ████ ████ ████ ████ ████ ████ ▄▀▀███▓▄ ▄▓███▀▀▄ ████ ████ ■ ███▓█ .···. R E L E A S E N O T E S .···. █▓███ ■ ████ ████ · ▄▓███▓ ▓███▓▄ · ████ █████ ▄▄▓█▀▀▀│ ▓ ▓ │▀▀▀█▓▄▄ █████ ██████▓▀ ▀ ▀ ▀▓██████ █████▀ ▀█████ ████▀ ▀████ ███▀ ▀███ █▓▓▓▓ ▓▓▓▓█ █▓▓▓▓ ▓▓▓▓█ ████ https://africaseven.bandcamp.com/album/reggae- ████ ████ africa-roots-culture-1972-1988 ████ ████ ████ ████ On 18th April, 1980, after decades of anti ████ ████ colonial struggle, the Zimbabweian flag was ████ ████ finally raised at midnight at the Rufaro ████ ████ Stadium in Harare. Not long after, the words ████ ████ "Ladies and Gentlemen, Bob Marley and The ████ ████ Wailers!" rang out, and Zimbabwe's independent ████ ████ future began. ████ ████ ████ ████ In the years that followed, Africa was to ████ ████ produce it's own reggae superstars, as the ████ ████ likes of Alpha Blondy, Majek Fashek and Lucky ████ ████ Dube swept across the continent and beyond, and ████ ████ there's no doubting Bob Marley's explosive ████ ████ impact on this particular narrative. ████ ████ ████ ████ Marley's unswerving commitment to liberation ████ ████ and unity ranged from the sweeping spiritual ████ ████ sentiments of iconic hits such One Love and ████ ████ Redemption Song to the galvanising, focused ████ ████ tone of 1979's 'Zimbabwe', and his status as ████ ████ global superstar ensured that his (self funded) ████ ████ part in the countries' epochal celebrations ████ ████ meant that the history of reggae in Africa ████ ████ would always be viewed through the prism of his ████ ████ influence ( Wiki/African Reggae : "In 1980, ████ ████ world-famous Jamaican reggae musician Bob ████ ████ Marley performed in Harare, Zimbabwe, and that ████ ████ concert is often credited as marking the ████ ████ beginning of reggae in Africa") ████ ████ ████ ████ But in fact, the recorded history of reggae ████ ████ produced in Africa stretches back over a decade ████ ████ before Marley's arrival on the continent, and ████ ████ showcases broad pan - diasporic interflows ████ ████ between the Carribean and Africa, with the UK ████ ████ and the US communities playing influential ████ ████ supporting roles, all helping shape the ████ ████ evolution and development of the genre in ████ ████ Africa from late 60's inception to Marley's ████ ████ arrival in 1980, and then well beyond. ████ ████ ████ ████ Reggae Africa : Roots and Culture, 1972 - 1981 ████ ████ tries to capture a sense of that evolution, ████ ████ starting in 1972 as Mebussa's ultra rare 'Good ████ ████ Bye Friends' effortlessly captures triangular, ████ ████ transatlantic cultural interflows, with the ████ ████ short lived Nigerian group's bitter sweet ████ ████ chords echoing classic US soul, but laid over a ████ ████ gritty, skanking Jimmy Cliff - esque proto ████ ████ reggae rhythm. ████ ████ ████ ████ Trying to work out the precise provenance of ████ ████ Black Reggae's 'Darling I'm So Proud of You' ████ ████ (1975) isn't easy, but involves Paris based / ████ ████ African focused label Fiesta, some proper OG ████ ████ co-branding exercise with Bols Brandy ( "Bols ████ ████ Brandy presents Black Reggae") - and deeply ████ ████ infectious, lilting Rocksteady. ████ ████ ████ ████ By 1976, glorious Nigerian sister duo Lijadu ████ ████ Sisters are echoing the chunky roots of a ████ ████ Dennis Brown or U Roy on 'Bobby', and in 1977, ████ ████ bespoke Nigerian drummer Georges Happi is ████ ████ introing 'Hello Friends' with the soon to be ████ ████ universal signature reggae tom roll intro, ████ ████ before veering leftfield with snatches of ████ ████ spoken Afro - English vocal in between the ████ ████ hooky choruses. ████ ████ ████ ████ Nigerian giant Chrissy Essien's 'I'll Be You ████ ████ Man' (1979) combines floaty Lovers vibes with ████ ████ catchy ska shuffle, and in the same year, ████ ████ Cameroonian afro-funk/disco heavyweight Pasteur ████ ████ Lappe' drifts seamlessly into skanking, Lovers ████ ████ infected reggae on 'Babbette D.O. ( Rastawoman ████ ████ )' (before a sprawling electric guitar solo ████ ████ reminds us how unselfconsiously eclectic so ████ ████ much African music of the era was.) ████ ████ ████ ████ And finally bookending the compilation, in ████ ████ chronological terms, fellow Cameroonian Tala AM ████ ████ also swaps his funk and soul for the rootsy and ████ ████ infectious 'Hop Sy Trong' (1981), again ████ ████ highlighting the diverse and eclectic approach ████ ████ to this timeless Carribean musical genre taken ████ ████ by African musicians in the years before that ████ ████ Bob Marley year zero event in Zimbabwe. ████ ████ ████ ████ ████ ████ ████ ████ ████ ████ ████ ████ ▄▀▀███▓▄ ▄▓███▀▀▄ ████ ████ ■ ███▓█ .···. G R O U P .···. █▓███ ■ ████ ████ · ▄▓███▓ ▓███▓▄ · ████ █████ ▄▄▓█▀▀▀│ ▓ MAiL: [email protected] ▓ │▀▀▀█▓▄▄ █████ █▀ ▀██▓▀ ▀ ▀ ▀▓██▀ ▀█ ██▄██▀ ▀██▄██ ████▀ The only thing that really matters is music!!! ▀████ ▀██▓ ▓██▀ ▀██▓▄ ▄▓██▀ .▀ │ ▀▀██▄▓▄ .···. G R E E T S .···. ▄▓▄██▀▀ │ ▀ . ▄▓▓▄ │ ▀▀▀█▄▄ ▄▄█▀▀▀ │ ▄▓▓▄ . ▀▀ ▀▀▄ FRiENDS / SiTEOPS / NUKENET ▄▀▀ ▀▀ ▀ . ▄ ▄▓▓▄ ▀▄ RIP kHz ▄▀ ▄▓▓▄ ▄ . ▀ ▀ ▀▓▀ ▀▀ ▀ . ▄.···. !kb^faa 08.MARCH 2009 .···.▄ . ▀ ▀▀ ▀▓▀ ▀ .