#dibango

[alphynix]

In the late 18th century a strange fish fossil from the Monte Bolca deposits in northern Italy was described and named as Pegasus volans. This name had actually already been assigned to the living longtail seamoth (today known as Pegasus volitans), but despite this the fossil continued to be referred to as "Pegasus volans" for well over 200 years.

Now, finally, it's been redescribed and given a proper genus name of its own: Dibango volans.

Living during the early Eocene, around 50-48 million years ago, in what was then a warm shallow reef in the western Tethys Ocean, Dibango was probably around 7-10cm long (~3–4"). It had a long flag-like first ray of its dorsal fin, a very reduced and compact abdominal region, an extremely elongated pelvic bone that appears to have supported an exterilium (external gut), long pelvic fins, and a long slender tail.

This bizarre combination of features is often seen in fish larvae, but Dibango's level of skeletal development shows it was fully grown – suggesting it was actually an unusually neotenic fish, retaining its larval anatomy all the way into adulthood.

This also makes it very difficult to figure out what kind of fish it actually was, with the current best guess being "some sort of percomorph".

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References:

Davesne, Donald, and Giorgio Carnevale. "An enigmatic teleost fish from the Eocene of Bolca (Italy) with unusual larval‐like features." Papers in Palaeontology 11.3 (2025): e70017. https://doi.org/10.1002/spp2.70017

Volta, Giovanni Serafino, et al. "Ittiolitologia veronese del Museo Bozziano: ora annesso a quello del Conte Giovambattista Gazola e di altri gabinetti di fossili veronesi; con la versione latina." Verona, Italy: Dalla Stamperia Giuliari (1796). https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/bibliography/163554

Wikipedia contributors. “Dibango volans” Wikipedia, 20 May 2025, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dibango_volans

[ppaleoartistgallery]

#Paleostream 10/05/2025

here's today's #Paleostream flocking sketches!!! this was also my 100th flocking 🎊🥳🎊

today we sketched Attenborosaurus (happy birthday Sir. David Attenborough!!!), Dakosaurus, Etjosuchus, and Dibango volans

[veloci-raptor]

Flocking Together

Attenborosaurus/Dakosaurus

Etjosuchus/Dibango

[didierleclair]

MANU !

[omegaremix]

Omega Radio for May 14, 2025; #405.

Minority Band: “Journey To The Shore”

Bobby Hutcherson: “Nocturnal”

Camille Sauvage: “Declic”

Herb Ellis & Remo Palmer: “Wildflower”

Ian Carr’s Nucleus: “Capricorn”

Jim Lawless: “Lovely Ballade”

Ferrante & Teicher: “Lady Love”

Paz: “Time Stood Still”

Jasmine: “Being Together”

Jeannie Reynolds: “The Fruit Song”

Marcos Resende & Index: “Nergal”

Bud Shank w/ The Bob Alcivar Singers: “A Famous Myth”

Roly Kovak: “Bottle Ghost”

Vince Evans: “Speak Ghetto Speak”

Salt: “Hung Up”

Manu Dibango: “New Bell”

Tony Newman: “Soul Thing”

B.T. Express: “Once You Get It”

Joe Tex: “I Gotcha”

Lee Moses: “Got That Will”

Willie Bobo: “Dindi”

Windy City: “I Still Love You”

Houston Person: “Pretty Please”

Lesiman: “Padmina”

Song To The Source: “Did You Ever Fly”

Bonus crate-digging, vinyl treasures, and sampling (jazz, soul, R&B, fusion, and funk).

[phonographica]

Manu Dibango – Electric Africa (1985)

[omegaradiowusb]

MAY 14, 2025 (#405)

Minority Band: "Journey To The Shore" Bobby Hutcherson: "Nocturnal" Camille Sauvage: "Declic" Herb Ellis & Remo Palmer: "Wildflower" Ian Carr's Nucleus: "Capricorn" Jim Lawless: "Lovely Ballade" Ferrante & Teicher: "Lady Love" Paz: "Time Stood Still" Jasmine: "Being Together" Jeannie Reynolds: "The Fruit Song" Marcos Resende & Index: "Nergal" Bud Shank w/ The Bob Alcivar Singers: "A Famous Myth" Roly Kovak: "Bottle Ghost" Vince Evans: "Speak Ghetto Speak" Salt: "Hung Up" Manu Dibango: "New Bell" Tony Newman: "Soul Thing" B.T. Express: "Once You Get It" Joe Tex: "I Gotcha" Lee Moses: "Got That Will" Willie Bobo: "Dindi" Windy City: "I Still Love You" Houston Person: "Pretty Please" Lesiman: "Padmina" Song To The Source: "Did You Ever Fly"

Hello to all of our followers, listeners, and supporters of Omega and WUSB. For the second time this season, we play vinyl treasures, record digs, and sampling sounds for our bonus broadcast as we fill-in for Movie News And Music. Two hours of classic jazz, soul, R&B, funk, and fusion from 8AM-10AM for all discriminating producers and collectors of wax.

One more broadcast to go before we close out Springtime and enter our Summer broadcast season. We've been saving and stockpiling music finds from all over to keep Omega running, so expect some great things from us as always. See you in two weeks.

May 26, 2025 (3AM EST): final Spring '25 Omega.

[musickickztoo]

Manu Dibango

December 12, 1933 – March 24, 2020

[michelleumunna]

Manu Dibango, African Voodoo (1972)

[kdo-three]

Manu Dibango - Soul Makossa (1972) Manu Dibango from: "Hymne de la 8e Coupe d'Afrique des Nations" / "Soul Makossa" (Single) "Soul Makossa" (LP)

African | World Music | Makossa | Jazz Funk

JukeHostUK (left click = play) (320kbps)

Personnel: Manu Dibango: Vocals / Saxophone Manu Rodanet: Electric Guitar Pierre Zogo: Acoustic Guitar Georges Arvanitas: Piano Patrice Galas: Piano Freddy Mars: Percussion Manfred Long: Bass Guitar Joby Jobs: Drums

Arranged by Manu Dibango

"Soul Makossa", the most sampled African track of all time.

Recorded: @ The Decca Studios (AKA Studio Sofrason) in Paris, France 1971

Released: 1972 African Records (France) Fiesta Records (France) Atlantic Records (US) London Records (UK/Canada)

[kvltklvb]

manu dibango rtsi live ‘83

[nonesuchrecords]

Vagabon stopped by Amoeba Music in San Francisco for a shopping trip and a chat for Amoeba’s What’s in My Bag? series, in which she picks up music by Manu Dibango, Earl Sweatshirt, Janet Jackson, Nakibembe Embaire Group, The Friends of Distinction, Stevie Wonder, Lauryn Hill, Solange, Ali Farka Touré, and Aphex Twin.

[mywifeleftme]

314: Manu Dibango // O Boso

O Boso Manu Dibango 1972, London Records

In 2014, a Discogs user who goes by the handle nyuorican wrote on the page for Manu Dibango's O Boso/Soul Makossa, “Such an amazing album, musically it deserves to be like a $500 album easily, we're so lucky a lot were pressed up and kept circulating.” As criticism it’s not making Craig Jenkins sweat or anything, but it’ll probably be a more decisive assessment for anyone curious about Afro-jazz/funk of whether to listen than any of my blather. Original copies of stuff this good in this genre from this region almost invariably costs the same as a dog bred like a Spanish Habsburg, but thanks to the worldwide success of its pioneering single “Soul Makossa” this shouldn’t run you much more than $20. That’s a steal for music that grooves like this does.

Dibango wrote and arranged everything here and, as his note on the back cover makes explicit, his goal is to pay tribute to the common African roots of contemporary global Black music (jazz, soul, calypso, samba, etc.) via fusion. The Cameroonian sax giant surrounds himself with a crack band of African, Caribbean, and French jazz players, and the sheer variety of skills they bring to the table gives him great latitude to explore. The chords of “Dangwa” have the joyous lilt of African dance music but the bassline could be an R&B banger, while Dibango’s freaky sax runs are straight modal jazz. “Hibiscus” is soul jazz that would make Roy Ayers proud, Dibango’s horn blowing a lonely mating call while the casually funky electric piano, congos, and wacka-wacka guitar sketch an image of a hot city night after the clubs let out.

Of course, it’s “Soul Makossa,” an emissary of the makossa sound of Cameroon that predicts the disco wave, that towers over the rest in terms of influence, and it’s difficult to imagine how novel its minimalist percussive strut, echoing Duala-language ad libs, and deluxe horn hits must’ve sounded in the era. It’s one of those records where you can hear a bit of everything that was to come in Black music, from Chic to Kurtis Blow to Prince—partially because it’s been so frequently sampled that it literally is a bit of everything that was to come in Black music. But don’t sleep on opener “New Bell” either, a less hooky track in the same general mold, but one that rolls extremely deep.

314/365

[didierleclair]

Manu!

[soulmusicsongs]

Bien Boire Se Dit "33" - Manu Dibango (Bien Boire Se Dit "33" / Bien Boire Se Dit "33" (Instrmental) Alcohol, 1972)

[tratadista]

Manu Dibango - Happy Feeling