#dibango

[didierleclair]

Manu Dibango, soul makossa.

[phonographica]

Manu Dibango – Electric Africa (1985)

[serpentinesheldonserpentine]

Five for Friday

I love playing requests! For my mutual, @thaliawashere ,these five songs have been in heavy rotation at my home this week.

[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

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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)

[bluehome91]

#Repost @juan_vignon

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Mama ko mama sa maka makossa ☀️

Manu Dibango performing his famous hit “Soul Makossa” in 1972.

[mixamorphosis]

Blog post and linked up tracklist [HERE]

Tracklist

01. Fela Ransome Kuti & The Africa 70 - Let's Start (Knitting Factory) 02. The Rwenzori's - Handsome Boy (E Wara) (Harmless) 03. Ekambi Brillant - Nyambe (Africa Seven) 04. Matata - Wanna Do My Thing (Explosive Entertainment) 05. Los Issifu & His Moslems - Kana Soro (Analog Africa) 06. Black Truth Rhythm Band - Ifetayo (Explosive Entertainment) 07. Tee Mac - Nam Myoho Renge Kyo (Hot Casa) 08. Sookie with Jeannie Otis - Rhythm On Rhythm (African Road Trip) 09. Tala A.M. - Black Gold (Africa Seven) 10. Osibisa - Sunshine Day (Gemini) 11. Manu Dibango - Soul Makossa (London Records) 12. Buari - Karam Bani (RCA) 13. Nana Love - Talking About Music (BBE) 14. Pat Thomas & Marijata - I Need More (Strut) 15. Fela Anikulapo Kuti & Roy Ayers - 2000 Blacks Got To Be Free (Eurobond Records)

Download available via [Hearthis]

[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

[soulmusicsongs]

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

[nonenglishsongs]

Manu Dibango - Soul Makossa (Douala)

Learn about the origin of "mama say mama sa mama coosa" / "mamase mamasa mamakusa"!

[didierleclair]

MANU DIBANGO, SOUL MAKOSSA!

[ponderingrandomthings]

Trivia: This is where Michael Jackson got his 'mama se mama sa ma wa musa' in Wanna Be Startin' Somethin'.

If I remember right, Manu Dibango took him to court and it was settled out of court.

[maquina-semiotica]

“ Coconut”, Manu Dibango

[kvltklvb]

manu dibango rtsi live ‘83