Various – Pop Makossa - The Invasive Dance Beat Of Cameroon 1976-1984
Label: Analog Africa – AALP 083
Series: Analog Africa (2) – No. 23
Format: 2 x Vinyl, LP, Compilation
Country: Germany, Austria, & Switzerland
Released: 2017
Genre: Funk / Soul, Folk, World, & Country
Style: African, Funk
TRACKS:
A1 Dream Stars– Pop Makossa Invasion
A2 Mystic Djim & The Spirits– Yaoundé Girls
A3 Bill Loko– Nen Lambo
B1 Bernard Ntone– Mussoliki
B2 Pasteur Lappé– Sanaga Calypso
B3 Eko Roosevelt Louis– M'ongele M'am
B4 Olinga Gaston– Ngon Engap
C1 Emmanuel Kahe Et Jeanette Kemogne– Ye Medjuie
C2 Nkodo Sitony– Mininga Meyong Mese
C3 Pasteur Lappé– The Sekele Movement
D1 Pat' Ndoye– More Love
D2 Clément Djimogne– Africa
DESCRIPTION
The Pop Makossa adventure started in 2009, when Analog Africa founder Samy Ben Redjeb first travelled to Cameroon to make an initial assessment of the country’s musical situation. He returned with enough tracks for an explosive compilation highlighting the period when funk and disco sounds began to infiltrate the Makossa style popular throughout Cameroon. Vinyl includes a 20-pages booklet. TIP!
So why has it taken almost eight years from that first visit to the final compilation? From the very beginning, there were several mysteries hanging over Pop Makossa.