Hotly recommended, utterly ravishing Cubanismo by the great Amara Toure from Guinée Conakry. All ten releases, 1973 and 1980, starting with three sublime 7” singles recorded in Cameroon with the Black & White group, and ending with the LP recorded in Gabon, when AT was with the Orchestre Massako.
‘Latin music, is it really foreign to us Africans? I don’t think so. Listen to the drums, to the rhythm. It all seems very close to us - it feels like it’s our own culture.’