‘High energy beats from the kings of Bamako’s sound-system street-party scene, as featured on the Balani Show compilation. Cut-up samples of baliphones, djembes and talking drums, spliced together into heavy studio tracks. Future bass sounds — a Malian mix of kuduro, decale, dancehall, and trap.’
Scarce.

Previously unreleased recordings made in the Chelsea Hotel in 1960 on 1/4” tape, transferred here for the first time; the basis of Confessions Of An Irish Rebel, published posthumously five years later.