Various - Cameroon Garage Funk [VINYL]

Please Note Not All Our New Items Are Shrink Wrapped.All items shipped within 3 working days of payment.Yaoundxe9, in the 1970xb4s, was a buzzing place with every neighbourhood of Cameroonxb4s capital, no matter how dodgy, filled with music spots but surprisingly there were no infrastructure to immortalise those musical riches. rThe country suffered from a serious lack of proper recording facilities, and the process of committing your song rto tape could become a whole adventure unto itself. Of course, you could always book the national broadcasting rcompany together with a sound engineer, but this was hardly an option for underground artists with no cash. rBut luckily an alternative option emerged in form of an adventist church with some good recording equipment rand many of the artists on this compilation recorded their first few songs, secretly, in these premises thanks to rMonsieur Awono, the church engineer. He knew the schedule of the priests and, in exchange for some cash, he rwould arrange recording sessions. The artists still had to bring their own equipment, and since there was only rone microphone, the amps and instruments had to be positioned perfectly. It was a risky business for everyone rinvolved but since they knew they were making history, it was all worth it.

rAt the end of the recording, the master reel would be handed to whoever had paid for the session, usually the artist himself..and what happened next? With no distribution nor recording companies around this was a legitimate rquestion. More often then not it was the french label Sonafric that would offer their manufacturing and distribution structure and many Cameroonian artist used that platform to kickstart their career. What is particularly surprising in the case of Sonafric was their willingness to take chances and judge music solely on their merit rather rthan their commercial viability.

The sheer amount of seriously crazy music released also spoke volumes about the ropenness of the people behind the label.But who exactly are these artists that recorded one or two songs before disappearing, never to be heard from ragain? Some of the names were so obscure that even the most seasoned veterans of the Cameroonian music rscene had never heard of them. A few trips to the land of Makossa and many more hours of interviews were rnecessary to get enough insight to assemble the puzzle-pieces of Yaoundxe9's buzzing 1970s music scene. We rlearned that despite the myriad difficulties involved in the simple process of making and releasing a record, the rmusicians of Yaoundxe9's underground music scene left behind an extraordinary legacy of raw grooves and magnificent tunes. rThe songs may have been recorded in a church, with a single microphone in the span of only an hour or two, but rthe fact that we still pay attention to these great creations some 50 years later, only illustrates the timelessness rof their music

• Genre: Folk & Country
• Product Type: Vinyl
• Barcode: 4260126061446

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