I have had a couple of requests for something aside from rumba – a change of style if you will. So, tonight’s track is a favorite of many and has been re-released on a regular basis every five years or so since it was originally performed more than 25 years ago.
Yep, it is none other than Gabby Omollo & Omondi Jassor’s Lunch Time. I could be wrong but I think that the late Poxy Pressure did a take on this some time in the late 90′s that was very true to the original.
Gabby Omollo & Omondi Jassor – Lunch Time
As always, a bonus ; this is Onyesha Mapenzi (Show your love).
Can anyone help me out and tell me who this is? I almost certain that this track is by the Maroon Commandos. It sounds like them, the style is them and the voice sounds just like Kifoto. Someone tell me that I am wrong.
Click here for all the other pre-1990 East African music I have posted in the past.
Enjoy.
[begin rant]
+ The Nation’s stupid and misguided idea (yes, I DID write “stupid and misguided”) that I would pay even $10/month to read their rag for what they call “Premium Content” means that I have now switched to the East African Standard.
Sayonara people. Godspeed and good luck with this idea.
Why in the world would I pay you even a ndururu (Kenyan 5 cent piece) when I can get your content (AND the content of almost any other African paper) from an great aggregator like All Africa for pretty much the same amount.
[end rant]
+ In an attempt to catch up with the real world, I was reading the December 19th 2005 edition of BusinessWeek which had the mandatory end of year “Best of . . . ” articles and I came across a Maria Bartilomo interview of Bob Rubin who is now a thinker at CitiGroup.
She asks some very interesting questions on the world economy and the US deficit.I came away from this piece with the disconcerting feeling that no-one seems to realize that the huge engineering and scientific capacity that China and India are building will have a profound impact not just in the US but also in the rest of the world. We already out-source all our engineering to the US and Europe and manufacturing to China. When they take over engineering, it will be “Colonialism 2.0″.
+ In other news, an International Herald Tribune article documents an attempt by Paul Wolfowitz to link World Bank aid to press freedom and cites Kenya as an example.
Strictly for fun:
+ In a story that makes me think of Prof. Naaman of the Nine Stars Orchestra, India’s monster eater has retired bringing peace to the hearts of many Indian restaurateurs.
+ After losing the Death Star to rebels, Vader ended up working the day shift at the local supermarket – after he took some time off to write his memoirs.
But seriously, I hate seeing Vader mocked.
Steve,
One great music of alltime.You made me remember those lunch times when I worked in NBO some years ago.I used to go visit my shoe shiner across New Stanley Hotel as well as piga story with the daily papers vendors and sometimes my chokoraa friends who were always the best teachers for the city life I have ever had.Man,that music was,is and will always be a bomb.Thanks
[...] OK, I know that I threatened never to post music again but that was all talk. I got 4 comments so you get an extra track today: I am not sure who did this but I think that it may very be the same group that performed “Onyesha Mapenzi” that I posted way back then [...]