hey all.
so, my laptop is sort of back. I lost my hard drive (with all the music on it) but fortunately, I had backups of everything. Things should be back to normal in about 3 weeks or so but I will keep trying to post in the meantime.
Here are a ton of very nice tracks sent in by Josephine and Esororo.
Joe Farley and many others also sent me some tracks and I will be posting them shortly in no particular order. I really should organize then in some way but if I tried to do that, I would hold onto them for a while longer instead of getting them out to you.
So, here you go.
We start with (some more!) Sammy Kasule!
This track has been removed at the request of the request of the copyright owner, Sammy Kasule and his representative, KenTunes LLC.
This track has been removed at the request of the request of the copyright owner, Sammy Kasule and his representative, KenTunes LLC.
Then various Orchestras
That is it for today folks.
Kiswahili love songs by Sammy Kasule are the greatest in East Africa.
Thanks once more for all, for Mangwanas Maria tembo.
if you have Bana ba cameroun, post it please.
Mr Samuel, Bana Ba Cameroun is at:
http://www.putfile.com/esororo
Thanks Steve. You are doing some very good work.
The viva makale youve posted is bibi mdogo and not akamba. Kindly post akamba.
Best regards
Steve,
Awesome stuff!
AS an aside, there is this software called SmartData Recovery. You may not need it now but I guess you can try it – is good for recovering data on most damaged/corrupt storage devices.
Regards and keep rocking us by african music!
Hi Steve,
Nice to see you’re up and running again. Thanks for Special Liwanza of which I have precious little in my collection. Any idea on the recording date?
Hearing the Orch. Jobiso song jogged my memory. I actually have that one in my collection. The actual title is: Natafuta Mwali and I think I’ll play it on my Monday night radio show.
Doug
Hi Steve,
Many thanks for “Mwana Mburu”. The power of that piece of music can’t be described in words. Orchestre Vévé at their best simply make me feel eternity!
Hi Steve,
Let me stop over to thank your regular reader, Esororo, for posting Tabu Ley’s “Ibrahim”. That really takes me back to a flat in Nairobi West where I used to listen to that piece on vinyl LP. Esororo seems to unearth some rather-difficult-to find pieces, so perhaps he can post Orchestre Makassy’s “Molema”. That would take me back to 1980, when Orchestre Makassy were ruling the air waves in East Africa. Nice photo on your homepage, Esororo. What place is that?
Hi Mutunga,
I am still new in the site. Where’s Tabu ley’s Ibrahim please?
Hi Samuel,
You’ll find Tabu Ley’s “Ibrahim” here:
http://www.putfile.com/esororo/media
It sounds more like a live performance than a track ripped from the original vinyl but at least it’s there, thanks to Esororo.
Thanks Mutunga
I have listened to it in the link, c’est serieux yo ibrahim, nabadi kulinga yo…
soki namoni yo nde motima…
I love it!!!.
Esoro
Thanks for Bana ba cameroon, Ibrahim, Pat Shange.
Can’t bilieve that I can once more listen to these hits of the 80s.
First time I hear Sam mangwana’s Ibrahim. For those who know little Lingala (I do) the lyrics are clearer than in Tabuely’s.
Ndeko Samuel,
Ngai mpe nasepeli mingi soki nayoki misiki wana. Ya solo soki moto ayebi mwa moke ndinga Lingala, misiki wana ezali sukali mingi. Mibu ntuku misato mileki ngai nazalaki elenge mobali na kelasi kuna Machakos School, ekolo Kenya. Biso nyoso tolingaka misiki ya Congo!
Free translation for the rest:
(Brother Samuel, I too am very happy to hear that music. It’s true that when one knows some Lingala, the music is sweeter still. Thirty years back, I was a young schoolboy at at Machakos School, Kenya. We all loved Congolese music)
Mutunga,
Ngai nakoki te koloba Lingala lokola yo. Nayoki yango moke. Assez pour comprendre quelque chose. J’adore Ibrahim.
I grew up in some savanas of Rift Valley and the only source of Music was the transistor radio, VOK, KBC. The hits that Steve is giving us here remind me of those days, taking care of goats when we were not in school.
Those savanas of my childhood are now wheat and maize farms. The only way to re-live them is by hearing the music in this page.
Steve, Samuel and Mutunga
Thank you guys.
Now Let some one find Ibrahim by Franco. Molema will be up soon.
Hi Esororo,
Many thanks for “Molema”. It doesn’t quite play out to the end but I’m sure if anyone can get the full record, that’s you.
Samuel,
Je ne connais pas très bien la région de «Rift Valley» mais j’ai eu la chance de travailler à la très belle ville de Nakuru. De 1990 à 1993 j’ai enseigné le français et l’allemand à “Greensteds School”. Là-bas, on utilisait mon nom ufficiel “Stephen Liti”. Mon expérience a été extraordinaire e je n’oublierai j’amais la beauté de cette ville et la gentillese de ces habitants. En ce moment, j’habite en Europe et l’Afrique me manque beaucoup. Apprendre une langue Africaine comme le Lingala m’aide a maintenir le contact spirituel avec notre beau continent, et la musique congolaise est un des meilleurs instruments pour transmettre notre culture.
Esororo
Big thanks brother! I can’t ask for more. This is what i had been asking for here for quite sometime “Ibrahim” by mangwana! Well is there a way i can rip this to my own cd? i have been listening several times but i cant help myself reminiscing on the old them days!. Let me know how i can get a soft copy of my own for this song!
Steve,
Thanks for providing the tunes iTunes could not. Keep it up jamba!
Find me “Aza” and “Alobe”(by record name or Alobele! Alobele! by Lyrics).
These were hits when I was an A-level student at Nabumali High School in Mbale, Uganda on or about 1971-72. These hits have stuck in my memory for ever since.
I now live in San Francisco, California. I have played “Mwana Mburu” on your website. Because my computer is powerful, it brought out that same sensation I got then. My white neigbors love it, and most of all, other people in the hood started playing it on their computers too!
It is a story I would love to see repeated with “Aza” and/or “Alobe”. What a service you are doing to African Diaspora!
Thank-you, my brother, for your invaluable service in Soukous music to the rest of African diaspora.
By the way I introduced Soukous to an African American by the the name of Big Willy, a former professional wresler. He loved it!
Patrick Elidu
(415) 552-6854
San Francisco, California
@ Patrick Elidu
Post your request on the current thread for a good response. Many may not find your request here. I’m sure someone can help you out!
@Patrick
Who is the Artiste? I have Azda by TPOK Jazz but no Aza.
Sorry Lydia,
I am sorry to let you know that I truly haven’t the faintest idea who the artististes for both “Aza” and /or “Alobe’ were. All along, I also believed that it was T.P. OK Jazz. May be it was , may be not. However, I know that Azda a’ient no Aza. I rememberr when Aza was released in or about 1972-74, and Azda came out several years earlier.
OK Patrick. If you go to ntwiga.net/blog and scroll down to the the latest posts (the first set of comments you come to) you will get to many more people. Thats where the current discussion, requests and posts are. Lots of tracks have turned up that no one could imagine anyone had. Hope you get what you’re looking for.
Mr. Elidu;
I have alot of information on the Lingala Music. Do you need it? Simon Engitu
Brother Simon Engitu, please let is loose to us, and please give us the first doses
@ Elidu, Engiti, Egoing
Guys for your comments to been seen on the current thread please go to
http://www.ntwiga.net/blog Most people will not read these older threads.
When you get to the site look at the latest threads at the top of the page and look for the one with the newest comments.
Hey Lydia ,Elidu. can you guys get me some of it coz am also a fun of dat