« Cameroon Garage Funk », voyage au cœur de la scène musicale de Yaoundé des 70s
▻https://www.fip.fr/musiques-du-monde/cameroon-garage-funk-voyage-au-coeur-de-la-scene-musicale-de-yaounde-des-70s-192
▻https://analogafrica.bandcamp.com/track/les-souffrances
But who exactly are these artists that recorded one or two songs before disappearing, never to be heard from again? Some of the names were so obscure that even the most seasoned veterans of the Cameroonian music scene had never heard of them. A few trips to the land of #Makossa and many more hours of interviews were necessary to get enough insight to assemble the puzzle-pieces of Yaoundé’s buzzing 1970s music scene. We learned that despite the myriad difficulties involved in the simple process of making and releasing a record, the musicians of Yaoundé’s underground music scene left behind an extraordinary legacy of raw grooves and magnificent tunes.
The songs may have been recorded in a church, with a single microphone in the span of only an hour or two, but the fact that we still pay attention to these great creations some 50 years later, only illustrates the timelessness of their music.
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