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Of the many bands formed under Guinea President Sékou Touré’s Authenticité initiative, Balla and the Balladins are among the tightest and most creative.

A new double CD, Balla et ses Balladins, The Syliphone Years, a reissue produced by Australian Graeme Counsel, picks choice cuts from the band’s glory days. Today we feature CD 2, 1972-1980. Next week we’ll make CD 1, 1968-1972, our feature CD of the week.

Playlist

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Innuendo Out The Other
Philip DeGruy
Degruy-Gruy Music
NYC 6013 2 (US Import)
Philip DeGruy, Innuendo Out The Other
15 seconds (excerpt)
(solo 17-string elec guitar, fingerstyle; v quirky, virtuosic & humorous, more or less a bent-boogie)

1423
CD 2, Cut 6 - 'Ka Noutea' (Loved One)
Writer not Spec
Editions Syliphone Conakry BGDA
Sterns Music STCD 3035/3036 ( in Australia through Fuse Music Group: www.fusemusic.com.au
worldwide: www.sternsmusic.com )
Balla et ses Balladins - 'The Syliphone Years'
5:07
(Lively, Africanised song with riffing horns and interlocking electric guitars in the yankadi dance rhythm, with lyrics that say, 'If you seriously love your sweetheart, do not listen to gossip.')

Segue

1428
CD Cut 6 - 'Nyiming Lufta'
Trad West African, interpreted and arranged by King Marong and Afro Mandinko, additional arrangements by Paul Holleman.
Pub Not Spec
CD 1 (soon available online at http://www.indie-cds.com/ , available now at Blue Moon Records in Johnson St, Fitzroy, Melbourne www.myspace.com/afromandinko www.mdiart.com www.kingmarong.com
King Marong & Afro Mandinko - (Self-Titled)
5:30
(Austral comp and perf: Michael Havir's funky electric clavinet, Richmond Brain's slide guitar, horns and percussion, in song urging the youth of Gambia to go out and work hard to support their parents. Solos on organ, slinky guitar)

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CD 2, Cut 7 - 'Ancien Combat'
Writer not Spec
Editions Syliphone Conakry BGDA
Sterns Music STCD 3035/3036 ( in Australia through Fuse Music Group: www.fusemusic.com.au
worldwide: www.sternsmusic.com )
Balla et ses Balladins - 'The Syliphone Years'
6:45
(Mariachi-like fanfare then song that Idrissa Soumaoro wrote after hearing an angry exchange between a father and a daughter in which the father, a retired soldier, warns the girl that he was a rifleman who fought in WWII and killed imperialists and that she'd better beware of his temper.)

Segue

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CD Cut 11 - 'Demembalou'
Aminata Kamissoko, arr Maitre Mamadou Aliou Barry
Pub Not Spec
Sterns Music STCD LC 15328 ( in Australia through Fuse Music Group: www.fusemusic.com.au
worldwide: www.sternsmusic.com ) (this release not currently distributed in Australia)
Les Amazones de Guinée - 'Wamato'
4:37
(Prominent electric guitar, brass and percussion and Aminata Kamissoko's powerful voice in song that is a plea to music lovers the world over to help women find the road to freedom and responsible emancipation with dignity. It evokes African leaders including Hadja Mariama Diabaté, the 'Mother of Guinea's War Orphans, Nobel Peace prize Winner, Kenyan Wanghari Mathai and Les Amazones themselves, committed to the women's efforts to bring about a more humane world)

1448
CD Cut 1 - 'Follow the Dollar'
Eliza Carthy and Ben Ivitsky, tune based on Dwight Diller's 'Abe's Retreat'
Topic Records Ltd
Topic Records TSCD 571 ( In Australia, through The Planet Company/ MGM
email: info@theplanetcompany.com
website: www.theplanetcompany.com
worldwide: www.topicrec ords.co.uk )
Eliza Carthy - 'Dreams of Breathing Underwater'
3:40
(Live-in-the-studio recording that starts with Eliza's voice and distorted rhythm tenor guitar, joined by electric bass and drums in song that references Pink Floyd's 'The Wall' and 'Money,' sung in the voice of the mindless strivers after monetary success.)

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CD 2, Cut 13 - 'Paulette'
Editions Syliphone Conakry BGDA
Sterns Music STCD 3035/3036 ( in Australia through Fuse Music Group: www.fusemusic.com.au
worldwide: www.sternsmusic.com )
Balla et ses Balladins - 'The Syliphone Years'
Six minute excerpt
(1980 recording of a song about a relationship where trust and confidence have disappeared, sung by Manfila 'Soba' Kanté and Emile Soumah, with excellent muted and trilled electric guitar and soloing tenor sax.)

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