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WGANDA KENYA - SHAKALAODE
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Shakalaode
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PAN006
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Vinyl record
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Ltd 7" Release Of Afrobeat / Funk, With Latin Flava's- Columbian Afro-cumbia sensation Wganda Kenya drew acclaim for their group excursions in dance music, not least for the huge ensemble cast of nine-plus musicians that made them up. ‘Shakalaode’ came in 1976 as the infectiously slackened cover of Fela Kuti’s ‘Shakara’, released five years earlier. Colombian Afrobeat leant more heavily on diasporic rhythmic elements, which differed from Nigerian Afrobeat in that these used regional cumbia, porro and mapalé, descending from Afro populations who had settled along the Pacific and Caribbean coast. Less polyrhythmic and perhaps more tropical in feel, the A-side serves as a shining example, with rushy plucks and strident shouts intro'ing a flavoursome shakedown, and ‘El Abanico’ follows up as a surpriser Fatback Band cover.
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Wganda Kenya is a studio band at the Fuentes record company that was put together some years ago to record non-latin tropical hit songs from places like West Africa, Curaçao and Martinique. Read more on Last.fm. User-contributed text is available under the Creative Commons By-SA License; additional terms may apply.