VINYL BELLYACHERS, LISTEN -.. [VINYL]

Popis - BELLYACHERS, LISTEN -.. [VINYL]:
SONGS FROM EAST AFRICA, 1938-1946. Precious, stinging selections from an HMV run of more than four hundred 78s, recordings made in Uganda and Kenya from the mid-1930s till the mid-1950s. Three main types of performance are featured (not forgetting a lovely early Kenyan big-band calypso, as if straight from the pen of Lord Kitchener). Most are minstrelsy, with songs ranging dazzlingly through subjects including loneliness and death, bastards and cut-off trousers, trains of fire and no-good rich people, a murder mystery and a drunken punch-up at a rumba party in Kampala, and metaphorical cocks, hard pedalling and kettles which won't boil.
Tracks:
Ssekinomu - 'Wireless'
Ali And Party - 'Enyi Wa Hiari'
J.P. Nyangira - 'Hongo Owiti'
Ochieng - 'Olieu'
Sumoni And Party - 'Soya'
J.P. Nyangira - 'John Geko'
Owombo Wa Agola - 'Ahenda'
Jumbe Ali - 'Silwezi Tabu'
Karanja And Party - 'Gechande'
Shinda Gikombe - 'Njane Kanini'
Chuba Shee - 'Kuleta Fakira'
Badi And Party - 'Wangu Mliwazi'
Florence - 'Omwoyo Gwa Mukwano'
Machakos Party - 'Meselou'
Mbuyi - 'James Onunga'
Ssekinomu - 'Ekyalema Nakato'
John Killion Guara - 'W. Apondo'