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siassia & tokobina - siassia & tokobina ep - nouvelle ambiance - vinyl

New Copy

Genre: African

1. Mama Africa
2. In The World
3. Pointe Noire
4. Sangui

Holds the 2 ''best'' tracks from the only Siassia & Talk 12''.. including 2 unreleased tracks! New wave Parisian/Congolese disco and reggae from Siassia & Tokobina, recorded in the mid 80s.

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A series dedicated to cross-cultural experimentation, kicking off with this exhilarating dive into the African underground of 1980s Paris: a four-track EP from Congolese singer Albert Siassia, backed by a group of young French dreads, rechristened Tokobina — “let’s dance,” in Lingala — for the occasion. A mixture of post-punk, rumba, afro-disco and reggae, in two dancefloor sureshots reviving their sole 12” from back in the day, plus previously unreleased fire from the same session.

First one by label from Hugo Mendez (co-founder Sofrito) & Nico Skliris