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marvellous boy - calypso from west africa - honest jons records - cd

Genre: African

1. Poor Freetown Boy
2. Taxi Driver (I Dont Care)
3. Ariwo
4. Olubunni
5. Bere Bote
6. Nylon Dress
7. Fire Fire Fire
8. Scrubbs Na Marvellous Boy
9. Dick Tigers Victory
10. Igha Suo Gamwen
11. The Tree and the Monkey
12. Calypso Minor One
13. Cost Of Living Nar Freetown
14. Me Nar Poor Old Man Nor Do Me So
15. Gentleman Bobby
16. Yabomisa Sawale
17. Mami
18. Arria Baby

Marvellous Boy celebrates the West African counterpart of the 1950s Soho scene uncovered in Honest Jon's series London Is The Place For Me. Issuing from centuries of to-ing and fro-ing between England, the West Indies, and West Africa, the same musical styles — calypso, highlife, jazz — overlap, proliferate, and adapt, with local traditions freshened up and thrown into the mix. With numerous faces and reference points cropping up in both milieux, this music-making is brimming over with the same passion for life, sparkling topicality, and extravagant, magpie creativity. Check!