number 6

Uele Kalabubu et sa Tribu - Afroground (1968)

Wednesday, 10. October 2007, 18:48:08

I RATE YOU THIS EXCELLENT vinyl LP that was provided to me by my friend Greg. An awesome taste and flavour of african grooves, a pure afro-exotica trip ! They seems to come from Congo or Gabon, but i’m not sure reading the LP label. Few, very few infos to find around the web. A fantastic hypnotic track like ‘Afro-Disiac’ is avalaible on the Pulp Flavor sampler « La Guêpe - volume 2 », "Matata" sounds fantastic too. I’m not pretty sure about the 1968 dating. But seems to have any connection with Garcia Morales, Ralph Benatar & Tony Perdone, all belgian guys ( ?) and involved, for some, in ‘El Chicles’ and in different records label like Blue Elephant, Biram (this one), RKM or Topkapi. Just for fun, i listened to this record with an added reverb effect and enhanced bass on my main PC, and it sounds pretty good like african new-wave ! ! I rate you to use a real Hi-Fi system to obtain the best result. So, here are 2 zip files, the original & the ‘enhanced’ version. Enjoy this experience !
Uele Kalabubu et sa Tribu
Afroground
© 1968 Disc AZ
STEC LP 62

Face A :

A1. Makelele
A2. Nina Kwenda Africa
A3. Sassa Boumbitumba
A4. Mutoto Una Zara
A5. Liambo
A6. Matata

Face B :

B1. Baba d’Uele
B2. Patatalo
B3. Tara Din Din
B4. Simbalele
B5. Afro-Disiac
B6. Kalabubu Uele

links in the comments

ripped & encoded at 256 kbps + artwork
special thanks to Greg
be seeing you !

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number06 # 10. October 2007, 18:50

Original LP
hOOp://www.zshare.net/download/4133413b9e666f/

Bass & Reverb Experience
hOOp://www.zshare.net/download/413374117191d6/

Anonymous # 11. October 2007, 07:34

Zadig writes:

Many thanks for this and all your other offerings. I hope you know how much I appreciate your time and efforts! Peace.

Anonymous # 11. October 2007, 09:32

Calmos writes:

Super, merci ! Ne t'arrêtes pas sur ta lancée, continue à ripper pour notre plus grand plaisir car je crois savoir que tu as encore pas mal de matière première!

number06 # 11. October 2007, 11:40

Exact ! J'ai vraiment CRAQUE sur Afroground. Effectivement j'ai encore pas mal de matière première dans mon labo et de plus je suis assez motivé en ce moment. Que demande le peuple, j'vous l'demande !

Anonymous # 13. October 2007, 19:06

yesyesyes writes:

Very cool , looks great - thanks

number06 # 15. October 2007, 11:29

... yes, it sounds great too

Anonymous # 2. November 2007, 13:59

coffee messiah writes:

Bonjour and Thanks! Cheers!

payola # 12. November 2007, 07:52

What happened to Cosmo?

number06 # 13. November 2007, 07:35

...maybe an unfortunately successfully brainstorm directed by number 2. So awful the last time in the village...

be seeing you !

Anonymous # 15. November 2007, 07:43

KiDG writes:

Thanks for this!

Anonymous # 27. November 2007, 20:39

Eiffel writes:

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Eiffel

mellowstar # 28. December 2007, 19:56

Please could you tell me how I get to check out these amasing records, is their a download section

Anonymous # 1. January 2008, 16:39

Jumaane writes:

Thanks! I just downloaded this.

To shed some light on the origins of the group... I know nothing about them but they sing in Swahili, and in the kind of Swahili spoken in the eastern part of Congo, northern Zambia, Rwanda, Burundi, maybe Kenya...
so that leaves out Gabon where nobody speaks Swahili unless they are Congolese immigrants.

And the only place where they speak French too is Congo/Rwanda/Burundi...

There's another group that reminded me of Uele Kalabubu: Soseme Makonde, who released a 7 inch / 12 inch by that name (b-side: Manzara) in the mid 70s in France through EMI; the sleeve says it was recorded in Nairobi and the lyrics are Swahili, but the composer of the song (whose picture is on the back) is Greek!

number06 # 7. January 2008, 08:31

Hi Jumaane,

Many thanks for the complete informations about Uele Kalabubu. I did'nt known these connections & the specificity of the languages. Happy new year 2008.

Anonymous # 10. January 2008, 22:45

Anonymous writes:

another brilliant album no6..this is excellent. thankyou :)

Anonymous # 7. February 2008, 15:03

doctor_spock writes:

merci bien

MANU... # 6. March 2008, 22:12

Mais où es tu donc? ils ont finis par t'avoir au village???
Tu manques sérieusement à la toile!

number06 # 10. March 2008, 08:16

Salut Manu,

merci pour ce petit mot. Effectivement, je lutte durement contre le regain de lavages de cerveaux de ces derniers temps. La vie semble de + en + difficile au village. Un épisode inédit du prisonnier qui s'intitule ... "démotivation" ! Je vais me ressaisir pour l'épisode suivant ... A+

MANU... # 10. March 2008, 16:04

Anonymous # 18. July 2008, 21:54

Anonymous writes:

MERCI! :-)

Thanks for this and all of the records from your other blogs.

I added you to my site over at,
http://versionsgalore.blogspot.com/

post more Wolfgang Press!

Anonymous # 17. December 2008, 19:54

WaaterprOOf writes:

La fille sur la pochette, c'est la même que sur Nico Gomez, "Ritual", la connexion belge avec les Chakachas... Je crois même avoir vu toute une série de pochettes avec cette fille sur un site, mais où ?

number06 # 25. December 2008, 12:20

... Au village, tout naturellement !

Anonymous # 27. March 2009, 14:20

Warren writes:

Hi!
The file is no longer available.
Can you help me with this?
Thanks so much.
Mabuhay!

Warren
warrenbacorro@ymail.com

Anonymous # 6. April 2009, 01:24

Sean writes:

Hey any chance for a re-up??

Thanks!!!

Anonymous # 24. May 2009, 16:12

jack writes:

salut exellent blog que j'ai decouvert par hasard! ca fait plaisir la vraie musique!!
tu peux re up stp le lien est mort! merci d'avance! a plus

Anonymous # 1. November 2009, 12:33

phantom of the radio writes:

re-up please, i would love to listen to this one. Thanks.