Togo Soul 70
Label : Hot Casa
Catalogue No: HC 47LP
["I Tcho Tchass\nDasi Ko\nN'Bo Eyadema Mobutu\nSenye Ye Na\nMais Dis-Donc\nTralala Vo Dou\nWokunyeya\nAgo Kae Medze\nDzo Le Gbo Nye\nAgbemenyawo\nMi Kpede Dunye\nAdome Nyueto\nLoxo Nye"]
Media Condition : Mint (M)
Sleeve Condition : Mint (M)
Selected rare Togolese recordings featured here from between 1971 to 1981. According to label Hot Casa, finding these tracks and their rights holders was quite the task, involving numerous trips all over the west African country bordered by Ghana , Benin and Burkina Faso. They have selected 13 tracks, which they've charmingly described as 'a snapshot of some hundreds of rare and often forgotten tapes from the most prolific, professional and exciting phase of the country's recording history'. Highlights on this compilation not limited to: Akofa Akoussah's sultry and bittersweet crooning on "I Tcho Tchass", the life affirming Afrobeat vibes of Aime Orchis Mathey's very obscure "Tralala Vo Dou" and of course the very funky and groovy hoedown that is Adamah & Agbote's "Dzo Le Gbo Nye"
