Honest Jon's Records - London Is The Place For Me 3
1. Januar 2006
Ambrose Adekoya Campbell
London Is The Place For Me 3
A significant musical compilation, London Is The Place For Me 3 focuses on the work of
Nigerian musician Ambrose Adekoya Campbell, recognized as a pioneer of West African music
in Britain. The collection features recordings from 1949 to 1959, originally released on
78 rpm records by the Melodisc label. Campbell's music blends elements of highlife with
calypso, jazz, and palmwine, creating a unique sound that reflects the cultural diversity
of the African diaspora in London.
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Eine bedeutende musikalische Sammlung, London Is The Place For Me 3, konzentriert sich auf
das Werk des nigerianischen Musikers Ambrose Adekoya Campbell, der als Pionier der westafrikanischen
Musik in Großbritannien gilt. Die Kompilation umfasst Aufnahmen aus den Jahren 1949 bis 1959,
die ursprünglich auf 78er-Schallplatten des Melodisc-Labels veröffentlicht wurden. Campbells
Musik kombiniert Elemente des Highlife mit Calypso, Jazz und Palmwine, was einen einzigartigen
Klang ergibt, der die kulturelle Vielfalt der afrikanischen Diaspora in London widerspiegelt.
Tracklist:
West African Rhythm Brothers – We Have It In Africa
West African Rhythm Brothers – Oba Adele
Nigerian Union Rhythm Group – The Wind In A Frolic
West African Rhythm Brothers – Iku Koni Payin
Ayinde Bakare & His Meranda Orchestra – Ibikunle Alakija
West African Rhythm Brothers – Omo Laso
West African Rhythm Brothers – Calabar-O
West African Rhythm Brothers – Emi Wa Wa Lowo Re
West African Rhythm Brothers – Iwa D'Arekere
West African Rhythm Brothers – Ominira
Nigerian Union Rhythm Group – The Memorial Of Chief J. K. Randle
West African Rhythm Brothers – Mofi Ajabi Seyin
Nigerian Union Rhythm Group – Unity
Nigerian Union Rhythm Group – Oratido Soso
West African Rhythm Brothers – Ayami
West African Rhythm Brothers – Oba Ademola II
West African Rhythm Stars – Late Ojo Davies
West African Rhythm Stars – Geneva Conference
West African Rhythm Brothers – Ele Da Awa
West African Rhythm Brothers – Aye Wa Adara
West African Rhythm Brothers – Lagos Mambo
West African Rhythm Brothers – Odudua
West African Rhythm Brothers – I Am A Stranger
Honest Jons
DER Platten Laden überhaupt am Ende der Portobello Road Londons. Egal ob spektakuläre Reissues oder super aktuelle und grossartige elektronische Musik - Honest Jon's hat die Finger im Spiel. "Informal University for music lovers" - wird der Laden liebevoll genannt und ist seit 1974 das Herz der Londoner Musik Community. Das Label Honest Jon's wird unter anderem von Notting Hill local Damon Albarn mitbetrieben. Seit 2008 veröffentlicht Honest Jon's immer wieder Leckerbissen aus den 150 000 78 - rpm Aufnahmen aus den klimakontrollierten archivräumen der EMI archives in Hayes England.
Erhältlich bei: Kitchener Bern
www.honestjons.com
EN: Honest Jon's is an independent record shop based on Portobello Road in Ladbroke Grove, London, operating since 1974. The shop is owned and run by Mark Ainley and Alan Scholefield, who took over from one of the original proprietors, "Honest" Jon Clare. Their record label of the same name is run in conjunction with Damon Albarn, who has been quoted as saying: "I don't really like the term world music. Wherever it comes from, it's all just music, isn't it? Hopefully that's what Honest Jon's is about - to open a few minds to what's out there."[1] The shop sells a multitude of genres of music on vinyl and CD, specializing in jazz, blues, reggae, dance, soul, folk and outernational. It runs a mail-order business from www.honestjons.com. Formed in 2002, the label has released compilation albums such as its London Is The Place For Me series, excavating the music of young Black London, in the years after World War II ("a fascinating archive of material from the 1950s and 60s, chronicling a time when diasporic rhythms were more or less the sole preserve of the small communities responsible for bringing them to these shores");[2] also collections of British folk, Port-of-Spain soca, Afro-Cuban jazz from the Bronx, Jamaican dancehall; and retrospectives of artists including Moondog, Maki Asakawa, Bettye Swann and Cedric "Im" Brooks & The Light of Saba. It has released original music by Candi Staton, Actress, T++, Hypnotic Brass Ensemble, Mark Ernestus, Trembling Bells, The Good, The Bad & The Queen, Simone White, Shackleton, Michael Hurley, Terry Hall, and the Moritz Von Oswald Trio. It recorded the chaabi orchestra of Abdel Hadi Halo on location in Algiers; Lobi Traore and Kokanko Sata Doumbia in Bamako; and Tony Allen in Lagos. In 2008, Honest Jon's began a run of compilations of early recordings — mostly drawn from the EMI Archive in Hayes, Hillingdon — stretching back to the start of the twentieth century, covering all corners of the world: from the break-up of the Ottoman Empire more than a hundred years ago, to 1950s Beirut, to late-1920s Baghdad, to 1930s East Africa. wikipedia