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Agnaldo Rayol Feat. Claudya - Sumaúma (1971)

Another cool Brazilian record rescued by the people at Mr. Bongo, who describe it thusly: "This epic track has a psyche break-beat drum and bass groove intro." Agnaldo Rayol is probably better known as an actor.

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A Tribe Called Quest “Scenario” German yellow 7″ (1992, 2019)

What’s the scenario? Mr. Bongo will clue you in. Brighton’s all-in-one music label, film label, and record store re-issued Tribe’s block-party rap last year. 100 copies in total were pressed on yellow vinyl for distribution in Germany. Right now is the best time to re-visit one of A Tribe Called Quest’s many bonafide gold-era classics.

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Kit Sebastian — Mantra Moderne (Mr. Bongo)

Mantra Moderne plies a retro sort of futurism, its sleek compositions glittering with forward-looking cool from about 1971. Europop, lounge jazz, Latin slink and Turkish psych bubble in its polyglot super shiny mix, as if all the cultures in the world got a spin, right here on a Jetson-esque space station. On a cursory listen, you might assume it’s one of those records that got away from us before the listen-to-everything-right-now internet era, but actually it was written and record just last year, on a mess of Latin percussion instruments, exotic strings (balalaikas, ouds) , cheesy 1970s synths and laid-back, in-the-pocket guitar, bass and drums.

Kit Sebastian is not, as you might assume, a single person’s name. It stands in shorthand for a duo, instrumentalist Kit Martin (who lives in London and France) and singer Merve Erdem, who hails from Istanbul and now lives in London. Perhaps its Erdem who brings the disc its pronounced Anatolian flavor, starting with a cover of “Senden Baska,” a song about infatuation (trembling legs, burning lips, etc.) made popular by the Turkish singer Göksel. Here the duo slants a guitar riff through bleats and surges of stylish synth waves. They split the singing, he scratchy and baritone, she airy and aiming at pop.

Elsewhere the sound shifts towards Latin America, prompting the inevitable Os Mutantes reference. Martin plays a lot of different drums, hand drums, cowbells, a variety of scratched and shaken instruments and the hiccup-y, Brazilian Cuica. You can hear the slink and roll of all this percussion best on cuts like “Pangea.” The drumming also adds some zip to the serpentine swagger of “Yanimda Kal,” another Turkish-sourced cut.

Mantra Moderne is an engaging oddity, suave on its surface, but giddy with DIY experiment underneath. Of no specific country, it evokes a whole bunch of them. Of no definitive time period, it hints at a future that may once have seemed possible and now looks unlikely.

Jennifer Kelly

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Spinning Sunday or: The Haul 6/5/21

Spinning Sunday or: The Haul 6/5/21

Salutations™!! The BCPF and I went to eat first at Cafe Arthur’s which we hadn’t been to in about 18 months. We then went to a drag carwash to get Anabelle washed for the second time in two days. Then, we hopped over to Underdog Records and then home to do some listening. Here’s the haul: Various – The Original Sound Of Burkina Faso — Mr. Bongo is a world music record label that specializes in…

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Lots to appreciate about this stuff.

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A Song A Day #10 - A wicked wicked tune. An incredible latin jazz tune from the early seventies. I was first turned on to this by a Mr. Bongo compilation released in 2000 called  Latin Beats - A Tribute To Tito Puente. It’s the lead track so there was no way I was gonna miss this one. If this doesn’t grab you then I guess there’s no hope. Apparently original copies of percussionist Sabu Martinez’s album Afro Temple featuring this tune once changed hands for $3000. Please please please check this tune out.