Thanks to Boing Boing for putting me onto some new music. Orchestre Poly-Rythmo de Cotonou are from Benin in West African and were rocking Cotonou (the capital of Benin) in the early 70's. Here is a playlist from Grooveshark. I've always liked African music (in a former life, I took Djembe lessons for a few years) but like a lot of things, if you don't really know where to start you just put off starting. You hear names but can't relate them to any context. It's almost like listening to African music is like joining a secret club.
Now that I've been onto Grooveshark for a while, I've gone from catching up with old music that I missed out on to expanding horizons and chasing obscurity and quality in equal measure. These guys do certainly do that for me. Welcome to the club!
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