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Post by matt on Feb 11, 2006 16:20:27 GMT
AZDA full speed ahead...killer rumba blasting the Bedward HQ
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Post by lankou2 on Feb 13, 2006 17:08:15 GMT
...was not such a good flamenco player, i've been told!
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Post by consciouspilot on Feb 17, 2006 18:33:11 GMT
Franco is god
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Post by grumpy on Feb 18, 2006 23:04:40 GMT
I assume you are referring to the Congolese axeman rather than el Caudillo de Espana there, Hugh. Alarming theology otherwise.
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Post by Rob on Feb 19, 2006 10:31:57 GMT
Franco's stupendous Attention Na Sida - all 16 mins of it - from 1987 is the climax to this week's Blowin, Sundays 8-10pm UK time, 96.7fm in Bradford and Leeds, www.bcb.yorks.com for web listeners. Both Azda and Attention Na Sida are on Franco - The Rumba Giant Of Zaire, a bargain price release on Manteca. The sleevenotes to this mention a 'definitive 4 CD box set on Sterns Africa' - anyone know this? any good? Rob |
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Post by grumpy on Feb 19, 2006 17:48:16 GMT
Rob, the current (ie March/April) issue of Songlines contains a Beginners Guide to Franco. In the concluding paragraph, Martin Sinnock writes:
"At one point there were plans for Stern's Africa to release a four CD definitive compilation which would have authoritatively covered Franco's career. Sadly the demise of the Sonodisc label prevented the licensing of the recordings".
That rather suggests the project is dead in the water.
In lieu of that, Sinnock recommends these releases (oddly, four of them are on the defunct Sonodisc label):
1. The Rough Guide to Franco (World Music Network, 2001)
2. Franco et L'OK Jazz 1966-1968 (Sonodisc, 1992)
3. Franco & le T.P.O.K. Jazz, 1972/1973/1974 (Sonodisc, 1993). Apparently this is a compilation of two complete LPs ("Azda", the one Bedward mentioned above, and "Mabele")
4. Franco & son T.P.O.K. Jazz, 3ieme Anniversaire de la Mort du Grand Maitre Yorgho (Sonodisc, 1993)
5. Grand Maitre Franco et Seigneur Rochereau, Lettre a Monsieur le Directeur General (Sonodisc, 1994)
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Post by consciouspilot on Feb 20, 2006 17:15:02 GMT
Ooops, I thought I was on the Spanish revisionist history board that I also frequent......
Pilot
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Post by lankou2 on Feb 20, 2006 19:13:59 GMT
oh, and you even had time to revise Spanish history after saturday night out and your sunday cleaning-vacuuming session!what metal are you made of  ?? ; ) |
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Post by matt on Feb 20, 2006 19:19:45 GMT
Sterns have Fresh supplies of franco..get them now whilst stocks last
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Post by consciouspilot on Feb 22, 2006 16:32:38 GMT
Rey, I was feeling pretty ragged with that hoover in my hand I can tell you!
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Post by lankou2 on Feb 22, 2006 19:24:02 GMT
woke up at 10 am, slept at 4 am, woke up at7.30 pm! yeah!
walking down the stairs
with an old hoover in your hand
Hughie too bad, that's what they say...Yeah, rings a bell somewhere! ; )
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?? ; )