• 1.1. new track
  • 1.2. la condition masculine
  • 1.3. wuma te
  • 1.4. divorce pygmee
  • 1.5. fleurs tropicale
  • 1.6. tiers monde
  • 1.7. agatha
  • 1.8. pygmy love song
  • 1.9. catching up
  • 1.10. sahel
  • 1.11. the coffee cola song
  • 1.12. super jingle
  • 1.13. savanah georgia
  • 1.14. il n'y a pas de crocodiles a cocody

bebey, francis

african electronic music 1975-82

AFRICAN ELECTRONIC MUSIC 1975-82

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AFRICAN ELECTRONIC MUSIC 1975-82

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Cameroonian musician Francis Bebey is truly one of a kind. He entered the music scene with his African compositions for classical guitar. He gave recitals while pursuing a career in journalism and then as an international civil servant. The same creative impulse also led him to write pop songs, and some of which (based on novels he had written) became big hits in Africa and in the French-speaking world. But few people know that in the '70s, Francis Bebey delved into electronic music. The first electronic keyboards, organs and drum machines offered him new possibilities of totally controlling his compositions. He embraced the technique of "sound on sound" recording (recording several tracks, sequentially juxtaposed on the same tape). This new stage in ... read more