15+ years ago, I worked with a young Beninese Brass Band. Here's one of the tracks we produced at the time.
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Gangbé Brass Band – Salam Alekoum
https://amf.didiermary.fr/gangbe-brass-band-salam-alekoum/
Salam Alekoum is one of the very nice songs, with a beautiful video filmed in Ganvié, by Gangbe Brass Band for their 2010 album “Assiko“.
Ganvié is known as the “venetian” part of Benin…
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Gangbé – Documentary
https://amf.didiermary.fr/documentary-arnaud-robert-gangbe-brass-band/
Preview of the 2014 documentary by Arnaud Robert relating Gangbé Brass Band‘s “quest” to record their new album and play in Lagos.
The adventure of a Benin brass band on the road to Lagos, to perform with Femi Kuti at the Shrine. […]
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Gangbé, the sound of metal
https://amf.didiermary.fr/sound-metal-gangbe-brass-band/
Enjoy the Sound of Metal (Gangbe in Fon)!
The Gangbé Brass Band was founded in 1994 as a 10-member Beninese musical ensemble. It later evolved towards a more classical, albeit smaller, marching band, as it is today. Their older albums combine traditional Vodoun rhythms and drums, arranged with vocal harmonies, and, of course, a lot […]
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Eyo’nle Brass Band – Africa Night
https://amf.didiermary.fr/eyonle-brass-band-africa-night/
Le groupe Eyo’nlé Brass Band (“Réjouissons-nous” en Yoruba), créé par Mathieu Ahouandjinou avec certains de ses frères (une famille avec de nombreux musiciens inspirés par leur père), a fait le chemin inverse du Gangbé Brass Band. D’abord fanfare, dont la motivation est de valoriser la musique béninoise hors des frontières du Bénin en produisant une [...]
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Gangbé Brass Band – Remember Fela
https://amf.didiermary.fr/whendo-gangbe-brass-band-remember-fela/
Remember Fela is from Gangbé’s album Whendo (Roots) in 2004. It’s a tribute to Fela Kuti by the Beninese Brass Band.
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Jazz/The African Sound
https://amf.didiermary.fr/jazz-african-sound-chris-mcgregor/
“Jazz/The African Sound” by Chris McGregor & The Castle Lager Big Band, one of the most important African records of all time, a lost global jazz classic, and a true holy grail for collectors of Jazz and WorldJazz.
Christopher McGregor (1936 – 1990) was a South African Jazz pianist, bandleader and composer born in Somerset […]
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