VINYL POP MAKOSSA THE INVASIVE DANCE [VINYL]

Popis - POP MAKOSSA THE INVASIVE DANCE [VINYL]:
'THE INVASIVE DANCE BEAT OF CAMEROON 1976-1984' - An explosive compilation highlighting the period when funk and disco sounds began to infiltrate the Makossa style popular throughout Cameroon. All the tracks on 'Pop Makossa' are a revelation. The beat that holds everything together has its origins in the rhythms of the Sawa people: Ambassey, Bolobo, Assiko and Essewé, a traditional funeral dance. But it wasn't until these rhythms arrived in the cities of Cameroon and collided with merengue, high-life, Congolese rumba, and, later, funk and disco, that modern Makossa was born. Makossa, the beat that long before football, managed to unify the whole of Cameroon, was successful in part because it was so adaptable. Some of the greatest Makossa hits incorporated the electrifying guitars and tight grooves of funk, while others were laced with cosmic flourishes made possible by the advent of the synthesizer.
However much came down to the bass; and from the rubbery hustle underpinning Mystic Djim's 'Yaoundé Girls' to the luminous liquid disco lines which propel Pasteur Lappé's 'The Sekele Movement', 'Pop Makossa' demonstrates why Cameroonian bass players are some of the most revered in the world.