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    Volta Jazz Air Volta

    Numero
    • Volta Jazz – Air Volta
    • 1. Air Volta
    • 2. Wêrê Wêrê Magne
    • 3. Bi Kameleou
    • 4. Mama Soukous
    • 5. Mousso Koroba Tike
    • 6. Djougou Toro
    • 7. BB Peyrissac
    • 8. Fitri Mawaly
    • 9. Fintalabo

    From the landlocked tropical savanna of Upper Volta, an ever-evolving cast of musicians brought the world’s rhythms to the streets of their native Bobo-Dioulasso. Combining Congolese rhumba, American R&B, French yé-yé, Cuban son, and regional Senufo and Mandingo traditions, Orchestre Volta Jazz was at the epicenter of the West African musical explosion of the ’60s and ’70s. Air Volta compiles nine original songs originally issued on the Disques France-Afrique and Sonafric labels, a peerless primer of a group that turned the brutality of colonialism into something beautiful and enduring.

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