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VERY RARE ORIGINAL DEADSTOCK UNPLAYED COPIES WEST AFRICAN RECORDS!!
*9 COPIES AVAILABLE, some have an amount of water damage to sleeve, vinyl unplayed*
VIDEO OF ACTUAL RECORDS: bit.ly/3hYHU0H
(2 secondhand for £50 on Discogs)
Hypnotic and melodic - a bit like a West African brass group playing in Ethiopiques style
Bembeya Jazz National are an important Guinean jazz group that gained fame in the 1960s for their infectious Afropop rhythms. They are considered one of the most significant bands in Guinean music.
(Editions Syliphone Conakry : Guinean state-funded label which ran from 1967 until the death of President Sékou Touré in 1984. The label is based in Conakry, Guinea. Main market for these vinyl records is obviously Guinea, even though the label pressed in France and had French and other distributors as mentioned on records. There was no pressing plant in Guinea ever so the label had to press abroad.