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Super Mama Djombo Discography of CDs
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Super Mama Djombo CD (2003)
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There are also some unusual details, like the strange whistling on "Pansau Na Isna," for example; it's jarring and completely unexpected, but it works. There's some searing music, some beautiful singing, and a very electric atmosphere throughout. Across the whole album there's plenty of driving percussion, always understated, and the guitars offer a mesh of sound that happily owes little to Congolese rhumba -- the fretwork is harder. But it's only one of the great things here. From its beginnings in a boy scout camp, Super Mama Djombo emerged to become one of the country's leading bands during the late '70s and into the earliest part of the '80s. The 14 tracks here are the product of their only recording session, in 1980, six glorious hours that produced some amazing music, including the West African hit "Pamparida," based on a children's song, a track that made them into regional stars. Here's a wonderful little slice of history from the tiny country of Guinea-Bissau. This region's struggle for independence was a widely influential cultural movement, and it was an
Recorded in Portugal in 1979.
Personnel: Joao (Tombo) Mota (guitar).
Liner Note Author: Tom Schnabel.
Recording information: Valentim De Carvalho Studios, Lisbon, Portugal (1976) Six of these tracks have never been released before, making this a vital document of one of the most important African bands of the late '70s. ~ Chris Nickson
This album was created by the legendary electric roots orchestra Super Mama Djombo hailing from the former Portuguese colony of Guinea-Bissau, West Africa. Inevitably, there are Cuban elements in the music, as in the opener, "Faibe Guiné," but the African element is always highly evident -- "Ordem Do Dia" couldn't be from anywhere else, with its gorgeous guitar arpeggios and ineffable harmonies.
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Golden Afrique Vol. 1 CDs (2005)
Super Mama Djombo CD discography
$35.79 
Liner Note Authors: Gunter Gretz; Jean Trouillet.
Translators: Ishbel Flett; Isabelle Jue.
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Very Best Of West Africa
Very Best Of West Africa CD (2007) (Import)
Super Mama Djombo albums
$19.99
2007 two CD set. The Very Best of West Africa has long been the source of the continent's most vibrantly modern dance music and home to some of its most profoundly traditional sounds.
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Super Mama Djombo music CDs Alternate spellings: CD discography of songs by band, discographie, dicography, discology, disography, discografie, discogrophy, diskography.
 Super Mama Djombo Songs
Popular or famous Super Mama Djombo music songs: Dissan Na M'Bera, Faire Guine, Aboku Boku Bandi, Assalariado, Djuana, Faibe Guine, Gardessi, Guine-Cabral. More music songs Indicativo, Julia, Ordem Do Dia, Pamparida, Pansau Na Isna, Seya, Seiango.
Super Mama Djombo discography Key Personnel
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Skulptor, Elevator Ride, David Glaser
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