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Super Rail Band · 1985 · Dernier titre de l'album, hommage au pays dans son titre

Context

Track from New Dimensions in Rail Culture, recorded in late 1982 by the Super Rail Band of Bamako and released by GlobeStyle in 1985. The record blends Manding traditions, Ghanaian highlife, Zairean rumba and electric instruments.

In the genealogy of jazz

This track belongs to Afrobeat, makossa, highlife-jazz. Among the origins and influences of Afrobeat, makossa, highlife-jazz: Soul jazz, boogaloo, Fusion, jazz-rock, jazz-funk.

By the same artist

• Foliba (1985)
• Bediana Mogo (1985)
• Tallassa (1985)
• Konowale (1985)

Sources

• allaboutjazz.com
• EN: Rail Band

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