Wednesday, July 16, 2025

Musiques du Gabon



MUSIQUES DU GABON 

fang                 ndjabi
kota               obamba
              masango         pounou             
     pygmées     

Ocora, 1968, OCR 441

Here is a cassette I borrowed somewhere also published as a vinyl by Ocora. The recordings were made by the Belgian musicologist Michel Vuylstecke with the help of the Gabonese National Radio. 
Unfortunately the cassette was not issued with all the information that are on the vinyl version. This is nevertheless an opportunity to discover rarely recorded people like the Obamba or the Kota while Fang and Pygmies are well documented. There is an amazing march song by Obamba men on B1. 



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