SEARCH: mainly 70s african guitar pop with bitchin rhythms

Yea, "Electric Highlife: Sessions from the Bokoor Studios" on Naxos World is a great collection of Ghanian '70s and '80s highlife.

I was just reading somewhere about a new collection of obscure 70s Nigerian stuff. I had that written down (must find it).

There's a nice Senegalese blog ("Benn Loxo du Taccu") I like: mattgy.net/music

this is fairly middling, i think. the one track with a hot rhythm [yaka duru] is the earliest on there, the only pre-80s track and it shows.

that said, i am not ruling out 80s records any more than 60s ones... i did include "guitar paradise" in my list to illustrate that fact. sure the solid state studio sound, cheap synths ruined lots of records, and lots of records appeared in the world music boom that should never have gotten the exposure they did, but this thread should be a place for sieving through that and claiming the gold.

Rail Band
you're talking about the sono africa reissue, right? yeah, that's a quite pleasant record, although not so different to my ears as, say, "definitive dairo" or something like that

John Storm Roberts' Original Music
i have "nairobi sound", "africa dances", and "kenya dry", they are indeed excellent, while not quite as rhythmically hard as what i was talking about in this post... of this series what i am most keen to acquire is one of the oriental brothers comps...

Sam Mangwana
have heard of this, will add it to the wish list, thnx

franco
thirded

ethiopiques
yeah, this isn't what i'm talking about at all, apart from vol. 4 maybe... but while on the subject, i think #7 is the most essential

bhundo boys
not so into this

Malombo
never heard of this, will check it out

Super Djata Band
seconded. great guitar on this, pretty harsh treble at times, i like it a lot

when he revisited his first album, (got santana on guitar which is not quite what you meant by guitar pop) but the rhythms are indeed bitchin'

I'm starting to plumb the depths of Guinea and its national label/bands. I've heard some Bembeya stuff I like, but the real treat has been 22 Band. I first heard a great track on a WFMU show and then found this:

http://matsuli.blogspot.com/2007/10/lets-make-that-22-then.html

Fantastic album.

Do Osibisa count?

Daniel Owino Misiani & Shirati Band Benga Blast (fierce Kenyan guitar pop with heavy bass lines; to this dabbler's ears it sounds sort of like soukous riding a S African groove).

I think the more recent Kings Of History which was actually recorded several years earlier,probably best part of a decade. Sound is better too it having been remastered last year. The cd of Benga Blast I have is pretty quiet.
Been hoping that Kings Of History would be rerally popular and cause people to compile a lot more Benga. Been trying to get hold of more since first coming across Shirati Jazz on a single that I first really remember appearing at hiome in the early 80s. My dad is a Luo, the tribe who create the music. Don't think he was musical though.
so hoping Kings provokes the compiling of a volume 2.

Random youtube stumble, know nothing about the band but sounds incredible
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NcB1k282z9c

mislabeled btw, that's Orchestre Kara de Kinshasa (as shown in picture), not Canon du Zaire. At least the first 40 mins or so are.