Hommage A Zanzibar: CD th1rt3en from street signs to snapshots

from street signs to snapshots

explosive and expansive trip

who considers committing a crime in order to provide for his newborn child

sleepless nights and growing pains that define this record

completed by Lamere and Artaud 25 years after the songs were first captured

Hommage A Zanzibar: CD th1rt3en from street signs to snapshotsNo shortage of colorful characters emerged from Cameroons bikutsi scene in the 1980s and early 90s. Gibraltar Drakus is one of the most enduring and enigmatic of the artists who helped transform bikutsi into a beautifully endless fabric of triplet rhythms that eventually reached ears around the world. Following the advent of Cameroon Radio Television in 1987, bikutsi began to supplant makossa and soukous for domination of the local airwaves and the