Play slow. Slow. Slow. Slow. Slow. The 1st. And updated version of the big international hit that Monod Bongo had the saxophonist a maroon but player originally from Cameroon there are a different version of soul MCO saying as we mark Cameron's national day with some music from that country and to artists least originally from Cameroon hear some music from. Doing their distinctive style of book would see rock the title track of a release from the Tepper Les here in the global village. The Only. And that that's what we call rock n roll here in the global village some but could see rock from late Tepper Les Deux in a style of music that has its roots in a traditional form from Cameroon as far back as on not quite but almost a century ago there were popular forms that began to emerge that added new instruments and influences and that would continue one led to play one of the groups to have that kind of electric and rock n roll influence to the sound as well because Iraq was the name of one of their albums and we just heard the title track of that so we also heard that modernized version of money to bang goes to big international hits so MCO so and we started was selling Iolo he was born in Cameroon moved to Paris although I believe she eventually did. Go back to Cameroon at least at least for a while but started her career there was a back up singer became a member of. And then launched a solo career and from an album that she did in 2014 called Tiger run we heard welcome as we are marking Cameroon National Day This time here in the global village as we mentioned at the time it marks a date in 1902 when what had been 2 Federated entities one that had previously been a French colony the other that had been a British colony became a unified nation of Cameroon and it's a national holiday in that country and an excuse for us to wash year some sounds from Cameroon this time around we'll take a quick break and when we return an interesting release that came out from an artist from Cameroon by the name of Blick basi he did an album called 1958 that actually was and not tributes to Ruben all Niobe who was an advocate for independence for Cameroon and it actually was killed in 1958 in the course of this project with Bassie argues he's an important figure in Cameroon history and has been to some degree forgotten and now hopes that this particular release will will do something to rectify that we'll hear some music from it the 1958 album from Blick basi when we return in just a minute here to the global village. 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Little diddy there called not getting which in back means all of us together and that's music from back to beyond a project that was started by Martin Craddock who had been a member of the group out back in Sioux hearts they went to Cameroon to spend time with the back of forest people and inspired by that have incorporated their music and a number of other influences into their work as well that particular piece from their album after the tempest music from back beyond heard music from Gino sits and based in New York now but originally from Cameroon from his album echo chamber Gino on vocals and body percussion and doing a piece called Aladdin memories dedicated to John Alon who was the father of a style of music from Cameroon and that again from you know citizens album echo chamber we also heard singer and songwriter and guitarist from Cameroon by the name of Henri to Congo from his diaspora album the piece Johm and bleak basi So we mentioned an album that he did called 1958 that was dedicated to Reuben or Niobe a who was an early advocate for independence for Cameroon he was killed in 1958 hence the title of the album and he says that he is a hero who has been in many ways forgotten by the people of Cameroon and hopes that this album will draw some attention to him once again but bassy 1958 the piece as we mark the occasion of a national day which took place originally on the 20th of May 1972 bringing the country of Cameroon into one united nation from what had been 2 previously Federated colonies and who are using that as an opportunity to explore some of the different sounds and styles in artists of Cameroon We're back in just a minute with another and this actually taken from a groundbreaking album that came out in the late eighty's that was one of the 1st international releases to highlight music from. Both Cameroon and skate very day and one of the big pieces on it and what gave the release its name was African typical action from Sam fan Thomas who a few years earlier had had a huge hit a cross Africa and other parts of the world with that song we will hear that song from Sam fan Thomas in just a minute when we return to the global village. I didn't know whether to just sit down and go. David Bromberg joins us on the next mountain stage along with the devil makes 3 allies a Gilkerson the suitcase junket and Darla Henderson Hi this is David Bromberg joined me this weekend live performance on mountains. Dimensions Avery sharks album 400 and African American musical portrait. I'm Johnny Meister will follow African-American history with music of a very sharp from the arrival of the 1st slaves to modern times on the next dimension. Shoot. Shoot shoot. Shoot. Shoot. Shoot. Wow. We've. Previously. We've. We've. We've. We've. We've . We've we've. We've. We've. Was. We've. We've. Was. 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To get out a couple of compilations I came out in the 80s just as that whole world music thing a as it's got dubbed at the time was beginning to take off there at the end from the sound of free compilation that drew on some music from a number of different places across Africa and there from Cameroon the Congo with Mae boy ya and we also heard African tipping collection that particular song was a huge hit for Sam fan Thomas It also gave its name to a compilation of music both from Cameroon the Cape Verdi and it included that song sampan Thomas with African to be collection as we have been spending a little bit of time sharing some sounds from Cameroon for Cameroon's National Day and the full playlist of everything we. Plate information about upcoming shows world music news videos and more on our Facebook page that's at Facebook dot com slash Global Village radio you can also reach us there or by e-mail at info at. 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