Gibraltar Drakus - Hommage A Zanzibar (2023)
BAND/ARTIST: Gibraltar Drakus
- Title: Hommage A Zanzibar
- Year Of Release: 1988/2023
- Label: Awesome Tapes From Africa
- Genre: world
- Quality: MP3 320 kbps; 16-bit/44.1kHz FLAC
- Total Time: 25 min
- Total Size: 61; 173 MB
- WebSite: Album Preview
Gibraltar Drakus is a visionary bikutsi artist based in Yaounde Cameroon who made his name in the late 80s and early 90s with Les Tetes Brulees and associated acts.
No shortage of colorful characters emerged from Cameroon’s bikutsi scene in the 1980’s and early 90’s. 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 attention of cosmopolitan, thrill-seeking residents of Cameroon’s capital Yaoundé and beyond. Biktusi perfectly fused Beti traditional music and increasingly electronic, highly rhythmic guitar-based bikutsi. Mimicking the sound of village-based xylophone music by rigging a mute to electric guitar strings, bikutsi artists provided a relentlessly energetic dance format for those with a taste for music steeped in their hometown sensibility (countering the popular makossa that many felt sounded less indigenous).
Tracklist:
1.01 - Gibraltar Drakus - N'nom Wom (Mon Époux) (7:07)
1.02 - Gibraltar Drakus - Exode Rural (6:07)
1.03 - Gibraltar Drakus - O Zanzibar (5:15)
1.04 - Gibraltar Drakus - Mekeya A Dzal (Retour Au Village) (7:24)
No shortage of colorful characters emerged from Cameroon’s bikutsi scene in the 1980’s and early 90’s. 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 attention of cosmopolitan, thrill-seeking residents of Cameroon’s capital Yaoundé and beyond. Biktusi perfectly fused Beti traditional music and increasingly electronic, highly rhythmic guitar-based bikutsi. Mimicking the sound of village-based xylophone music by rigging a mute to electric guitar strings, bikutsi artists provided a relentlessly energetic dance format for those with a taste for music steeped in their hometown sensibility (countering the popular makossa that many felt sounded less indigenous).
Tracklist:
1.01 - Gibraltar Drakus - N'nom Wom (Mon Époux) (7:07)
1.02 - Gibraltar Drakus - Exode Rural (6:07)
1.03 - Gibraltar Drakus - O Zanzibar (5:15)
1.04 - Gibraltar Drakus - Mekeya A Dzal (Retour Au Village) (7:24)
Year 2023 | World | FLAC / APE | Mp3
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