Makaya McCraven
In The Moment

French label Favorite Records is proud to presents this official and first-ever reissue of The First Coming, by Twylyte ’81, an extremely rare and underrated Soul-Jazz album produced and released in 1981.Twylyte ’81 was a 3 pieces band composed of Frank Jones Jr., Alfred Brown Jr. and John Belzaguy, who, except for John, have never recorded anything else than this incredible album. The First Coming is primarily standing out by a superb composition, mixing touches of Soul, Jazz, and Disco together. It secondly shines thanks to the amazingly deep and spiritual voice of the band leader, Frank Jones Jr., whose vocals style can sometimes remind of John Lucien. Even more impressive is the fact that these 3 fellas were all less or close to 18 years old when composing and recording this beauty. As did others brilliant hidden projects such as Ted Coleman Band, or Minority Band, it was also useful for Twylyte ’81 to receive the support of JSR Records, a kind of non-profit label dedicated to help young bands and artists in recording and producing their own records. Absolutely stunning !

Face A :Musique berbère du haut-atlas.El Hussain Safir,Chant et bendir.Lahcen Akil.Lotar.Lahcen Bouri.Chant et violon.Face B;Antoine ELIAS : Keyboards, NIMB, vx.Anatole PETIT : Drums, vx.Enregistré a Tamlate ,vallée de Dades.Février 2016.Artwork Krystian Trog.Enregistrement et mixage,Lutch et Clodo Misére,Master,R.Cuvillier,Production,Olivier et Lucien.

Brown Label reissue release beg. of the 70s (og 1959). Chilly Tjader ! w/ Mongo Santamaria & Willie Bobo perc/drums...

After his international debut #1 in 2018, the north Ghanaian Kologo (a two stringed proto-banjo) master Guy One is back with his brand new band, consisting of Kumasi's finest young talents, plus Florence Adooni and Tenni Akagam as his choir voices.So La Ma La has a straight forward Highlife rhythm which melts together with some funky articulated afrobeat-a-like bass line. To Kale Na'nabala is instead in the traditional Kete rhythm, a bounce poly-rhythm in 12/8. But both songs are mostly defined through Guy One's Kologo lines and his soulful interpretation of the typical north-ghanaian vocal style.