After being blown away by a few tunes – probably just as you will be after listening to this – Samy Ben Redjeb travelled to the infamous capital city of Somalia in November of 2016, making Analog Africa the frst music label to set foot in Mogadishu. On his arrival in Somalia Samy questioned the need for a vehicle full of armed chaperones casually toting Kalashnikovs, deemed necessary to accompany him to the radio station archive every morning, but then began ri?ing through piles of cassettes and listening to reel-to-reel tapes in the dusty archives of Radio Mogadishu, looking for music that ‘swam against the current’. The stars were aligned: an uncovered and unmarked pile of discarded recordings was discovered in a cluttered corner of the building. Colonel Abshir - the senior employee and protector of Radio Mogadishu’s archives - clarifed that the pile consisted mostly of music nobody had manage to identify, or music he described as being ‘mainly instrumental and strange music’. At the words ‘strange music’ Samy was hooked, the return ?ight to Tunisia was cancelled. The pile turned out to be a cornucopia of different sounds: radio jingles, background music and interludes for radio programmes, television shows and theatre plays. There were also a good number of disco tunes, some had been stripped of their lyrics, the interesting parts had been recorded multiple times then cut, taped together and spliced into a long groovy instrumental loop. Over the next three weeks, often in watermelon-, grapefruit-juice and shisha-fuelled night-time sessions behind the fortifed walls of Radio Mogadishu, Samy and the archive staff put together Mogadisco: Dancing Mogadishu - Somalia 1972–1991. Like everywhere in Africa during the 1970s, both men and women sported huge afros, bell-bottom trousers and platform shoes. James Brown, Stevie Wonder, Marvin Gaye and The Temptations’ funk were the talk of the town.In 1977, Iftin Band were invited to perform at the Festac festival in Lagos where they represented Somalia at the Second World Black and African Festival of Arts and Culture. Not only did they come back with an award, but they also returned with Afrobeat. While Fela Kuti’s ‘Shakara’ had taken over the continent and was spreading like wildfre throughout Latin America, it was the track ‘Lady’ that would become the hit in Mogadishu. At the same time Bob Marley was busy kick-starting reggae-mania in Somalia, which became such a phenomenon that even the police and military bands began playing it. Some say that it was adopted so quickly because of the strong similarities with the traditional beat from the western region of Somalia, called Dhaanto. But then suddenly the trousers got tighter as the disco tsunami hit the country. Michael Jackson appeared with a new sound that would revolutionise Somalia’s live music scene. You couldn’t walk the streets of Mogadishu without seeing kids trying to moonwalk. ‘Somalia had several nightclubs and although most use DJs to play records, some hotels like Jubba, Al-Uruba and Al Jazeera showcased live bands such as Iftin and Shareero’ – so ran a quote from a 1981 article about the explosion of Mogadishu’s live music scene. The venues mentioned in that article were the luxury hotels that had been built to cover the growing demands of the tourist industry. The state-of-the-art hotel Al-Uruba, with its oriental ornaments and white plastered walls, was a wonder of modern architecture. All of Mogadishu’s top bands performed there at some point or another, and many of the songs presented in this compilation were created in such venues. Mogadisco was not Analog Africa’s easiest project. Tracking down the musicians – often in exile in the diaspora – to interview them and gather anecdotes of golden-era Mogadishu has been an undertaking that took three years. Tales of Dur-Dur Band’s kidnapping, movie soundtracks recorded in the basements of hotels, musicians getting electrocuted on stage, others jumping from one band to another under dramatic circumstances, and soul singers competing against each other, are all stories included in the massive booklet that accompanies the compilation - adorned with no less then 50 pictures from the `70s and ‚80s. As Colonel Abshir Hashi Ali, chief don at the Radio Mogadishu archive – someone who once wrestled a bomber wielding an unpinned hand-grenade to the ?oor – put it: ‘I have dedicated my life to this place. I’m doing this so it can get to the next generation; so that the culture, the heritage and the songs of Somalia don’t disappear.’

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Disponibile dal 20/11 TRACKLIST: A1 ▻ GIANNI FERRIO | Classe Mista – M17 * A2 ▻ GIANNI FERRIO | L’infermiera di notte – Seq. 7 ** A3 ▻ GIANNI FERRIO | L’infermiera di notte – Seq. 12 ** A4 ▻ PULSAR MUSIC LTD | Taxi Girl – M20 * A5 ▻ FRANCO MICALIZZI | Scusi lei è normale? – M33 * B1 ▻ ALESSANDRO ALESSANDRONI | La professoressa di scienze naturali – Titoli * B2 ▻ GLORIA GUIDA | La musica è B3 ▻ FRANCO CAMPANINO | Lezioni di disco-music B4 ▻ DETTO MARIANO | Cornetti alla crema – (Polymoog Dance Edit) ** B5 ▻ FRANCO CAMPANINO | Appuntamento al treno (tema reggae) * C1 ▻ NICO FIDENCO | La sposina – M36 * C2 ▻ FABIO FRIZZI | Sette ragazze di classe – M6 * C3 ▻ GIANNI FERRIO | La settimana bianca – M1 * C4 ▻ WALTER RIZZATI | L’insegnante balla con tutta la classe – Seq. 1 ** C5 ▻ VITTORIO PEZZOLLA (arranged by ALESSANDRO ALESSANDRONI) | La Liceale – Seq. 2 ** C6 ▻ ALESSANDRO ALESSANDRONI | La professoressa di scienze naturali – M23 * D1 ▻ NICO FIDENCO | La sposina – M16 * D2 ▻ ENRICO SIMONETTI | Grazie Nonna (Ballando con Maria Juana) ** D3 ▻ GIANNI FERRIO | Classe mista – Seq. 1 * D4 ▻ GIACOMO DELL’ORSO | L’infermiera di mio padre – M9 * D5 ▻ GIANNI FERRIO | La settimana bianca – Seq. 1 * * PREVIOUSLY UNRELEASED ** UNRELEASED ON VINYL The infamous Italian sexy-comedy genre now has its own saucy compilation. 21 cuts, including 13 tracks never published before on any format, taken from the finest original soundtracks of the genre. From groovy disco bangers and charming jazz-funk, sleazy-listening and rock blends, to analogue electronic experiments, these iconic sounds embody the essence of the Italian movie industry at the end of the 70s. Pure “aerobic groove” that spells out the melodic action of female starlets like Gloria Guida, Edwige Fenech, Nadia Cassini, Lilli Carati, and all the other heroines in this genre of film whose main task was not only to tease and undress, but to dance on the screen. The infamous Italian sexy-comedy genre now has its own saucy compilation. 21 cuts, including 13 tracks never published before on any format, taken from the finest original soundtracks of the genre. From groovy disco bangers and charming jazz-funk, sleazy-listening and rock blends, to analogue electronic experiments, these iconic sounds embody the essence of the Italian movie industry at the end of the 70s. Pure “aerobic groove” that spells out the melodic action of female starlets like Gloria Guida, Edwige Fenech, Nadia Cassini, Lilli Carati, and all the other heroines in this genre of film whose main task was not only to tease and undress, but to dance on the screen. Featuring unreleased soundtracks by Alessandro Alessandroni, Fabio Frizzi, Pulsar Music Ltd., Gianni Ferrio, Franco Micalizzi, Franco Campanino, Nico Fidenco, Giacomo Dell’Orso, and for the first time on vinyl, music by Enrico Simonetti, Walter Rizzati, and Detto Mariano. lettering: LUCA BARCELLONA artwork: FRANCESCO “FRANZ” LONGHI compiled and conceived by PIERPAOLO DE SANCTIS with ANDREA FABRIZII

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