The Vodoun Effect – Funk & Sato from Benin’s Obscure Labels 1972-1975

"Recording more than 50 albums and hundreds of 45s, Orchestre Poly-Rythmo were one of the most prolific bands of the 20th century. They were also one of the best. An innovative group that developed its own distinctive style of hard-driving funk but still found time to record in just about every style imaginable, from highlife, Afrobeat, and rumba to rock, jazz, soul, and folk. And yet, as of today, they don’t even have a Wikipedia page. That peers of Bembeya Jazz National, Orchestra Baobab, Rail Band, OK Jazz, Fela’s Africa 70, and every other great African band of the 1950s-70s has managed to remain this obscure and unheard is frankly baffling– and attributable more to the capricious nature of fame than any other single factor. The band’s geographic location probably didn’t help. ..."

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