song of the night

Taken from Living Is Hard: West African Music In Britain, 1927-1929. The label says of this totally stunning collection of recordings from Britain's West African underground of the late 1920s: "There is nothing whitened or sentimental about them, beseeching of pity, like minstrelsy and spirituals...These records are unhitched from the protocols of a white listenership."

mp3:
George Williams Aingo :: Akuko Nu Bonto

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Well this is a lame development: despite the beginnings of a microsite and a July 22 release date listed on Amazon, Burial says he may not do a DJ-Kicks mix afterall. Via a myspace blog post in response to a fake tracklisting that was floating around last week, Burial says:

"fake djkicks tracklist got put up somewhere...i got messages from people & producers who think its real. not sure im going to do djkicks...if i do it will be mostly old jungle tunes."

Nice going, dude who made up that fake (and obviously too good to be true) tracklisting.

UPDATE: Burial has since slightly edited the myspace blog post, read the new post after the jump...

"fake djkicks tracklist got put up somewhere i got messages from people & producers thinking it was real...if i do djkicks it will be mostly old jungle tunes & new tunes"