{"product_id":"various-artists-bulayo-guitar-songs-from-tanzania-kenya-zambia-dr-congo","title":"Various Artists - Bulayo: Guitar Songs From Tanzania, Kenya, Zambia, \u0026 Dr Congo","description":"\u003cp\u003eAfrican acoustic guitar masterpieces, expanding on Mississippi’s beloved “African Guitar Box.”\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIn 1979 and 1980, a young British-Kenyan musician named John Low hit the road to learn finger-style guitar from his heroes.\u003cbr\u003eHe traveled across Kenya, Tanzania, Congo, and Zambia, visiting, and sometimes staying in the homes of, stars like Jean-Bosco Mwenda, Losta Abelo, and Emmanuel Mulemena.\u003cbr\u003eHe also documented brilliant but previously under-recorded artists like Tanzania’s Francis Kitime and Kenya’s Mtonga Wanganangu.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eRegardless of status, John approached each artist humbly, as a student.\u003cbr\u003eHe recorded in homes, village squares, and watering holes.\u003cbr\u003eThe sessions are intimate and casual, the artists at ease.\u003cbr\u003eJohn’s tape deck picked up some of the continent’s greatest artists along with the sounds of laughter, children playing, and glasses clinking.\u003cbr\u003eFive decades on, these tapes offer a rare glimpse into how fingerstyle guitar was actually heard, outside the tense confines of commercial studios.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eSome of these songs appeared on John Storm Roberts’ out-of print Original Music compilations, (huge inspirations to Mississippi).\u003cbr\u003eOthers have never been made publicly available.\u003cbr\u003eAll have been expertly restored and remastered from the original tapes by Andrew Walter (Honest Jon’s, Abbey Road).\u003cbr\u003eJohn Low provides notes and lyrics, and Tanzanian music scholar John Kitime gives the musicians’ perspective.\u003cbr\u003eLicensed from John Low and the artists, pressed on high quality vinyl at Chicago’s Smashed Plastic.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"MISSISSIPPI RECORDS","offers":[{"title":"Standard Black Vinyl","offer_id":53497050792263,"sku":"TRI-71646","price":30.99,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0931\/9779\/5655\/files\/9e5d79d0e797d2a75c9383fba3bed790.jpg?v=1773243097","url":"https:\/\/towerrecords.ie\/products\/various-artists-bulayo-guitar-songs-from-tanzania-kenya-zambia-dr-congo","provider":"Tower Records Dublin Ireland","version":"1.0","type":"link"}