Filed under: Ecuador
♬ Insesita
Polibio Mayorga is an accordionist, organist, poet and composer born in 1944 in the city of Ambato, Ecuador. A pioneer of the Moog synthesizer in Tropical music – most of which was credited under the pseudonym – Junior Y Su Equipo. He was also the former director and producer at the label Fadisa.
I’ve been wanting to post a record by Junior Y Su Equipo for a while, but as far as I know just about all of the music that Polibio Mayorga released under that moniker has been reissued. A handful of his best tunes were also included on Analog Africa’s “Saturno 2000 – La Rebajada de Los Sonideros 1962 – 1983”.
Surprisingly, there is no Wikipedia page for Polibio Mayorga, but he does have facebook and Instagram and is apparently still active as of this posting.
Catalog number 700030 on Melpro of Quito, Ecuador. Released 1979.
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UPDATE: 06/13/23 Analog Africa has released a compilation of Polibio Mayorga’s recordings entitled “Ecuatoriana – El Universo Paralelo de Polibio Mayorga 1969-1981“.
Filed under: Egypt
The Jets / الچيتس were founded in Cairo by musician, composer and arranger Samir Habib / سمير حبيب in 1975.
The best source of information that I have been able to find is a biography on the band that you can find over at ƮᏲҾ дևծιστøρία. You can also find their discography over at Arab Tunes.
Catalog number SP 210 on Super Cassettes of Egypt, released 1978.
Filed under: Indonesia
♬ Oh Dara
Favourite’s Group was formed by Aloysius Riyanto with his band mates from Band 4 Nada and singer Mus Mulyadi in 1973. Soon after, the rest of the members of Band 4 Nada decided to leave to continue on under that name. Riyanto then enlisted his two cousins, Is Haryanto on drums and Harry Santoso (AKA Harry Toos) on guitar, and a friend of his, Tommy WS on bass, to complete the band’s new line up.
Although the principal musicians of the band have passed away – Aloysius Riyanto in 1995, Is Haryanto in 2009 and Tommy WS in 2013 – Mus Mulyadi still occasionally performs as Favorite’s Group.
Catalog number RLL-403 on Remaco Records of Indonesia. Released 1975.
Filed under: Uganda
Charles Ssonko – better known as Charles Sonko – was from Uganda. He began his musical career in the 1950s. In the 1970s, he fled to Kenya after Idi Amin overthrew the Ugandan government. He remained active throughout the 1980s. His sister, Freda Ssonko, was also a recording artist.
Catalog number EU 7-117 CW 532 on Equator Records of Nairobi, Kenya. No release date listed.
Filed under: Iran
♬ If You Help Me / اگه یارم بشی
Afshin Moghaddam (Hossein Ahanian Moghaddam) was born in Tehran, Iran in 1945. He was best known for his song “Zemestoun“, which which is considered one of the “100 Greatest Iranian Songs of All-Time”. Moghaddam was killed in a car accident whilst traveling to Amol in 1976.
Surprisingly, this song was not included on either the “Raks Raks Raks” or the “Persian Underground” compilations.
Released on 6 & 8 Records of Iran. No catalog number or release date listed.
Filed under: Vietnam
Nguyễn Thị Lệ Mai – better known by her stage name Khánh Ly – was born in Hanoi, Vietnam – then known as French Indochina – on March 6th, 1945.
At the age of 12, she moved to Saigon with her mother. That year, she competed in a children’s singer selection contest organized by Radio France Asia. For the next seven years, she sang in tea rooms. Beginning in 1967, she recorded numerous songs for Song Nhac and Continental as well as other record labels. In 1970 , receiving an invitation from NHK television station, Khánh Ly went to perform in Japan where she also recorded songs in Japanese.
In 1975, Khánh Ly left Vietnam and settled in Cerritos, California. As of this posting, she is still active. Her most recent release was 2020 on her own label Khánh Ly Productions.
No catalog number or release date listed. Released on Songnhạc of Lawndale, California. This cassette was originally issued in Vietnam on the Băng Nhạc Trịnh Công Sơn label in 1972.
Filed under: Brazil
This single was a one off by the duo of Ronaldo “Ro” Tapajós and Carlos “Carlinhos” Alberto De Souza, and was produced by Hélcio Milito – who was featured on “The Post with No Name“. Probably one of the more obscure Tropicália releases. Surprised this was included on the Brazilian Guitar Fuzz Bananas compilation.
Catalog number 33563 on CBS of Brazil, released 1968.
Filed under: Algeria
♬ Si Moh’
I reached out to my Algerian sources and neither one of them could find anything on this record.
If you have any further information about this artist or anything else about this recording, please leave it in the comment section below.
Catalog number KO 77.1010 on Le Kiosque d’Orphée of Paris, France. Released 1977.
Filed under: Eritrea
This one is a mystery.
I have not been able to find any other information about Ibrahim Mahmoud / ኢብራሂም ማሕሙድ nor the arranger Ghermaine Solomon / ገርማዬ ሰሎሞን. The record label – Tesfa Records – released only one other single by Munaie Menberu / በሙናዬ መንበሩ who was, to the best of my knowledge, Ethiopian. Neither record lists an address where the label was based, just that they were pressed in Greece.
But, if I had to guess just by listening to the music on this record, I would say it sounds like it was from Eritrea.
If you have any further information about this artist, the label or anything else about this recording, please leave it in the comment section below.
Catalog number TG 101 on Tesfa Records. No other information available..
Filed under: Cambodia
Pen Ram / ប៉ែន-រ៉ម – not her more well known sister Pen Ran (also seen as Pan Ron) / ប៉ែន រ៉ន as originally posted – was born in Battambang, Cambodia. Little is known of her personal history. Like many Cambodian musicians of the time, Pen Ran disappeared during the Khmer Rouge genocide.
Im Songserm (also seen Im Song Seum) / អ៊ឹម សុងសឺម was born in 1943 in Kampong Preah, Cambodia. He was discovered by Mey Thirith / ម៉ី-ធីរិទ្ធិ, an employee of the Ministry of Information and a recording artist in his own right, while still in secondary school. Im Song Seum died on March 16th of 1972 at the age of 29 reportedly of stomach cancer. He never saw the devastation of the Pol Pot years that followed a few years later.
If you would like to find out more about Cambodian Rock and Roll, you should check out John Pirozzi‘s film “Don’t Think I’ve Forgotten: Cambodia’s Lost Rock and Roll” or previous Cambodian posts.
Many thanks to Nate Hun of the Cambodian Vintage Music Archive for catching error in the original post. He has also sent the sheet music and lyrics for the song above.
Catalog number ERP2 on Heng Heng Records Co. of France. A previous owner wrote the date 09/03/81 on the inside of the sleeve. Apparently, Heng Heng repressed many Khmer records for the Cambodian diaspora. This original single was released on Olympic around 1971.
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