Manu Dibango dies of COVID-19

[Petey Pate]

https://apnews.com/b7aca5490656b064bba690eb19a5291e

Sad end to a legend of jazz, funk and African music. Soul Makossa has been imitated many times, and it's a classic.

https://youtu.be/mueq-sbXBrs

[Better Midlands]

Great catalogue of work and he moved with the times, very contemporary in the mid 80s like Herbie Hancock.

[magval]

Didn't know where that refrain originally came from. What a cool song. RIP cool jazz guy.

[NoSleep]

RIP Manu. Damn.

An old buddy of mine, UK rapper MC Mell'O', impressed me by making a record with Manu Dibango in the early 90's.

[buttgammon]

Fuck, Soul Makossa was (and still is) an absolute monster of a track.

[Petey Pate]

Great catalogue of work and he moved with the times, very contemporary in the mid 80s like Herbie Hancock.

Both Herbie and Manu collaborated with Bill Laswell in that period. I vastly prefer Electric Africa, on which Herbie plays synths and Laswell  produced, to the better known Rock It.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zK69LoCTYus

RIP Manu. Damn.

An old buddy of mine, UK rapper MC Mell'O', impressed me by making a record with Manu Dibango in the early 90's.

Had never heard this before, so here's one of the tracks if anyone else is curious.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lBWPNY5pU_Y

[Dewt]

Oh man, that sucks. He's been on my playlist these last six months.

[BlodwynPig]

Both Herbie and Manu collaborated with Bill Laswell in that period. I vastly prefer Electric Africa, on which Herbie plays synths and Laswell  produced, to the better known Rock It.

Didn't know that, will check it out

[NoSleep]

There's a whole bunch NY/African stuff with Herbie, Laswell and his DMX from around that time. The other large centre (outside of the African continent) for African productions at that time was Paris.

[All Surrogate]

I think it was on CaB Radio that I first heard Manu Dibango - Big Blow and fell in love with it. Beyond "big blow" and "c'est maman", I've no idea what the lyrics are, but I guess it doesn't matter. DUMELE!