AKALE WUBE AND MANU DIBANGO – Anbessa – LP – Glitter Gold Vinyl

LP – Limited Edition Standard Weight Glitter Gold Coloured Vinyl

On December 2013, during Alain Pilot‘s show La Bande Passante and as part of the celebrations for Manu Dibangos 80th birthday, Radio France Internationale gathered around the African master a bunch of prestigious guests including the Ethio- Jazz ambassadors : Akal Wub.

The band decided to play live and on air African Pop Session and Ekedi – both written and recorded by the Cameroonian saxophonist in the early seventies – quickly joined by Manu Dibango and his saxophone. Two live recordings of this session will be taken out this pathbreaking and improvised meeting.

A great complicity shortly settled between them and, a few months later, Akal Wub invited Manu Dibango on their track Anbessa (The Lion in Amharic) composed as a tribute to him. This collaboration led them to share several stages together in the following years.

With this RFI session still in mind, Manu Dibango invited the band to join him in studio for Akal Wub to arrange and re-record 5 other unknown nuggets from his catalogue : La Colre des Dieux, Du Bush a Bush, Gentlemen de Camp Yabassi, Otetena Munja and Peaceful Homeland.

Unfortunately, The Lion wont make it to the Parisian bands studio to record his last solos, fate decided otherwise… Akal Wub decides to pay a strong and sincere tribute to this friendship through out the album Anbessa – gathering the entire tracks written for or by Manu Dibango and played by the band – in a special LP.

*Vinyl images displayed are for mock-up/tracklist purposes only. Actual vinyl colour/shade (and or barcodes/pressing details pictured) may differ on arrival.

Tracklist:

SIDE A
A1. Akal Wub & Manu Dibango – “Ekedi”
A2. Akal Wub – “Gentlemen De Camp Yabass”
A3. Akal Wub&Manu Dibango – “Anbessa”
A4. Akal Wub – “Otetena Munja”
A5. Akal Wub – “Du Bush A Bush”

SIDE B
B1. Akal Wub&Manu Dibango – African Pop Session
B2. Akal Wub – La Colre Des Dieux
B3. Akal Wub – Tinchel
B4. Akal Wub – Peaceful Homeland