
Editions Ntimbo
Nguashi N’Timbo was band leader of Festival du Zaire and the composer of Shauri Yako, which gave Orch Super Mazembe a massive hit when they covered it and is one of the great songs of Africa. In addition, he was also a producer for Festival du Zaire and other bands such as Top Forum and Sentima. These singles are part of recordings that he licensed to Melodica.Press to see what we have in stock

Editions Omaco
Label for a Popular Congolese band operating in East Africa, who also recorded for Ken-Tanza, Sindimba, Stereo. Thanks to Doug Paterson and Peter Toll for details of these singles. Doug provided the label scan and I’ve taken the liberty of including a blowup of the crest on it. The band, originally from Lubumbashi, came to Tanzania on tour in the 1970s and decided to stay on in Dar Es Salaam. Enterprisingly, they set themselves up as a cooperative, OMACO, that owned the White House Club in Ubungu and bought a farm outside the city that sold its produce in the Kariakoo market.Press to see what we have in stock

Editions Zigo
Distributed by Melodica, this label seems to have been either a sister label or a successor to Editions Biby. It was evidently run by Coco Zigo Mike, a Congolese singer who was originally in Orch Shama Shama, then worked in Kenya with Orch Viva Makale, Orch Kombe Kombe and later in the 1980s with Orch Moja One and Orch Virunga.Press to see what we have in stock

Equator Records
In the late 1950s English expat Charles Worrod bought the assets of East African Records and by 1960 had launched Equator Sound Studio and with it the label. Its roster included many legendary figures of Kenyan music including Fadhili William, Daudi Kabaka, Peter Tsotsi and Nashil Pichen, as well as top Ugandan singers Fred Masagazi and Charles and Frida Sonko. The label folded in 1974 when Worrod left the country as a result of laws that barred him from running a business unless he became a Kenyan citizen.Press to see what we have in stock

International de Nelly
International de Nelly were a Luo benga band led by Ochieng Nelly after he left Victoria Kings and he appears in the writing credits on these singles as Dr NO Mengo. AIT distributed the label,with copyright given to EIT, the label’s publishing wing.Press to see what we have in stock

J. Sila Super Sound
Doug Paterson’s sleevenotes to the CD compilation, Best of Kakai Kilonzo & Les Kilimambogo Brothers Vol II (Shava) describes Joseph Sila, vocals and guitar, as one of the core members of the band in 1978. Soon after this time, though, he and Joseph Mwania, vocals and bass, split from band leader Kakai Kilonzo to form their own band, Original Kilimambogo.Press to see what we have in stock
very good soothing music. good rhythm and bass guitar.
Very good nostalgic music of olden times. RIP Monyoncho bwa Araka.
sorry fixed now!
why is the "buy" link dead? frustrating!
is the faduma kassim out of print? the buy the single link is dead...