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The Scorpios LET’S GO Afro7

“Everyone’s favourite Sudanese collective from London is back with another full album!”

“Contains the monster club hit Mashena!”

It’s been 5 years since the critically acclaimed debut album from the Scorpios was released on Afro7 records. Since that time the band has stayed busy actively playing around central Europe and in clubs around England.

In 2018 the band released the hit single Mashena earning them massive recognition with DJ’s around the globe, and gaining heavy radio play.

Scorpios aren’t just an instrumental band, one of the key elements in the group’s sound is the mesmerizing voice of Regia Ishag and the groups male voicing by Mohammed and Babo Osmand and Khamal Gourmborr.

LET’S GO was recorded at Abbey Road studios back in 2018, and the album also has two live recordings. Another new key member is Japanese keyboard legend Izumi Kobayashi joining the band pushing their signature sound even further, colouring tones fusing elements of traditional Sudanese music with dub and funk creating that unique groove that makes the Scorpios so great!

BUY THIS LP over at our brother store JAZZAGGRESSION Records, use this link. (preorder, ships by the end of February

Afro7LINK TO SONG SNIPPETS from Scorpios Let’s Go LP

Sportsman promotion single sung in ‘Swahili/English’

Happy new years, we’re back and it’s 2022, we promise to update the front page a little more often with new posts of vintage songs from the East African diaspora. Sportsman – a Cigarette brand from BAT (British American Tobacco company) which has been in the market for over 85 years and is sold in various Eastern Africa markets including Kenya, Uganda, and Somalia. So jack up a pack of Sportsman in the true sportsman fashion and you should be ready for any sports, and if lucky you can win a business worth 1000k Kenya shilling! This and many other singles are on this months monthly auctions at eBay, check ’em out here.

SportsmanA) SPORTSMAN ‘Sung in Swahili’
B) SPORTSMAN ‘Sung in English’

Them Mushrooms ‘A Little Love/Akumu Nyar Kisumu’ Polydor

Finally back with a blog post and it’s the release day of the special Them Mushrooms EP. Kenyan musical journalist Emmanuel Mwendwa has written a nice little article about the band, read it here. If you want to get your hands on our new twelve you can order direct from us, or you can check out what shops stock our releases in this interactive map. Here is the original single that has the cathcy ‘A Little Love’ and ‘Akumu Nyar Kisumu’song on the flip. As Emmanuel describes the lyrics Akumu Nyar Kisumu is a coyly crafted love song, a suitor’s lamentations about sleepless nights and desires to propose nuptials to the lakeside beauty…

PolydorA) Them Mushrooms ‘A Little Love’
B) Them Mushrooms ‘Akumu Nyar Kisumu’