Catalogue       Group                                          A side/B side                                        Language                        Year

Number

SWAGGA      The Smyekhersons              Msintese/Viongozi Wa Africa          Swahili                      1975

7-002

This record appeared on Ebay in March 2009 and has me scratching my head. The Smyekhersons cut a record for CMS that I always thought dated from the 1960s yet here they are with a record released in 1975 on a label that features an identical map of Africa to those records released on the Africa label. Without having heard any of their music, I wonder are they an occasional band or regulars on the tourist circuit - and where and how did they dream up a band name that suggests a bunch of uptight Calvinists?