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I've posted this song before here: • Video so this is a repost. In the old post are some snippets of an interview we had with Josky over 20 years ago. So if you want to hear those, please check out that post.
The version as I posted it four years ago, was the edit as it had been released on LP in 1977, but last week this single was posted on de dial africa blog dial-africa.blo... and that version sounds much better and has an extra verse in it.
Only problem with the dial africa post is that it's about 10% too fast, so I fixed that, edited the a- and the b-sides together and here it is.
The comment on my first posting of this song reads as follows:
This is the composition in which Josky found his style, defined his artistic identity within O.K. Jazz, grew up.
In Fariya, Josky used a rhythm that was inspired by an Angolan group called San Salvador. This rhythm would return in many variations in his compositions since.
We hear him sing with a newly found confidence, together with Youlou Mabiala, Ndombe Opetum and possibly Lukoki Diatho.
In the first part of the song, Franco plays the fills after every vocal line, then in the second part, the reeds play the fills during the chorusses and the copper during Josky's solos.
With Ntoya - batterie (mainly hi-hat), Dessoin - percussion, rhythm guitar - possibly Makosso (otherwise Gégé Mangaya), "solo guitar" - maybe Gerry Dialungana, bass - Mpudi Decca or Flavien Makabi. Horn arrangements: most likely Dele Pedro.
Comments by Josky recorded in 1991, Bxl.
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