Category: Video

Santo & Johnny – Sleep Walk {1959}

Sleep Walk by Santo & Johnny is an universal message. There’s no need for words. Is it kitschy, sentimental or just beautiful? You decide. It’s not easy to believe in anything without a doubt. I personally...

Vytas Brenner – Araguaney {1973}

Soul Jazz Records just released the incredible compilation Venezuela 70 – Cosmic Visions Of A Latin American Earth: Venezuelan Experimental Rock In The 1970s. The track I picked is by Vytas Brenner. Born in Tübingen, Germany, he migrated to Venezuela...

Magdy El Hossainy – Music de Carnaval {1972}

Magdy El Hossainy ‘Music de Carnaval’ by pépite This is an extra to the article I posted today about Abdel Halim Hafez. Magdy El Hossainy was the keyboard player in Hafez’s Al Massiyah Orchestra, see...

Abdel Halim Hafez in 1971

Abdel Halim Hafez – Mawood {1971}

I haven’t been so touched by music for a long time. It is really strange how secluded the popularity of certain music sometimes is, how come I’ve never heard of Abdel Halim Hafez before? Just imagine: when...

Mounir Mourad – The Factory Theme {1975}

To be fair, I don’t know much about this great up-beat track from Egypt and I rely on information from the amazing Radio Diffusion blog. Mounir Mourad‘s track appears on the soundtrack of the Egyptian movie...

Junior Parker – Tomorrow never knows {1970}

The Chemical Brothers started their shows with this cover version of the Beatles’ Tomorrow never knows on their 2012 Don’t think tour. Junior Parker was an American Blues and Soul singer, harmonica player and songwriter from Clarksdale, Mississippi. He...

Niagara – Sangandongo {1971}

The project Niagara was initiated by Klaus Weiss, a internationally admired German Jazz drummer. I know his work from the track Survivor from his classic Library Disco/Funk album Time Singals from 1978. For Niagara, he gathered...

Verckys et l´Orchestre Vévé – Oui Verckys {1970}

Congolese Funk, Afrobeat & Psychedelic Rumba 1969-1978 by Verckys et l´Orchestre Vévé There are strange coincidences in life sometimes. Yesterday I discovered another great release by the incredible German label Analog Africa. They released...