child, I imagined Kenya as a huge reserve, an unknown land acquired primarily to hunters and ivory traders from squandering the riches of the wilderness, fantastic territory which I learned to love the natural splendor in the encyclopedia Wildlife (Ed. Grange Batelière ). The brutality of living there spread out, full page, large pictures where we saw lions and lionesses devouring zebras or gazelles, perfect metaphor - I only knew later - a country, and a whole continent, Africa, ruthlessly butchered by a predator more fierce than even the fiercest of them. Today things are different. I grew and matured, acquired a know a little bit different and make me another picture of Kenya. Which, obviously, goes, also, for music. 
How I discovered Fundi Konde and these 17 tracks compiled by RetroAfric , whose label seriously - only real guarantee of fun - commits the quality? Thanks to Louis Skorecki again, inexhaustible reservoir of musical, which chronicles Disc - published in World, a magazine now defunct - I had packed. "Packaged, it weighed! "As they say. And all things considered, this is a wonderful disc that can be recognized - whatever one may think - just one source of popular music in Africa today. This is not nothing. Known as the first musician from East Africa to have grabbed an electric guitar, Fundi Konde is remembered for having composed in 1956 Malaika , it registers with one of the most popular Kenyan performers of the era, Fadhili William. This tube will be true again later by many African musicians without the paternity of her title is still recognized.
Fadhili William (left) and Fundi Konde
ballads, lullabies - imagine, lullabies! Who writes? - Pulsating calypso and rumba hypnotics comprise the bulk of this Retrospective (1947-1956) or seventeen historical rarities recorded the first time in 1946 in Calcutta, India on label Dum Dum . Until you can listen to this stuff, nothing will be quite rotten in the field of recorded music! Cognac-Jay here at the studios ... you
- Jambo Sigara (Fundi Konde - Retrospective Vol. 1 (1947-1956) - RetroAfric - 1994)
- Kipenzi Waniua-Ua (ditto )
- Kipenzi Tuka Wawili (ditto )
Blind Test 7 September: No Dad has not wanted - Mireille 1929-1935 - Chansophone
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