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01. BALLA ET SES BALLADINS - N'na Soba
02. BALLA ET SES BALLADINS - Bandian
03. BALLA ET SES BALLADINS - Touré
04. BALLA ET SES BALLADINS - Bélébélé
05. BALLA ET SES BALLADINS - J.R.D.A
06. BALLA ET SES BALLADINS - Yo Te Contres Maria
07. BALLA ET SES BALLADINS - Bedianamo
08. BALLA ET SES BALLADINS - Soumbouyaya
09. BALLA ET SES BALLADINS - Tara
10. BALLA ET SES BALLADINS - Limania
11. BALLA ET SES BALLADINS - Sara '70
12. BALLA ET SES BALLADINS - Moi Ca Ma Fout
13. BALLA ET SES BALLADINS - Sakhodougou
14. BALLA ET SES BALLADINS - Kaira
15. BALLA ET SES BALLADINS - Bi Diamana Moo
01. BALLA ET SES BALLADINS - Kognô Koura
02. BALLA ET SES BALLADINS - Manta Lokoka
03. BALLA ET SES BALLADINS - Yahadi Géré
04. BALLA ET SES BALLADINS - Keba Mirima
05. BALLA ET SES BALLADINS - Sankaran Ka
06. BALLA ET SES BALLADINS - Ka Noutea
07. BALLA ET SES BALLADINS - Ancien Combatant
08. BALLA ET SES BALLADINS - Nyo
09. BALLA ET SES BALLADINS - Wilikabo
10. BALLA ET SES BALLADINS - Fadakudu
11. BALLA ET SES BALLADINS - Lumumba
12. BALLA ET SES BALLADINS - Bambo
13. BALLA ET SES BALLADINS - Paulette
ARTIST
TITLE
The Syliphone Years
FORMAT
2CD BOX

LABEL
CATALOG #
STCD 3035-36CD STCD 3035-36CD
GENRE
RELEASE DATE
12/4/2012

2008 release. Syliphone was the national record company established in 1959 by the government of newly independent Guinea. Syliphone's premier ensemble was the Syli Orchestre National, which included many of the country's best modern instrumentalists -- among them trumpeter Balla Onivogui. In the mid '60s Balla and eight other musicians branched off from Syli Orchestre National to accept a long-term engagement at the classiest nightclub in Conakry, la Jardin de Guinée. This band, which included trombonist Pivi Moriba, guitarist Sékou 'Le Docteur' Diabaté and singers Manfila Soba Kanté and Émile 'Benny' Soumah, became known as Orchestre de la Jardin de Guinée but eventually took the name Balla et Ses Balladins. This album covers 1968 to 1980, when Balla et Ses Balladins were one of the three most popular bands in Guinea (the others being Bembeya Jazz and Keletigui et Ses Tambourinis). This album is a box enclosing two CDs and a 44-page full-color booklet. The CDs contain 28 tracks selected by Guinean music experts Paul Hayward and Graeme Counsel (many of them never released on CD until now), and the booklet is replete with period photos and record cover reproductions along with Counsel's authoritative notes in English and French.