[peel] More SL: The Kershaw Tapes

[MARK LUETCHFORD]

Thanks - good to see that he still plucks like a demon and that Colombia  and Spain still  pay the dues that are due. Interestingly maybe because of  the Rumba/Cuban/Spanish connection with the roots of  Soukous ? Its gone round full circle - eg slaves from Congo being transported to Cuba keeping African drumming rhythms alive and becoming Rumba when mixed with Spanish guitar rhythms and then going back to Zaire in the 50s and becoming Soukous and now back to Spain and Colombia ... 

Might have got that amateur musicology wrong ... where is Kershaw when you need him?


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 From: RobF <robfleay@...>
To: peel@yahoogroups.com 
Sent: Friday, 4 October 2013, 11:26
Subject: Re: [peel] More SL: The Kershaw Tapes
 


  
Still playing it seems - at least a couple of videos on Youtube of him at overseas festivals this summer

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uwzhMAqNKKk
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=57qyM9FlHVY






On 4 October 2013 10:47, MARK LUETCHFORD <M.Luetchford@...> wrote:


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>http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Diblo_Dibala
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>Ours is better although obviously better at crediting the source of some of wikipedia material -
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>http://peel.wikia.com/wiki/Diblo_Dibala
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>still  gives no clues about his current activity. maybe he's back washing dishes in Brussels?
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>PS Thank you to the good Dr.
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>PPS I went to see Kanda Bongo Man a couple of weeks ago in a small town called Rye in Sussex - as part of the Rye Festival. It was great to see him again and although his band wasn't as tight as it used to be. It was quite strange - his car broke down on teh way and he was 2 hours late so we had the Rye Ukulele band as a support act. He arrived on a AA van with a citroen people carrier on the back - with 4 members of band and instruments with not a hint of rancour that's waht I call dedication. I was 50 this year but was one of the youngest in the audience, it was in a church hall, but he got almost every body dancing (not me I am of the John Peel persuasion when it comes to not shaking my body!) and it must have been like the equivalent of when he first started out in Zaire - eg playing small community venues who did not know his music but were grabbed by the infectious sounds. The only difference being taht the majority of this audience would not
 have been familiar with Soukous. I presume he now lives in UK. It seems that he has survived a bit better than the Bhundu boys but the days of playing stadia are behind him although he did play Womad a couple of years ago. Does anyone know what happened to Diblo? I don't think he was in the band - the guitarist wasn't of his age or skill! It is very sad that the enthusiasm with which we greeted this music in the 80s and 90s has not treated all of the stars well ... but my fedora off to Kanda and really pleased that he is still touring so people can still discover and fall in love with his music all again.
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>Looks like we may be getting whole Kershaw shows from the SL tapes. In some senses this is more valuable (heresy - wash my mouth out!) than the Peel shows as the records he played were often even more obscure and may only exist in folk/world museum collections and those of people like Andy - although did he not have to sell it when he was down on his luck so maybe he doesn't even have them anymore? Wonder if he knows this is happening (or cares?!) and may want to have a digital version of some of his collection ...
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> From: Dr Mango <dr_mango2004@...>
>To: Peel <peel@yahoogroups.com> 
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>Subject: [peel] More SL: The Kershaw Tapes
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>Rounding off my rips from the last batch of SL tapes that I processed, here's the Andy Kershaw bits that were part of them. One complete show was contained on the tapes in that batch, but as a treat for Kershaw fans I've been able to get my hands on the relevant rips made by other people and thus put together complete shows:
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>5 January 1992
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>Complete show found on tapes L202 and L203 that were ripped by me.
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>12 January 1992
>Session: Chris Wood and Andy Cutting.
>The start and end of the show were previously ripped and shared by ML from tape L067. The mid section turned up on tape L214 which I ripped, so I put all the sections together. The show contains more details of how Dave Lee Travis bizarrely came to play a soukous track on his Sunday morning programme.
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>23 February 1992
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>Session: Remmy Ongala.
>A section from the second hour of the show had been previously ripped and shared by Stuart from tape L147. The remaining segments were ripped by me from L204 and L212 and assembed into a whole.
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>All track listings can be found on my personal webspace: http://drmango.net/kershaw.htm
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>Coming next should be the complete Kershaw show from 21 November 1992 as I have all the sections of that waiting for assembly too.
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