Consumer Guide Album

Kabaka International Guitar Band: Kabaka International Guitar Band [Palenque, 2022]
Four tracks lasting 38 minutes, this would appear to be a verbatim reissue of an album released in Nigeria in 1978. Beguilingly light and irrepressibly jumpy, vocals shouty and guitar delicate, it will serve as an upful introduction to the soukous-inflected highlife or vice versa showcased on the long-lost Oriental Brothers International collections Heavy on the Highlife! and Do Better if You Can that the great John Storm Roberts bequeathed us on his Original Music label. A-