Various Artists: London Is The Place For Me 7: Calypso, Mento, Joropo, Steel & String BandVarious Artists: London Is The Place For Me 7: Calypso, Mento, Joropo, Steel & String BandVarious Artists: London Is The Place For Me 7: Calypso, Mento, Joropo, Steel & String BandVarious Artists: London Is The Place For Me 7: Calypso, Mento, Joropo, Steel & String Band

Various Artists: London Is The Place For Me 7: Calypso, Mento, Joropo, Steel & String Band

Stunning compilation documenting West Indian & West African music (life) in post war London - highly recommended

Still deeper forays into the musical landscape of the Windrush generation.
A dazzling range of calypso, mento, joropo, steelband, palm-wine and r’n'b. Expert revivals of stringband music, from way back, alongside proto-Afro-funk.
An uproarious selection of songs about the H-Bomb and modern phones, prostitution and Haile Selassie, mid-life crisis and the London Underground, racism and solidarity, the Highway Code and a 100% West Indian Royal Wedding.
For example some frantic British-Guianan joropo music-hall about Eatwell Brown from Clapham, who starts out biting off a piece of his mother-in-law’s face at a party, then devours everything in his path… a chunk of Brixton Prison, a Union Jack, a policeman’s uniform. Or Marie Bryant — collaborator of Lester Young and Duke Ellington — taking time off from skewering the South African PM Daniel Malan at her West End revue, to contribute some arch, swinging filth about uber-genitalia.
Superior sound, courtesy of Abbey Road, D&M and Pallas; lovely gatefold sleeve; full-size booklet, with full notes, and fabulous previously-unseen photographs, including a set from the family archive of Russ Henderson (who led the first, impromptu Notting Hill Carnival march, in 1966).
Superior sound, courtesy of Abbey Road, D&M and Pallas; lovely gatefold sleeve; full-size booklet, with full notes, and fabulous previously-unseen photographs, including a set from the family archive of Russ Henderson (who led the first, impromptu Notting Hill Carnival march, in 1966).

Various Artists: London Is The Place For Me 7: Calypso, Mento, Joropo, Steel & String Band

Various Artists: London Is The Place For Me 7 (Calypso, Palm-Wine, Mento, Joropo, Steel & String Band)

Stunning compilation documenting West Indian & West African music (life) in post war London - highly recommended

Lord Beginner: Sons and Daughters of Africa3:00AIFF € 1.75MP3 € 1.25
The Lion: Royal Wedding2:59AIFF € 1.25MP3 € 1.00
The Mighty Terror: Hydrogen Bomb3:10AIFF € 1.75MP3 € 1.25
Dai Dai Simba: Modern Telephone2:31AIFF € 1.25MP3 € 1.00
Willie Payne & The Starlite Tempos: Wa Sise2:40AIFF € 1.25MP3 € 1.00
The Mighty Terror: Emperor of Africa2:38AIFF € 1.25MP3 € 1.00
Louise Bennett: Bongo Man2:26AIFF € 1.25MP3 € 1.00
Marie Bryant: My Handy Man2:40AIFF € 1.25MP3 € 1.00
Nigerian Union Rhythm Group: Tortoise Mambo2:32AIFF € 1.25MP3 € 1.00
Calypso Rhythm Kings: Boule Vese2:19AIFF € 1.25MP3 € 1.00
The Mighty Terror: Life is Like a Puzzle2:51AIFF € 1.25MP3 € 1.00
The Mighty Terror: Chinese Children2:40AIFF € 1.25MP3 € 1.00
Bill Rogers: Hungry Man from Clapham2:18AIFF € 1.25MP3 € 1.00
Lili Verona: Underground Train3:11AIFF € 1.75MP3 € 1.25
The Lion: Highway Code3:10AIFF € 1.75MP3 € 1.25
Billy Sholanke: Kana Kana3:12AIFF € 1.75MP3 € 1.25
Calypso Rhythm Kings: L'année Passée3:16AIFF € 1.75MP3 € 1.25
Lord & Lady Beginner: One Morning3:08AIFF € 1.75MP3 € 1.25
West African Rhythm Brothers: D4. West African Rhythm Brothers, Ema Foju2:36AIFF € 1.25MP3 € 1.00
Trinidad Steel Band: Caroline2:11AIFF € 1.25MP3 € 1.00

Still deeper forays into the musical landscape of the Windrush generation.
A dazzling range of calypso, mento, joropo, steelband, palm-wine and r’n'b. Expert revivals of stringband music, from way back, alongside proto-Afro-funk.
An uproarious selection of songs about the H-Bomb and modern phones, prostitution and Haile Selassie, mid-life crisis and the London Underground, racism and solidarity, the Highway Code and a 100% West Indian Royal Wedding.
For example some frantic British-Guianan joropo music-hall about Eatwell Brown from Clapham, who starts out biting off a piece of his mother-in-law’s face at a party, then devours everything in his path… a chunk of Brixton Prison, a Union Jack, a policeman’s uniform. Or Marie Bryant — collaborator of Lester Young and Duke Ellington — taking time off from skewering the South African PM Daniel Malan at her West End revue, to contribute some arch, swinging filth about uber-genitalia.
Superior sound, courtesy of Abbey Road, D&M and Pallas; lovely gatefold sleeve; full-size booklet, with full notes, and fabulous previously-unseen photographs, including a set from the family archive of Russ Henderson (who led the first, impromptu Notting Hill Carnival march, in 1966).
Superior sound, courtesy of Abbey Road, D&M and Pallas; lovely gatefold sleeve; full-size booklet, with full notes, and fabulous previously-unseen photographs, including a set from the family archive of Russ Henderson (who led the first, impromptu Notting Hill Carnival march, in 1966).