Cameroon Garage Funk: 1964-1979 (Vinyl)

Cameroon Garage Funk: 1964-1979 (Vinyl)Yaound, in the 1970s, was a buzzing place. Every neighbourhood of Cameroons capital, no matter how dodgy, was filled with music spots but surprisingly there were no infrastructure to immortalise those musical riches. But luckily an alternative option emerged in form of an adventist church with some good recording equipment and many of the artists on this compilation recorded their first few songs, secretly, in these premises thanks to Monsieur Awono,

Hearts and Minds is an overwhelming emotional experience and the most important nonfiction film ever made about this devastating period in history

and Heaven’s Gate

featuring director Robert Bresson on the set of Mouchette

where the seeds of his own self-destruction are quickly planted

and composers Claudio Simonetti and Simon Boswell

The artistic energy unleashed at Papunya spread through Central Australia to achieve international acclaim

Raised in the Midwest

Yves Saint Laurent would soon become one of the most successful and influential haute couture houses in Paris

while nearly 250 records that marked particular turning points for a band

Essays based on new research explore connections between the Cubists and the trompe l’oeil specialists of earlier centuries and their games of creative one-upmanship

including a richly textured tribute to Vincent van Gogh (who is played by Martin Scorsese)

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