Rare Funk Lafayette Afro Rock Band Soul Makossa ORIG

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Because I live in The Netherlands I will not be able to ship internationally for 4 USD or less. Ebay will not let me enter the correct rate into their system. Please do not bid if you don't agree with the shipping rates listed below!

Lafayette Afro Rock Band - Soul Makossa  (Musidisc 30 CV 1269, France, 1974)

Musicians (bio taken from AMG): 

Though little known in their native U.S., the Parisian-based Lafayette Afro Rock Band was among the premier funk outfits of the 1970s, later becoming a seemingly endless source of samples and breaks for artists from Public Enemy to Janet Jackson. The group was formed on Long Island, NY as the Bobby Boyd Congress; deciding America was already overloaded with funk acts, in 1971 they relocated to France, but when frontman Bobby Boyd returned stateside the remaining members -- guitarist Larry Jones, bassist Lafayette Hudson, keyboardist Frank Abel, horn players Ronnie James Buttacavoli and Arthur Young, drummer Ernest "Donny" Donable and percussionists Keno Speller and Arthur Young -- renamed themselves Ice and became the house session band at producer Pierre Jaubert's Parisound studio. Regularly performing live in Paris' Barbesse district -- an area made up primarily of African immigrants -- Ice's driving funk became increasingly influenced by African rhythms and textures, and in the wake of their 1973 debut LP Each Man Makes His Own Destiny, Jaubert changed the group's name to the Lafayette Afro Rock Band.

Guitarist Michael McEwan replaced Jones in time to record 1974's Soul Makossa (issued in the U.S. as Movin' & Groovin'), highlighted by the oft-covered and much-sampled "Hihache"; the follow-up, Malik, featured the cut "Darkest Night," its desolate saxophone intro later sampled for use by Public Enemy for the It Takes a Nation of Millions to Hold Us Back track "Show 'Em Whatcha Got" in addition to providing the foundation for Wreckx 'N' Effect's "Rump Shaker" and Tuff Crew's "Nut." Also in 1975, the Lafayette Afro Rock Band backed jazz pianist Mal Waldron on his unreleased Candy Girl album; the year following, they collaborated with expatriate bluesman Sunnyland Slim on his album Depression Blues. With 1976's Frisco Disco, the group reverted to the Ice moniker; concurrently, working under the alias Captain Dax, they scored a novelty hit in Japan with the single "Dr. Beezar, Soul Frankenstein." Afro Agban followed in 1978, while as Crispy and Co., the band resurfaced that same year with Funky Flavored before returning to America and disbanding.

Side A:  Soul Makossa, Azeta, Oglenon.

Side B:  Voodounon, Hihache, Nicky.

Condition of the vinyl (play graded):  EX

Condition of the cover:  VG++  (slight wear, small name written top left back cover)

The Dutch post office (TNT) have new rates for their services which unfortunately are very pricey for customers outside of Europe. Instead of the separate rate TNT used to have for packages weighing up to 500 grams (= 1 record) they now have only one rate for all packages weighing up to 2 kilograms (= about 4 records). This would mean that I would have to charge 24 USD for shipping 1 record outside of Europe! 

Therefore I have decided that I will pay 25% of the shipping costs myself for customers outside of Europe who only want to buy 1 record. So shipping outside of Europe for 1 LP will cost 18 USD.

If you're in Europe please check in which region (EUR 1, EUR 2 or EUR 3) your country is!!!  (See list below)

Prices for insured shipping are available on request. To some countries Track & Trace is available, please ask.

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AMERICAN customers beware: because of new safety regulations in the USA all packages weighing more than 500 grams are now shipped by BOAT instead of by plane. Obviously this will take a bit longer.

Shipping costs Europe for 1 up to 4 LP's:

EUR 1:   12 USD (standard priority) or 20 USD (registered priority).

EUR 2:   13.50 USD (standard priority) or 28 USD (registered priority).

EUR 3:   14.50 USD (standard priority) or 29 USD (registered priority).

Due to problems in the past with shipments to FRANCE and ITALY I will only ship REGISTERED items to those countries!!!

Euro zones:

EUR 1:  Belgium, Denmark (excluding the Faroe Islands and Greenland), Germany, France (including Corsica and Monaco), Italy (excluding San Marino and Vatican City), Luxembourg, Austria, Spain (including the Balearic Islands but excluding the Canary Islands), United Kingdom (excluding Gibraltar and Channel Islands), Sweden.

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SHIPPING COSTS FOR REST OF THE WORLD:

Rest of the World 1 LP:   18 USD (standard priority) or 27 USD (registered priority).

Rest of the World 1 up to 4 LP's:   24 USD (standard priority) or 36 USD (registered priority).

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