Super Boiro Band World Africa Guinea Syliphone
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Editions Syliphone Conakry SLP 46 I bought this LP new back in the day. The disc is NM. The cover is in great shape also with no marks except my name written on the back.
"On 28 september 1958, Guinea chose independence, the only french colony to do so. Thus, Guinea became the first French African colony to gain independence, on October 2nd 1958.
The first state orchestra to form after the country’s independence was "Orchestre de la Garde Républicaine". Under the new government’s Authenticité policy, the group was “instructed to drop their Europe...an march tunes for music befitting the new nation”. The orchestra eventually split into two groups – “Orchestre de la Garde Républicaine 1” and “Orchestre de la Garde Républicaine 2” – whose only recorded output was a split album released in 1967.
“Orchestre de la Garde Républicaine 1” later changed their name to Super Boiro Band.
The band took their name from the Camp Boiro prison, where many of the members had been guards. Members of the band included trumpeter and manger Mamadou Niaissa, vocalist Sane Camara and guitarists Karan Mady Diawara and Mamady Kouyaté. Mamady Kouyaté would later go on to resurrect Bembeya Jazz in the 1990s, and recently he formed Mamady Kouyaté & The Ambassadors.
Super Boiro Band’s first album was released in 1972, and their first single was released the following year. They released two more singles as well as their second album in 1975, and one more album in 1976 as well as appearing on the compilations Discothèque 73, Discothèque 74 and Discothèque 75. The band later changed their name to Super Flambeau, but never released any recordings.
After the death of Sekou Toure and the end of the "revolution", the group stoped playing forever." - Facebook
