Francis The Great
Ravissante Baby
Rare funk and avant-garde soul from a seven-year-old kid singer featuring the best musicians of France and the
Cameroonian diaspora, recorded in Paris in 1977. The album contains two nicely dramatic tracks: "Ravissante Baby (Negro
Phasing)" is a long, hypnotic, funky soukous track with a tremendous lead guitar and a long spoken-word and soulful kid
vocal about the beauty of nature; "Look Up in the Sky (Negro Nature)" is a stretched funk groove with psych synth by
Michel Morose, bubbling bassline by the great Victor Edimo, the famous Toto Guillaume on guitar, and a brilliant poetic
lyric by Francis the Great, who at that time studied in Mnilmontant, Paris. Originally produced by his father, a great
impresario of African artists in Paris during the '70s, and coordinated by his mother, this album is unique, fresh, and
almost unclassifiable. It's universal funk! Hot Casa Records is proud to reissue this holy grail after years of
research. Includes interview; officially licensed with Francis Mbarga himself, in Yaound, Cameroon.
Price
Genre
Format
LP - 1 disk
Release
20-02-2015
Label
Item-nr
975386
EAN
3760179353037
Availability
Not in stock
Tracks
Title
Artist
1
RAVISSANTE BABY
2
LOOK UP IN THE SKY