
Tracklist
A1Be Free
A2Atakpa Dc9
A3When I Come In The Road
A4Brest Dc10
B1Yong Revolution
B2Carry Me Blak
B3Antiga
B4Ichango
C1A Were We Coco
C2Egbemi Black
C3Love Love
C4Start To Pray
D1Oluwa Loranmi Nichai
D2Toba Walemi
D3Chikri Man
D4My Dad Has Me To Kanm
Rhythm Revolution
Vinyl 2LP | 1971 / UK – Reissue | New
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Acid Jazz presents one of Afrobeat’s most mysterious and rare records by a former schoolteacher, boxer, Jacques Chirac's bodyguard, and Beninese musical visionary: Ferry Djimmy - Rhythm Revolution.
The album was originally recorded in the mid-1970s in support of Benin’s revolutionary leader Mathieu Kérékou. Rumour has it that less than two hundred copies survived a late-‘70s fire.
Ferry Djimmy’s life story is one of the most extraordinary you’re ever likely to hear. Born in 1939, Jean Maurille Ogoudjobi (the nickname Ferry comes from ‘ferry djimmy’ being short for ‘please forgive me’ in Yoruba as he was a very smart but unruly kid), Ferry had 43 siblings. By the late 1950s, he started a career as a schoolteacher. As a tall and imposing young man, Ferry also started a parallel career as a boxer. When he wasn’t teaching or fighting, he also caught up with the emerging night scene in the city of Cotonou, where local folklore, Congolese rumba, highlife and Cuban adaptations were favoured by local audiences as well as some blues, jazz and rhythm’n’blues.
The album was originally recorded in the mid-1970s in support of Benin’s revolutionary leader Mathieu Kérékou. Rumour has it that less than two hundred copies survived a late-‘70s fire.
Ferry Djimmy’s life story is one of the most extraordinary you’re ever likely to hear. Born in 1939, Jean Maurille Ogoudjobi (the nickname Ferry comes from ‘ferry djimmy’ being short for ‘please forgive me’ in Yoruba as he was a very smart but unruly kid), Ferry had 43 siblings. By the late 1950s, he started a career as a schoolteacher. As a tall and imposing young man, Ferry also started a parallel career as a boxer. When he wasn’t teaching or fighting, he also caught up with the emerging night scene in the city of Cotonou, where local folklore, Congolese rumba, highlife and Cuban adaptations were favoured by local audiences as well as some blues, jazz and rhythm’n’blues.
Item Details
Item No: | 918498 |
Artist: | Ferry DJimmy |
Titel: | Rhythm Revolution |
Label: | Acid Jazz |
Katalog-Nr: | AJX2LP633 |
Format: | Vinyl 2LP, Vinyl, LP |
Pressing: | UK – Reissue |
Release Date: | 1971 |
Genre: | Organic Grooves |
Style: | Afrobeat |
Available since: | 30.06.2022 |
Condition: | New |
Price: | 32,99 € |
Weight: | 500g (plus 250g Packaging) |