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- Artist(s): Roger Coffi, Paul Alapini, Marcelin Kpohonon, Christian Agueh
- Summary: This is a remastered collection of West African soul music from El Rego originally released in the 1960s-1970s.
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- Record Label: Daptone
- Genre(s): R&B, International
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Jan 12, 2012El Rego is solid gold all the way through.
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Nov 22, 2011[It] works both as a general career summary and a standalone album, identifying another vital, exciting voice from a continent whose musical significance is still being discovered.
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Nov 22, 2011A wildly inspired blend of tribal rhythms, wah-wah guitar, fatback bass lines, and the heated unnnhs and yeeowws that typify James Brown funk.
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Nov 22, 2011There's a just-right roughness to the recording that has worked for bands as diverse as The Commandos and The Trashmen.
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Nov 22, 2011The constant is El Rego's singing, by turns rough or suave, often echoed in call and response by Ses Commandos, his steadfast band.
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MojoJan 31, 2012It fits easily alongside Daptone's funky analogue repertoire. [Feb 2012, p.110]
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Jan 25, 2012He and his group put everything they could into every track--or at least the every one collected here.
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