Calypso Madame ! - West Indian female singers 1954-68

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Team Oktopus Another perfect record from an impressive label. Standing ovation for this one Favorite track: Calypso Mama - Ask me why I run.

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1.	Josephine Premice - Rookoombey 01:56	buy track
2.	Eloise Trio - Coconut woman 02:02	buy track
3.	Maya Angelou - Peas and rice 02:31	buy track
4.	Calypso Rose - You must get a man 03:45	buy track
5.	Calypso Mama - Run Joe 02:13	buy track
6.	Louise Bennett - Day dah light 01:24	buy track
7.	Miriam Makeba - Love tastes like strawberries 03:25	buy track
8.	Miriam Makeba - I can't cross over 03:23	buy track
9.	Josephine Premice - Song of the jumbies 03:04	buy track
10.	Calypso Mama - Ask me why I run 02:15	buy track
11.	Eloise Trio - Digby 02:23	buy track
12.	Maya Angelou - Neighbor neighbor 02:10	buy track
13.	Calypso Rose - The bicycle 02:25	buy track
14.	Louise Bennett - Dry weather houses 02:34	buy track

about

(english version below)
Tom Stakhanov Souvenirs
1963, Nassau, Bahamas.
Le célèbre hornythologue Tom Stakhanov, en déplacement dans les caraïbes dans le cadre de ses observations d'oiseaux, notamment de poulettes, tombe amoureux du calypso et plus précisément de ses chanteuses. Il commence doucement à accumuler des disques de musiques caribéennes, ce qui lui permettra de se remémorer le climat
tropical lorsqu'il devra rentrer à Paris.
Revenu de son voyage, le patron d'un fameux bar tiki de la capitale française, Cedrico dit « le manager », lui fait rencontrer les non moins fameux The Loire Valley Calypsos, orchestre nourrissant une passion commune pour la musique exotique. Après quelques soirées arrosées de « chartreuse » ou de « crémant », ils sympathisent et ensemble, se convainquent qu'il est nécessaire de replacer dignement la chanteuse
sur la carte du calypso. « Make calypso female singers great again ».
Ainsi naîtra « Calypso Madame ! », la première compilation de chanteuses de calypso.

1963, Nassau, Bahamas
The well-known Hornythologist Tom Stakhanov, traveling in the West Indies for bird watching, including chicks, fall in love with calypso music and, to be more specific, with the female singers. He starts to dig for caribbean music records to remember the tropical mood when he will have to come back to Paris.
Back home, a night in a famous tiki bar in the french capital, Cedrico AKA « The Manager » introduces him to the no less famous The Loire Valley Calypsos, a band very enthusiatic about exotic music. After drinking « chartreuse » and « crémant », becoming friends, they convice themselves that it is highly important to make calypso female singers great again.
This was born « Calypso Madame ».

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released December 9, 2017

Compiled by Tom Stakhanov and MaAuLa Records // Mastered by Thibaut Kret // Art Work by Antoine Gadiou // Special thanks to Caribbean Music Group to let us use the two Calypso Rose's songs.