Los Apartamentos - Mama Look A Boobo 7"
SKU: AB070
EXPECTED RELEASE DATE: March 2025
Description:
Los Apartamentos have been spreading Jamaican mento folklore in and around Cologne since 2016 - from private pool parties to international festivals. Now - five years after their debut album - the band is back with a new vinyl release: the 'Mama Look A Booboo' / 'Hold Em Joe' double sider.
But how do seven gentlemen from Germany warm to the nearly forgotten first original sound of the Caribbean island? The answer is: The musicians all have a past in ska music, reggae’s forerunner, and mento’s predecessor in Jamaica. They have been recording artists in various groups like The Braces, Monkey Shop, or Kapelle 3. And there must have been a general feeling of being stuck that caused them to dig deeper and deeper in the island’s musical traditions. A new angle would just be cool.
It started with Winston who is a double bass player building a rumba box from scratch in his backyard. This instrument builds the backbone of any mento band. At the same time, Ali traded his guitar for a banjo. And every other week more musical friends joined this purely acoustic venture, most of them on instruments they hadn’t played before. It felt liberating not to use microphones in rehearsals. A setlist was compiled by listening to those old one-microphone recordings from the 1950s in Jamaica, often only accessible via youtube or on rare compilations. Names like The Ticklers, Lord Fly, Count Lasher, and Lord Flea were praised, and their styles absorbed, as much as possible.
The city of Cologne offered the perfect hotbed for this band. Pubs are all around, acoustic live music is cherished not only during the world-famous Carnival season. At every time of the year audiences love to sing along if a chorus is as infectious as „Ooooh what a night, not a bite, What a Saturday night.“ („Linstead Market“).
Format & package: 7", pressed in random colours
Record label: Aggrobeat Records
Year of release: 2025
Tracks:
A. Mama look a Booboo
B. Hold 'em Joe (My Donkey Want Water)
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| Weight | 0,15 Kg |
