It Has Been A While, Pigeon

 

Pigeon - Yagana [SNDW12044 UK 2021 24-Bit 176.4kHz FLAC]

If only all jam sessions were this good. It was to be a quiet Friday night in for me, however there is an Afrobeat part going on in my living room. I think I have only ever posted 5 or 6 African styled records in my blogging career, and some of those two or three times. This one first surfaced at the back-end of 2021 and was only available in choice record stores, it has now at last been given a wider release.

Pigeon are an Anglo-African conglomerate operating out of the Kentish port town of Margate, They are Guinean singer Falle Nioke, Graham Godfrey on drums, Steve Pringle on keyboards, Tom Dream on guitar and Josh Ludlow on bass.

Their Yagana EP was born out of a jam session, following a different kind of session in a Margate public house. These four tracks vary from infectious upbeat Afro-Funk to post-PiL grinding post-punk. This record is quite extraordinary, and not since Masimba Bele, some thirty-nine years ago, have the two hemispheres combined to produce such an addictive blend of styles. The closing War (Jam) introduces electronics into the mix to conclude the session with a hypnotic post-acid beat.

You need this, oh..and the sleeve is eye-catching too!

A1 Yagana

A2 Nothing Grows

B1 It's You

B2 War (Jam)