Malaku Daku – Love Drums From The Ghetto

Personally don’t find this album all that interesting, especially when you consider the gems like Cymande or Oneness of Juju that came out around this time, but combined African drumming with jazz, soul, and other global grooves.

An extraordinary album that traces a direct line of musical flight from the poorest enclaves of seventies New York across the ocean to the African motherland.
Funky as the proverbial mosquito's tweeter and despite an excellent 2019 reissue, the sole album by Malaku Daku still seems to be bubbling just under the radar, a state of affairs which is all the more curious given its broad cross-genre appeal to the many afro/funk/jazz/disco heads across the globe.
Especially as the opening track 'The Bump Bang U Bang' leaves you wondering if a young Arthur Russell came across the album in a New York City record store sometime in the mid-seventies only to channel it several years later into the timeless disco not disco classic that is the 1981 'Go Bang' track by Dinosaur L.