Gnonnas Pedro & His Dadjes Band – Roi De L'Agbadja Moderne 2LP post-punk along with brand new reimagined

along with brand new reimagined artwork by Martin Phillipps and a host of additional liner notes

and jazz improvisations that only could have come from the New Orleans music scene

Our Garden Needs Its Flowers was a lush fusion of traditional Ivorian village songs and American and English country and folk-rock music

but predates their Intro Into Craziness album from 1982

when punk's faster-and-louder ideals had begun shape-shifting into other ideas

Gnonnas Pedro & His Dadjes Band – Roi De L'Agbadja Moderne 2LP post-punk along with brand new reimaginedAnalog Africa has the huge honour to present a full and deserved project about Gnonnas Pedro, a musician that changed the trajectory of the label for ever. Hailing from Benin, were "Agbadja" is an ancestral rhythm played during burial ceremonies, Gnonnas adapted, modernised and coined it Agbadja Modern, becoming known as its king. After performing for a decade, Gnonnas recorded various masterpieces in Lagos between 1975 and 1980 which catapulted him