Freshly remastered from all-analog sources, the 1964 LP is pressed on 180-gram vinyl and housed in a tip-on jacket, replicating the album's original designs.
A glorious return to the iconic grooves of an era indelibly marked by Benny Moré and Perez Prado in New York bands and Cuba's orquestas gigantes of the mid-twentieth century.
"The king of modern Agbadja has mastered the art of blending ancestral Voodoo beats from his homeland Benin with Cuban rhythms, creating a fusion so seamless, at times, they're impossible to tell apart!" - Samy Ben Redjeb
A varied album encompassing a variety of Afro-Cuban genres and rhythms entwined with flashes of mind-bending cosmic influence. It is a further jewel in Cuba's musical crown of riches, with plenty of dancefloor treats and downtempo numbers held within.
Afrique Victime reinvents contemporary Saharan and 'rock music' by melding guitar pyrotechnics, full-blast noise, and field recordings with poetic meditations on love, religion, women's rights inequality, and exploitation in Western Africa.