Francis The Great – Ravissante Baby – LP

Rare funk & Avant- Garde soul from  a seven years old kid singer featuring the best of French and cameroonian musicians, recorded in Paris in 1977!

The album contains two nicely dramatic tracks: “Look Up in the sky” (Negro nature) is a stretched funk groove with psyche synth by Michel Morose, bubbling bassline by the great Victor Edimo , the famous Toto Guillaume on guitar , and a brilliant poetic song by Francis the great who at that time studied in Menilmontant (Paris).

“Ravissante  Baby” (Negro Phasing) is a long hypnotic funky soukous track with a tremendous lead guitar with a long spoken word and soulful kid vocal about the beauty of nature. Originally produced by his father, a great impresario of African artists in Paris during the 70‘s and coordinated by her mother, this album is unique, fresh and out of genre in a way! It’s universal Funk!

Hot Casa Records is proud to reissue this holy grail after years of research on a deluxe lp including interview and officially licensed with Francis Mbarga himself  in Yaounde (Cameroon).

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Listen Here: Francis The Great - Look Up In The Sky