S.E. Rogie

Palm Wine Guitar Music (1988) ...

Sooliman E. Rogers was a Sierra Leonan composer and performer, and this album was a compilation of his 1960s recordings.  Released in 1988 on Cooking Vinyl label...

This style of pop was known as palm wine music or maringa... it evolved from local sailors using portuguese guitars to make their own version of calypso or soca songs in Sierra Leone and Liberia, and was an influence on soukous and highlife styles ...

Recorded 1960-1969 in Freetown, Sierra Leone and Monrovia, Liberia.


 
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