Ayub Ogada "En Mana Kuoyo" (1992)

En Mana Kuoyo
release date: 1992
format: digital
[album rate: 3 / 5]
producer: Ayub Ogada, Richard Evans
label: Real World Records - nationality: Kenya

Studio album debut by, now England-based, Ayub Ogada is a quiet Lou folk, or African / Kenyan folk album with music of his Lou tribe. This is not Westernized African pop music but a subtle release with compositions in a fine traditional style. Ogada are credited as writer of most of the tracks. At first, the 10 tracks may sound almost similar, but one may realise that they are not.
The album is released on the Peter Gabriel-founded label Real World, which was intended for releasing world music as well as his own albums. Ayub Ogada also appears on two tracks on Gabriel's '92 album Us, as well as the live album Secret World.

Roger Whittaker "I Don't Believe in If Anymore" (1970)

I Don't Believe in If Anymore
release date: 1970
format: vinyl (1974 reissue) / digital
[album rate: 3,5 / 5] [3,38]
producer: Denis Preston
label: Philips - nationality: England, UK

5th studio album by Kenya-born Roger Whittaker. The reissue has a slightly different track listing than the original 1970 album released on Columbia Records.
The album is one of my own first acquisitions on vinyl. I left this to my parents when moving out of our family house, and then re-acquired it after my father's passing.

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This post is part of MyMusicJourney, which enlists key releases that have shaped my musical taste when growing up and until age 14. Most of these releases come from my parents' and / or my older brother's collection.