🥁🎺🎷🎸👯♀️🗽 Roger Plunket leaves the Super Combo to found Galaxy / Super Swing International. While most of the group’s discography was released by Debs, there were a few exceptions, at La Voix du Globe, and on the El Typica label, founded mainly to publish the early records of the other Plonquitte, Georges. Min, Né Moin En Afrique is therefore from an unknown year, but probably from the first half of the 70s. The band, based in Paris, recorded its very jazz compas, sprinkled with Latin harmonies, at the unmissable Johana studio, and took advantage of its location in the capital to recruit two first-rate blowers, Glenn Ferris – also a regular with Tabou Combo – and Bobby Rangell, associated with Jean-Claude Léandre, direct from Haiti. Guitarist Alex Jabot is as versatile as ever, and at ease in all styles. Plunket entrusts the keyboards to Jocelyn Delanay, and also invites Harold Abraham, often heard with Eric Cosaque and Gui Konket. On vocals, the leader alternates with Gustavie Cham (Lan Misé, irresistible) and Claude Desplan, for a total of four compas that have nothing to envy Haitian standards! And don’t miss Madam Marié’s nod to Stevie Wonder, a West Indian take on Sir Duke, which reminds us that Galaxy also made a name for itself with some excellent funk hits.
Min, Né Moin En Afrique – Galaxy, vers 1975
