🇨🇲🎸📀❓⏳ It’s hard to place Atebass‘s album with the Têtes Brûlées exactly in the discography of the iconic Cameroonian band. Gaps in dates and credits make it almost impossible. The only clue is the reference number of the record, released by Lanceleaux & Foty under the number LF48. This takes us back to 1987, the heroic era of these pioneers of electric bikutsi. In addition to its leader, the indisputable Jean-Marie Ahanda, the prodigy Théodore « Zanzibar » Epeme was also involved, along with André Afata and Roger Bekongo. Soul Mangoumba may also have contributed to the album. The group regularly showcases some of its musicians, and here it is bassist and singer Albert Ateba Mvondo, better known by his stage name Atebass, who is in the limelight. Atebass already has extensive experience in Benin and Nigeria, and has been with the group since its inception. Three bikutsi anthologies, and an afro-zouk in the air of time, on this album which remains a monument of the genre. Internal dissension led Atebass to leave the Têtes Brûlées and set up his own group, Les Martiens, with whom he would continue the bikutsi epic on his own.
Atebass et les Têtes Brûlées – 1987
