CHAINO Chaino Africana 1959 London SAH-D 6078 UK STEREO LP EX SUPER & VERY RARE

	£		20
	$		26

ARTIST: CHAINO

TITLE: CHAINO AFRICANA

SPELLBINDING PRIMITIVE RHYTHMS BY CHAINO, PERCUSSION GENIUS OF AFRICA

LABEL & YEAR: London Records, dark blue label with silver lettering, Stereophonic American Series SAH-D 6078; 1959 UK Press, Stereo

NOTE!!! THE 1959 STEREO VERSION OF THIS FANTASTIC ALBUM IS A VERY, VERY RARE ALBUM TO FIND!!!!!

CONDITION VINYL: Excellent, has one very fine surface hairline which is not audible

CONDITION SLEEVE: Excellent, this has some small amount of damage to lower rear sleeve flipback edge

DESCRIPTION:

Side 1:

BREATHING BONGOS

SWAMP GIRL

WALKING BONGOS

AFRICAN JAZZ

CONGO SERENADE

BI-LA

Side 2:

POKO CHA CHA

SLAVE TRAIN

BONGO BEAT

SLAVE GIRL

AFRO CHA CHA

BONGO STICK BOOGIE

Chaino

    Born Leon Johnson, 1927, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania

    Died 8 July 1999, Chicago, Illinois

Chaino is one of the elusive figures of space age pop. After growing up in Chicago, Leon Johnson left home and lived a fairly wild life, eventually taking up the bongos and making a name for himself as "Chaino" (taken perhaps from the great Cuban conga player, Chano Pozo?) on the "chitlins" circuit of black nightclubs. In the late 1950s, he went to Hollywood and met producer Kirby Allan, who had recently been inspired by African tribal music during a trip to Kenya. Allan and Johnson went into the famed Gold Star studio in early 1958 to try to create an American-ized version. They eventually succeeded in getting jazz impresario Norman Granz to release some of these cuts on the luridly-titled, Jungle Mating Rhythms. At the same time, they were able to sell tracks to three different small West Coast jazz labels, Score, Tampa, and Omega, and all four albums were released virtually simultaneously. A few months later, Allan signed with the Silent Majority label, Dot (home to Lawrence Welk, for a fifth album, Africana. A sixth album, Temptation, was recorded for Omega but was barely out the door before the label went bankrupt.

Jungle Echoes

These albums features Chaino playing bongos, congas, steel drums, and other percussion instruments, adding primal grunts, howls, growls, and cries, with almost no other back-up. One typical cut, "Jungle Chase," has Chaino's incessant drumming, accompanied by the moans and groans of a man and a woman--supposedly sounding like a couple being chased by a wild animal, but better described, in Jack Diamond's words, as "the best sex you never had." Allan abetted Chaino in creating his character, claiming in liner notes that Chaino was an orphan from a lost tribe in Africa who was taken in by missionaries and brought to the U.S.

Chaino worked occasionally as a session musician and even appeared in two movies, "Nighttide" and "The Devil's Hand." He had a chance at getting wider recognition through an appearance with Miriam Makeba at the Hollywood Bowl to coincide with the release of his Dot album, but when the opportunity knocked, Chaino was sitting in jail and Allan was unable to get him released. "He was a troubled artist, but it was what made him a great artist. He vented all his hang-ups and sexual frustrations busting out on those drums," Allan has said. Eventually, Allan gave up promoting Chaino and lost contact with him.

In 1997, Chaino's brother George tracked him down and brought him back to Chicago for a reunion. Not long after, George cared for him after he was beaten up in a South Central Los Angeles bar. "The next thing I know, he said, 'I'm going downtown,' and a month later he popped up in Louisiana." In 1998, Allan worked with the label Bacchus Archive on a compilation of Chaino's work, titled Chaino, Africana and Beyond, but Chaino was diagnosed with a brain tumor and never enjoyed the rewards of this renewed interest in his work.

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