Leon "Chaino" Johnson ?– Unbridled Passions Of Love's Eerie Spectre -4 lp
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Chaino ?– Unbridled Passions Of Love's Eerie Spectre
is a strange and obscure LP by Chicago percussionist Leon CHAINO Johnson. Wikipedia say.... (1927 – July 8, 1999), the self-styled "percussion genius of Africa,"[1] was an American bongo player. After touring for several years on the Chitlin' Circuit, he released several albums and became popular with listeners of exotica music in the late 1950s and early 1960s. In the promotion of his albums, a fictional biography was developed, depicting Chaino as an orphan from a lost tribe in central Africa who had been rescued by a missionary after his tribe had been massacred. Chaino was actually born in Philadelphia and raised in Chicago.Early years[edit]
Chaino was born in Philadelphia,[1] but he grew up on the South Side of Chicago. After attending grammar school, Chaino left home to see the country. He began playing the bongos and toured "the so-called 'chitlin' circuit of black nightclubs."[1] According to his brother, George Johnson, Chaino lost touch with his family and "vacillated between the brink of stardom and edge of starvation as he made a name for himself in the late 1940s and '50s as a percussionist."[2]
Exotica albums[edit]
In 1958, Chaino teamed up with record producer Kirby Allen; the pair released several albums in the late 1950s.[3] The first album released by the Chaino-Allan team was Jungle Mating Rhythms, released by Verve Records in 1958. Chaino and Allan released six additional albums: Percussion for Primitive Lovers, Percussion for Playboys (vols. 1 and 2), Jungle Echoes, Night of the Spectre, Africana, and Temptation. The albums featured Chaino playing bongos, steel drums and other percussion instruments, combined with primal chants and "strains of grunting and howling" that Allan called "sensual primitive music" or "Americanized African" music.[2] In June 1958, Billboard gave Chaino's "Eyes of the Spectre" a four-star review and noted:
"A truly unusual sound can be heard on this album. Chaino turns in what amounts to a one-man show on a variety of bongos, congo drums, steel drums, gourds and assorted noisemakers, altho the label's sound work doesn't do it real justice. Rhythms are basically African or Afro-Cuban. In the background, Chaino whistles, wails and occasionally gives a blood-curdling whoop."[4]
THIS RECORD HAS LIGHT SURFACE SCRATCHES AND SOME SURFACE NOISE . BUT NOT ENOUGH TO EFFECT ENJOYABLE PLAY. NO SKIPS THAT I HEARD, THE COVER IS IN GREAT SHAPE. IT DOES LOOK LIKE SOMEONE DID MEND ONE OF THE EDGES FOR A SPLIT (SEE PICTURE WITH DICK THOMAS SIGNATURE)
ITS A GREAT RECORD! THE COVER IS WHAT I DISPLAYED IN A FRAME WHEN I BOUGHT IT AT A THRIFT STORE YEARS AGO. HIGHLY RECOMMENDED FOR THE EXOTICA AND PIN-UP GIRL COLLECTORS. DM FOR MORE INFO ON CONDITION
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