El Rego is a rediscovered legend of West-African music from Benin. Blending afro-beat, afro-funk, soul, psychedelia, crazy wah-wahing guitars and James Brown-esque wails - this isn't one to be missed. El Rego is, like many underground African artists of the 60s and 70s, gaining a new Western following and a collection of his material has been compiled and reissued by
Daptone Records this month -
available here.
El Rego's also featured on Analog Africa's compilation
'African Scream Contest' (2008). It's amazing - buy it. Here's a track from it:
Vimado Wingnan (I'm going with Daptone's title rather than the youtube vid) is also available on a release from
Daptone:
You can grab a two track vinyl rip
here. The tunes are more chilled than the videos above, but just beautiful.
If you like this, then you'll love
Orchestre Polyrhythmo de Cotenou.
-L
completely forgot to post this album upon its release this january by Daptone Records (again great stuff after Sharon Jones and El Rego). the andrew and i were raving about bradley during the jerusalem days, good times. in any case: 12 tracks of banging soul&funk with a sublime backing band. 
