{"id":42548,"date":"2017-11-07T18:20:31","date_gmt":"2017-11-07T16:20:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/pan-african-music.com\/hamad-kalkaba-the-cameroon-sound-of-the-70s\/"},"modified":"2020-04-27T03:38:29","modified_gmt":"2020-04-27T02:38:29","slug":"analog-africa-hamad-kalkaba","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pan-african-music.com\/en\/analog-africa-hamad-kalkaba\/","title":{"rendered":"Hamad Kalkaba: the Cameroon sound of the 70&#8217;s"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3 class=\"pam-featured-content\" ><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-9951 pam-featured-content\"  src=\"https:\/\/pan-african-music-production.fra1.digitaloceanspaces.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/a4167976220_10.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1200\" height=\"857\" srcset=\"https:\/\/pan-african-music-production.fra1.digitaloceanspaces.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/a4167976220_10.jpg 1200w, https:\/\/pan-african-music-production.fra1.digitaloceanspaces.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/a4167976220_10-759x542.jpg 759w, https:\/\/pan-african-music-production.fra1.digitaloceanspaces.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/a4167976220_10-1010x721.jpg 1010w, https:\/\/pan-african-music-production.fra1.digitaloceanspaces.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/a4167976220_10-661x472.jpg 661w, https:\/\/pan-african-music-production.fra1.digitaloceanspaces.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/a4167976220_10-465x332.jpg 465w, https:\/\/pan-african-music-production.fra1.digitaloceanspaces.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/a4167976220_10-375x268.jpg 375w\" sizes=\"(min-width:1010px) 759px,100vw\" loading=\"lazy\" \/><\/h3>\n<h3>Analog Africa releases\u00a0<em>Hamad Kalkaba and The Golden Sounds 1974\u200b-\u200b1975,<\/em>\u00a0a great album from Cameroon&#8217;s mythical singer\u00a0Hamad Kalkaba.<\/h3>\n<p>Hamad Kalkaba was a &#8220;distinguished public figure,\u00a0a retired Colonel in the army of Cameroon, and a former member of Cameroon\u2019s Olympic Selection Committee. When we tracked him down he was serving as president of the Confederation of African Athletics.&#8221;\u00a0Throughout his education he always was interested in sports and music.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><span style=\"color: #333333;\"><a style=\"color: #333333;\" href=\"https:\/\/open.spotify.com\/user\/panafricanmusic\/playlist\/3br8AcCZxoMFb2xRu6IWuW\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Listen to the Afro Groove Party! playlist (afrobeat, highlife, disco, funk&#8230;)<\/a><\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><em>Hamad Kalkaba and The Golden Sounds<\/em>\u00a0is made of 6 tracks\u00a0that &#8220;represent his\u00a0entire discography find\u00a0their roots in the rhythms of northern Cameroon, especially the mightiest Gandjal&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p><iframe style=\"border: 0; width: 100%; height: 120px;\" src=\"https:\/\/bandcamp.com\/EmbeddedPlayer\/album=461963248\/size=large\/bgcol=ffffff\/linkcol=0687f5\/tracklist=false\/artwork=small\/transparent=true\/\" width=\"300\" height=\"150\" seamless=\"\" loading=\"lazy\"><a href=\"http:\/\/analogafrica.bandcamp.com\/album\/hamad-kalkaba-and-the-golden-sounds-1974-1975\">Hamad Kalkaba and The Golden Sounds 1974-1975 by Hamad Kalkaba<\/a><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><span class=\"il\">Kalkaba<\/span>\u00a0explained &#8220;how the songs recorded in the mid 1970s were part of a movement, a movement initiated by musicians from all around Cameroon who, with the help of keyboards, drum kits and electric guitars, had started to modernize the traditional rhythms of their regions. For\u00a0<span class=\"il\">Kalkaba<\/span>\u00a0it was no different and backed by his band the Golden Sounds, devoted himself to the promotion of the sounds of northern Cameroon.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #333333;\"><em>Hamad Kalkaba and The Golden Sounds 1974\u200b-\u200b1975<\/em>, out 8th December via <a style=\"color: #333333;\" href=\"https:\/\/analogafrica.bandcamp.com\/album\/hamad-kalkaba-and-the-golden-sounds-1974-1975\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Analog Africa<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-9950\" src=\"https:\/\/pan-african-music-production.fra1.digitaloceanspaces.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/0011698994_10.jpg\" alt=\"Hamad Kalkaba and The Golden Sounds\" width=\"1200\" height=\"878\" srcset=\"https:\/\/pan-african-music-production.fra1.digitaloceanspaces.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/0011698994_10.jpg 1200w, https:\/\/pan-african-music-production.fra1.digitaloceanspaces.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/0011698994_10-759x555.jpg 759w, https:\/\/pan-african-music-production.fra1.digitaloceanspaces.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/0011698994_10-1010x739.jpg 1010w, https:\/\/pan-african-music-production.fra1.digitaloceanspaces.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/0011698994_10-661x484.jpg 661w, https:\/\/pan-african-music-production.fra1.digitaloceanspaces.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/0011698994_10-465x340.jpg 465w, https:\/\/pan-african-music-production.fra1.digitaloceanspaces.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/0011698994_10-375x274.jpg 375w\" sizes=\"(min-width:1010px) 759px,100vw\" loading=\"lazy\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Analog Africa releases\u00a0Hamad Kalkaba and The Golden Sounds 1974\u200b-\u200b1975,\u00a0a great album from Cameroon&#8217;s mythical singer\u00a0Hamad Kalkaba. Hamad Kalkaba was a &#8220;distinguished public figure,\u00a0a retired Colonel in the army of Cameroon, and a former member of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":9951,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3944],"tags":[3953],"location":[],"yst_prominent_words":[],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pan-african-music.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42548"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/pan-african-music.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/pan-african-music.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pan-african-music.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pan-african-music.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=42548"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/pan-african-music.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42548\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pan-african-music.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/9951"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pan-african-music.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=42548"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pan-african-music.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=42548"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pan-african-music.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=42548"},{"taxonomy":"location","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pan-african-music.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/location?post=42548"},{"taxonomy":"yst_prominent_words","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pan-african-music.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/yst_prominent_words?post=42548"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}