The 40 Watt Banana 1970 Photo: Supplied
Episode 140 features an interview about the Wellington based band, The 40 Watt Banana who formed in Wellington in 1968 performing and recording Indo-Afro psychedelic music that has just been released by a Spanish re-issue label called Pharaway Sounds. The curious thing about this story is that it’s an album that started with the release of an esoteric single called ‘Nirvana’ released by HMV in 1971. The other trax on the new album called Peeled by 40 Watt Banana were demos that were never released - until now. Founding member, jazz musician Kevin Clark talks about an album that took 48 years to see the light of day yet sounds like it was recorded today.
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Constantinople & Ablaye Cissoko
Denkilo
Constantinople & Ablaye Cissoko
Traversées
Constantinople Kors & ko
Blick Bassy
Mpodol
Blick Bassy
1958
Np Format
Angelique Kidjo
Quimbara
Junior Cepeda
Celia
Verve
Vaya Con Dios
La Llorona
Trsd . arranged by Vaya Con Dios
The Promise
Altermundo
Tutus De La Guyane
Nanao Nanao
Tutus De La Guyane
Disques Debs International Vol. 1
Strut Records UK
Refugees for Refugees
Shuq (feat. Bassem Hawar & Robbe Kieckens)
Refugees for Refugees
Amina
Musiquepublique
Bsassekou Kouyate & N'Goni Ba
Deli
Bsassekou Kouyate
Miri
Outhere Records
40 Watt Banana
Nirvana
Clark, Parsons, 40 Watt Banana
Peeled
Pharaway Sounds
40 Watt Banana
Namaqua Reprise
Clark, Parsons, 40 Watt Banana
Peeled
Pharaway Sounds
40 Watt Banana
Duddle-Dup
Clark, Parsons, 40 Watt Banana
Peeled
Pharaway Sounds
40 Watt Banana
Haryana
Clark, Parsons, 40 Watt Banana
Peeled
Pharaway Sounds
40 Watt Banana
Khamatic Conversations
Clark, Parsons, 40 Watt Banana
Peeled
Pharaway Sounds
40 Watt Banana
Amanzi
Clark, Parsons, 40 Watt Banana
Peeled
Pharaway Sounds
40 Watt Banana
Maharashna
Clark, Parsons, 40 Watt Banana
Peeled
Pharaway Sounds
40 Watt Banana
Mridungham
Clark, Parsons, Balu Balachandran
Peeled
Pharaway Sounds
40 Watt Banana
Namaqua
Clark, Parsons, 40 Watt Banana
Peeled
Pharaway Sounds
Rahim Alhaj
Letter 1. Eastern Love – Sinan
Rahim Alhaj
Letters from Iraq - Oud & string Quintet
Smithsonian Folkways
