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Bbc - Dj Archaeologist Of African Vinyl

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The BBC has an interesting piece in its news section

 

Titled 

Frank Gossner: The archaeologist of African vinyl

 

clipped from the article

 

A German DJ has become an archaeologist of funk. He travels around Africa searching for old, unwanted and often moulding LPs, gets them reissued and then plays them at his gigs around the world.

 

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One way Gossner located records was by making posters with the brightly coloured covers of the albums he was looking for - plus large "WANTED!" signs and his contact information.

 

the story has cropped up before but  it looks like the bbc has put it together well

here's the link

 

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/magazine-26654516

 

 

the guys blog

 

https://voodoofunk.blogspot.co.uk/

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As an immense rare soul record collector , I got in touch with Frank prior to his African odyssey , and my want was delivered , God Bless that man.

As an immense rare soul record collector , I got in touch with Frank prior to his African odyssey , and my want was delivered , God Bless that man.

Otherwise known as Voodoo Frank.

 

Anyone who has the inherent energy to go digging in deepest Africa has my supreme respect. That's exactly the same thirst for knowledge and discovering hitherto unknown tunes that us Soul diggers have in our chosen areas. In fact, I'd like to think that we were pretty quick off the block at seriously digging into other cultures from the late 50's onwards.....

 

Afro-Funk is not my thing but if it was I'd go directly to Voodoo Frank for his expertise. A giant amongst diggers.

 

Ian D :D

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