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Bongo Joe Records
Independent record shop and label stocking overlooked vinyl from calypso to Anatolian psych to spiritual jazz.
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This guide to Bongo Joe Records in Geneva starts with George Coleman, a Texas street musician who built a drum kit from oil barrels and busked under the name Bongo Joe for thirty years, turning down real venues to keep playing the sidewalk. It follows his one 1968 album, produced by Chris Strachwitz, and the record collector who in 2013 named a Geneva shop after him rather than after himself. From there it traces what ended up in the crates, from Trinidadian calypso to Anatolian psych. Best browsed slowly, one bin at a time.
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