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Percussions is an album of previously recorded singles by Serge Gainsbourg released in 1964.

The album featured Babatunde Olatunji's drum-heavy tunes "Kiyakiya (Why Do You Run Away?)", "Akiwowo (Chant to the Trainman)" and "Jin-go-lo-ba" which are featured on Olatunji's acclaimed Drums of Passion LP (1959). They appeared -- uncredited -- with new French lyrics but otherwise identical in rhythm, melody and overall sound, as "Joanna", "New York – U.S.A." and "Marabout", respectively.

The song "Pauvre Lola" was an equally uncredited cover of "Umqokozo (Children's Game Song About A New Red Dress)", a composition by Miriam Makeba.

In later years Babatunde Olatunji was credited but as of 2018, Makeba never was.

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Gainsbourg Percussions est le sixième album studio de Serge Gainsbourg.

L’art abstrait a fait éclater la peinture : quand en musique on fait éclater les formes, il ne reste que les percussions, au désavantage de l’harmonie. […] Pour réaliser ce disque, j’ai emprunté des rythmes africains et si je les utilise de manière abondante, ce n’est pas une concession à notre époque. Il faut une forme qui lui corresponde et le rythme la caractérise.

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Production

45 tours extraits de l'album

  • 1964 : EP Philips Couleur café (Joanna / Tatoué Jérémie / Couleur café / New York USA)
  • 1965 : S Philips Machins choses (Machins choses / Couleur café)
  • 1965 : S Philips Joanna (Joanna / Pauvre Lola)

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