Here's an 80's pop album, on the A side Adi Bing Slamet and Ira Maya Sopha and on the B side Yuanita Boediman, I think she's just singing songs from the Black Brothers, I don't think it's the Black Brothers playing on this album, doesn't sound like them at all....
Here's an album from the Black Brothers. Like I said, all these were promotional albums for radio stations and they came out without a cover, they came out only as cassettes and I'm giving the cassette cover here.....
Black Brothers was a well-known West Papuan pop group from Jayapura. The band consisted of five members, led by Andy Ayamiseba. Their music, sung in Tok Pisin, and originally in Indonesian, included influences from reggae and political elements inspired by the Black Power movement. The group went into voluntary exile in Vanuatu in 1979, protesting Indonesian policies in West Papua. They later moved to Papua New Guinea.
Black Brothers were the most popular musical group in New Guinea during the 1980s. The reggae influences of the Black Brothers influenced various other musical groups in Papua New Guinea.
From what I understand they put out quiet a few albums when they were staying in Papua New Guinea, those I don't have and those are the albums where their reggae influences were the most strong, I've got some of their (extremely rare) albums that came out here in Indonesia and those albums are mostly pop songs with the occasional funk banger.....
As far as West-Papua goes.... I've written about that on this blog before.... Right now it's still closed off for journalists, things are pretty bad in Boven Digoel, I'll just give you this link if you are interested:
Here's the 1972 promo for radio record from Heavy Metal/Prog-rock band God Spell. Extremely rare this one. It was never released, not on vinyl, not on cassette, only the promo's.... Couple of heavy metal bangers, couple of ballads....
Here's an album from Shankar Jaikishan with Lata Mangeshkar, Mohd. Rafi, Mukesh and Greeta Dutt..... This came out in 1958 but this is the 1980 Pakistani pressing.... There's a few more albums from Shankar Jaikishan on this blogs....
