Catalogue       Group                                                         A side/B side                                                       Year

Number

Salula 03     Wanyika Stars                                 Kaka Yangu Pts 1 & 2                               mid-1980s

Salula 11     Utawala (Ap) Band                           Utanikumbuka Pts 1 & 2

Salula 12     Wanyika Stars                                 Urafiki Gani Huu? Pts 1 & 2                       mid-1980s

Salula 14     Sega Sega Band                              Baba Otonglo No 2 Pt 1/Budget ya Nyumba Pt 2

Salula 16     Utawala (AP) Band                           Namala Kazi Pts 1 & 2

Salula 17     Orch Super Abalibayo                       Simba Mlofa/Emitula

Salula 18     Sega Sega Band                              "K" wa Mama Pts 1 & 2

Salula 19     Prison Training Choir                        Tumikia Kenya/Utamanduni Wetu

Salula 21    Orch OA Kawa                                   Duniani Ni Matembezini Pts 1 & 2

Salula 22     Orch Super Abalibayo                       Omwana Wopayo/Papa Aitsa

The listing for the Wanyika Stars records on this label is based on the Wanyika Groups discography compiled by John Beadle with Doug Paterson and Peter Toll for Toshiya Endo’s website, which you can find here

http://biochem.chem.nagoya-u.ac.jp/~endo/EAWanyika.html

Thanks to Doug for the label scan and details of the other records listed here.

Orch Super Abalibayo were a Luhya band, who only appear to have recorded for this label.

Salula 14 is presumably a follow-up to Baba Otonglo (translation: Father of Money), a 1984 song by Luo musician John Owino that was banned by the Moi government for its apparent criticism of the president’s handling of government finances. Information from Popular Music Censorship in Africa, edited by Michael Drewett and Martin Cloonan (Ashgate Publishing, 2006).

Pauly Becquart very kindly sent in details of Salula 16, one of a tiny handful of records in Giriama on this website.