Hot Heads
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| Hot Heads | ||||
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| Released | 1990 | |||
| Genre | Bikutsi | |||
| Label | Shanachie[1] | |||
| Producer | Andy Lyden, Jean-Marie Ahanda | |||
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Hot Heads is an album by the Cameroonian band les Têtes Brulées, released in 1990.[2][3] The band supported the album with a North American tour.[4]
Recorded in France, the album was produced by Andy Lyden and Jean-Marie Ahanda.[5][6] The band sang in a Cameroonian vernacular, French, and English.[7][8] Guitar player Theodore "Zanzibar" Epeme committed suicide before the album was released.[7] Epeme was known for applying foam rubber to his guitar to imitate a balafon.[9] Some songs are about musicians leaving the countryside for city life.[8]
