Wally Badarou

10 December 2008

Wally Badarou is a cool somewhat unknown musician who was a big part of the Island Records recording scene in the late 70’s / early 80’s. He had his own recording studio in Nassau, Bahamas (so did Sly and Robbie, recently anthologized on the amazing compilation Funky Nassau:The Compass Point Story)

Wally played keyboard with many bigger names, including Joe Cocker, Black Uhuru, Grace Jones, and steadily in brit-funk band Level 42.

His album Echoes is a really cool ez listening caribbean new age dance record. Really.

Here is a great video from the record, for the song Chief Inspector.