Boney M.: Kalimba De Luna - 20 Happy Songs (Vol. 2) [1984]

The year of 1984 saw Boney M. return with the album 10,000 Lightyears after a 2½ year album break and Reggie Tsiboe replacing Bobby Farrell in the line-up. The new album was not the successful comeback that the group was hoping for. Farian started recording a new Christmas album over the summer of 1984 when he heard an Italian single, Kalimba De Luna, and decided to record this with Reggie Tsiboe. It was rushed out as a Boney M. single (despite neither Liz Mitchell nor Marcia Barrett singing on it) in August '84 and soared to #13 in the German charts, Boney M.'s best chart placing in three years. Farian then reunited the group with Bobby Farrell for the follow-up single Happy Song, a title riding the italo-disco/breakdance wave. It peaked at #7 in Germany towards the end of the year.

A compilation album was released for the Christmas market, naturally capitalising on these two new hits plus the group's singles of the 80s, many of which had not been available on any album before. The problem was that Farian truncated most of the tracks to run three minutes only.

I have given the album a make-over, visualising it as a double-album and expanding it to 20 Happy Songs from the original 16. There are many songs that already appear on my Children Of Paradise album but whereas that one focused on the early single mixes, Kalimba focuses more on the 'finalised' versions. I have added a remix of Breakaway (a 1988 B-side by another Farian artist, Kirsty Shaw), the 3:27 edit of Malaika (because I like it and wanted it included somewhere), Bang Bang Lulu (not a favourite and does not fit the timeline since it was recorded 1985 but I did not include it in Eye Dance) and the B-side School's Out (nobody likes it but it bookends the compilation starting with Happy Song).

Vol. 1
A1. Happy Song (Club Mix)
A2. Going Back West (Single Version)
A3. Barbarella Fortuneteller (10,000 Lightyears Promo-Cassette Version)
A4. I Feel Good (10,000 Lightyears Promo-Cassette Version)

B1. Consuela Biaz (Boonoonoonoos LP edit)
B2. Jambo - Hakuna Matata (Single Version)
B3. Jimmy (1981 Edit)
B4. Calendar Song (1984 Remix)
B5. Breakaway (Remix)
B6. Malaika (Boonoonoonoos MC edit)

Vol. 2
00:00 C1. Kalimba De Luna (Club Mix)
07:06 C2. Felicidad (Margherita) (Single Version)
11:39 C3. Living Like A Moviestar
14:40 C4. Gadda Da Vida (Single Version)

19:43 D1. Somewhere In The World (Album Edit)
22:41 D2. African Moon (Alternate 1981 Mix)
26:53 D3. Children Of Paradise (Single Version)
31:22 D4. Boonoonoonoos
33:33 D5. Bang Bang Lulu
36:32 D6. School's Out (Instrumental)
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