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AFI USUAH, MARY - AFRICAN WOMANMary Afi Usuah trained as an a opera singer at the prestigious St. Cecilia Academy in Rome and spent 13 years touring Europe with artists like Duke Ellington and Deep Purple. She matched vocal chops with Robert Plant performing with Led Zeppelin and blew away the top names ... read more » |
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AHANOTU, ADOLF - SENSATIONA reissue of a cool Nigerian album, originally released in 1986. 'Sensation' reeks of dance floor freakiness and from the freaked-out opening seconds of the title track you are left in no doubt: the doctor is in the house. |
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AHANOTU, ADOLF - SENSATIONA reissue of a cool Nigerian album, originally released in 1986. 'Sensation' reeks of dance floor freakiness and from the freaked-out opening seconds of the title track you are left in no doubt: the doctor is in the house. |
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AKTION (NIGERIA) - GROOVE THE FUNK'Groove The Funk' is an essential and influential early Afro-funk LP. The album was originally released in 1975 by the Clover Recording Organization from Aba, Nigeria. The music is top notch Afrobeat mixed with amazing funky-psych grooves and featruring lots of fuzz guitar ... read more » |
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AKWASSA - LA'ILAAkwassa was among Nigeria's best '70s Afro-beat bands. Having released 'La'ila' in 1975, the group was among the early Nigerian funk bands to get an album out. Akwassa was closely related to the Heads Funk Band, since most members played in both acts. Akwassa originally was ... read more » |
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AMAS - GRILLFor all ya Afro freaks out there, here's a reissue of a highly rated 1981 Afrofunk LP from Nigerian artist Amas. 'Grill' originally appeared on the Phonodisk label. Articulate, cultured and classy, Gbubemi Amas' 'Grill' is proof that in the '80s Nigeria was producing a ... read more » |
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APOSTLES (NIGERIA) - THE APOSTLESThe Apostles were disciples of a heavy kind of psychedelic soul/rock fusion. After The Funkees left for London, they stepped into the breach to become the champions of East Nigeria's flourishing post-war music scene. This album from 1976, containing a heavy mix of wailing ... read more » |
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ARIGO, ROBO -& HIS KONASTONE MAJESTY- - SEXY THINGAs a founding member of Pogo Ltd, Robo Arigo played bass, guitar and organ on both of that band's albums. And on his own 'Sexy Thing' he even played the cowbell. However, listening to this record it's pretty clear that playing bass is where Robo's heart really was. ... read more » |
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BEST, MANFORD - COME GO WITH MEWith the Super Wings in mutiny and a trail for the manslaughter of his former bandmate, Spuds Nathan, still hanging over his head, Manford Best came out swinging with 'Come Go With Me'. It's a chirpy, calypso-influenced insight into the state of his mind and his first solo ... read more » |
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BEST, MANFORD - I'VE BEEN LOVING YOUReissue of Nigerian boogie funk album, originally released on Tabansi in 1980. 'I've Been Loving You' sees Manford Best finally laying the ghosts of The Wings to rest and emerge as a serious player in the glittering new world of Afro boogie. Recorded in London, with ... read more » |
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BETA YAMA GROUP - FREE LOVEIt's hard to get a handle on Nigerian musicians Nash Dodoo, Charlie Cuul and Jonas Caulley. In 1980 they released an album of face-melting gospel boogie as the BML chapels. And in the same year, calling themselves the Beta Yama Group, they put out 'Free Love', a belated ... read more » |
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BLACK CHILDREN SLEDGE FUNK CO. BAND - VOL. 3: AVIATION GRAND FATHERIn mid-'70s Nigeria, almost everybody loved the Black Children Sledge Funk Co. Band. Blasting out of the bustling river port of Onitsha, the band's infectious feel-good grooves were the perfect antidote to the dark economic clouds gathering over the country. The music is a ... read more » |
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BLACK, STEVE - HAPPY BIRTHDAY TO 'U'How do you follow up a stone-cold Afro Funk classic like 'Village Boogie'? Simple. Gather together some of the hottest players in Nigeria, take them down to the Phonodisk studios in Ijebu Igbo and let them loose on a bunch dancefloor fillers you spent the last four years ... read more » |
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BLACK, STEVE - VILLAGE BOOGIEA reissue of the incredible rare 1979 Afro-funk LP by a dynamic artist from Nigeria, originally issued by the well known Afrodisia label. 'Village Boogie!', Steve Black's debut-LP, really deserves the holy grail status amongst Afrofunk fanatics. This unique album contains ... read more » |
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BUCKNOR, SEGUN - SEGUN BUCKNORA reissue of the awesome self-titled Afro-funk LP by Nigerian star Segun Bucknor. On this 1975 album, his final one (originally issued by Afrodisia), Bucknor returned to his soul roots. The sound is sophisticated instead of sweaty, and comforting rather than confronting. |
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BURNIS - LIGHT MY FIREProduced by former Funkees-member Jake Sollo and backed by a hot team of session musicians including Friday Pozo, Nkono Teles and Joseph 'Jojo' Kuo, on this album Burnis delivered a slab of slick Afro disco boogie for the ages. The LP was originally released in 1983 by ... read more » |
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CLETIN, BENIS - JUNGLE MAGICConsidered an acid boogie classic, 'Jungle Magic' is a cosmic transmission from the early days of Nigerian disco. The bass lines are lethal. The synths are fat and squelchy. And the groove is non-stop and primal. Channeling the jungle gods of funk and introducing them to ... read more » |
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DANDY, TREVOR - DON'T CRY LITTLE TREEA gentle album full of consoling tunes, more or less in the vein of Cat Stevens' 'Morning Has Broken', but with a bit more soul (although this association might be caused by the insistent use of piano on this record). This ultra-rare pearl of funky gospel music was the ... read more » |
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DORGU, EMMA - ROVERMANIn 1979, Emma Dorgu decided it was time to act. He'd torn up the Lagos live scene with The Thermometers and conquered the airwaves with the single 'World People'. But there were injustices afoot, not just in Nigeria, but in South Africa and Zimbabwe and across the continent ... read more » |
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DUKE, EFFI -& THE LOVE FAMILY- - MR. LOVENigeria had a unique music scene in the 1970s. Much of the era's music was based on an intensive use of fuzz pedal and keyboards. Influences largely came from Western psychedelic blues and rock bands. In 1980 Effi Duke & The Love Family presented their debut-album, 'Mr. ... read more » |
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ELCADOS - WHAT EVER YOU NEEDOn CD, this is a reissue of the 1979 album by Nigerian band Elcados. The group released two rock-oriented albums in the mid '70s before hitting an appealing disco/reggae groove on 'Whatever You Need'. |
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ENANG, SONY - DON'T STOP THE MUSICSony Enang was no ordinary musician. As a keyboard player and vocalist with The Founders, he'd recorded some of the most seminal albums to come out of Eastern Nigeria. But this album is best known for being produced by Jake Sollo and featuring the song, 'Discolypso', that ... read more » |
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FAKROUN, AHMED - AHMED FAKROUNInsanely popular across the Maghreb, name-checked in international spy novels and beloved of music adventurers like David Byrne, Libyan superstar Ahmed Fakroun is the most astounding raï-disco-electronica pioneer you never heard of. His 1983 album 'Mots D'Amour' is a ... read more » |
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FAKROUN, AHMED - MOTS D'AMOURThe Arab world back in the 70s and 80s gave us quite a few very interesting rock and pop acts. Ahmed Fakroun from Libya was one of them. Here we have his 1983 album whose title means 'Words Of Love' in English. And in fact his kind of ethno pop seems to go deeper than just ... read more » |
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FRIIMEN MUSIK COMPANY - WE CAN GET IT ONBy the mid 1970s in Nigeria, the Biafran War was a distant memory and the music scene in the eastern city of Aba was booming again. Bands such as The Funkees, The Wings and The Apostles grabbed the headlines, but the more interesting stuff was coming from smaller groups ... read more » |
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