Album: Various artists, Nigeria
Nigeria Special: Modern Highlife, Afro-Sounds & Nigerian Blues, 1970-1976, Soundway
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Your support makes all the difference.Situated somewhere between the guitar-bright innocence of highlife, and the tougher, edgier sound of Afrobeat, this double CD puts before you a less explored area of Nigeria's musical culture when the country reeled under the influence of American funk, soul and rock in the early 1970s. Many of these obscure (some previously unreleased) tracks are little more than glorified jams, but what jams! And don't be put off by their obscurity or their vintage: perhaps due to the involvement of major labels such as HMV and EMI, the recording quality is in the main extremely good.
Download this: The slide guitar-led 'Okwukwe Na Nchekwube'
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