Tag: Nigeria
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Mowgan completes trio of electronic albums that harness sublime vocal talent and musicianship via Mali, Benin, Nigeria, NYC and France on Mow Records
Mow Records drop their third album L’enfants De Kita – all produced by label owner Mowgan and this time featuring the vocal talents of Fanta Sayon Sissoko from Mali. The album was recorded in Toulouse where Fanta is based, she is a singer with a musical family – her father played guitar and ngoni for…
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Further acclaim for Etuk Ubong, ahead of June’s debut album ‘Africa Today’, latest single is evolutionary afrobeat for Night Dreamer
Etuk Ubong continues to garner international acclaim, ahead of his debut album release on June 19th for Night Dreamer. A range of key tastemakers have been supporting the singles released so far from Africa Today, including latest Ekpo MMommon – championed at the weekend by Gilles Peterson on BBC Radio 6 Music. Etuk Ubong’s previous…
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New single ‘Purpose Of Creation’ by trumpeter Etuk Ubong shows why he is poised for global stardom, ahead of afrobeat-jazz album for Night Dreamer
Etuk Ubong’s new single Purpose Of Creation and bonus track Etuk’s Ritual are out today, ahead of his June album release – Africa Today on Night Dreamer. These afrobeat backed tracks blend highlife and jazz, with Ubong’s Nigerian heritage heard firmly at the fore of these engaging compositions. The trumpeter, composer and bandleader has developed an original…
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Mr Bongo to reissue “one of the best” Afrobeat albums of the great Nigerian, Peter King – ‘Oma Lewa’
Mr Bongo pick a supreme album from the catalogue of Peter King – a heavyweight of Afrobeat and the 1970s Nigerian music scene – with an official reissue of Omo Lewa. The label says about the 1976 LP: “[This is] super-funky business from Nigerian-born multi-instrumentalist, Peter King; [and] fuses funk, jazz and highlife vibrations. Omo…
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Left Ear press 1993 jams by Jay U Experience – you must hear these synth and drum machine experiments from New York
This is otherworldly music by Nigeria’s Jay U Experience, soon to be available on vinyl via the Melbourne based label, Left Ear Records. We’re big fans of this label and their intrepid musical excavations, but even by Left Ear’s impeccable standards, this is a real dig and insanely good. This EP release is extracted from…
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The Lagos disco of the ‘Queen of Nigerian Television’: rare tracks by Julie Coker are reissued at last by Kalita Records
Kalita Records continue their label’s exceptional selection of fully authorised reissues – this time delivering the first collection of Julie Coker’s back catalogue on A Life In The Limelight: Lagos Disco and Itsekiri Highlife. Coker was the queen of Nigerian television, after gaining fame as Miss Western Nigeria in 1957. Her career began in the Nigerian entertainment…
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Afrodisia revive Christy Essien’s ‘Give Me A Chance’ LP and we are reminded of her majesty
Rumours by Christy Essien is one of the best disco songs ever produced, from one of the leading female recording artists of her time in Nigeria. This reissue of the Give Me A Chance album provides a glorious opportunity to own this classic crackle free. Essien was born in Akwa Ibom State in 1960 and enjoyed an accomplished career…
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Aura’s African boogie funk: the ‘Spiritual Connection’ grail LP is finally reissued by Afrodesia
Ignore this reissue at your peril – as Aura are on fire on their album Spiritual Connection, originally recorded for Afrodesia in Nigeria. The relatively short lived ‘Aura’ project was spiritually guided by Zee-Tei Debekeme in 1976. The band consisted of the keys of Issac Moore, Omega Garbal on guitar, Casco Mayor on percussion, Afrodisia…
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