Nigeria Special: Modern Highlife, Afro-Sounds & Nigerian Blues 1970-6

by Various Artists

Nigeria Special: Modern Highlife, Afro-Sounds & Nigerian Blues 1970-6 cover art

This impeccably curated Soundway Records anthology digs deep into the highly innovative, post-civil-war Nigerian music scene. The tracks highlight a remarkable era of experimentation where local musicians aggressively modernized traditional Highlife and palm-wine blues by incorporating heavy fuzz guitars and the driving funk rhythms of James Brown. It remains a vital, deeply rhythmic document celebrating a forgotten golden age of West African fusion.

Genres

  • Highlife
  • Afro-Funk

Tracklist

  1. Ayamma
  2. Okwukwe Na Nchekwube
  3. Amalinja
  4. Akula Owu Onyeara
  5. Oja Omoba
  6. Koma Mosi
  7. Nekwaha Semi Colon
  8. Osalobua Rekpama
  9. Onwu Ama Dike
  10. Feso Jaiye
  11. Eme Kowa Iasa Ile Wa
  12. To Whom It May Concern
  13. Ugali
  14. Asiko Mi Ni
  15. Torri Wowo
  16. Belema
  17. Alabeke
  18. Arraino
  19. Simini-Yaya
  20. Buroda Mase
  21. I Want a Break Thru'
  22. Business Before Pleasure
  23. Omo Yen Wu Mi
  24. Blak Sound
  25. Eguae Oba
  26. Akpaison