FAKROUN AHMED
2016. The 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..
BLACK STEVE
2016. A reissue of the 1979 Afro-funk LP by a dynamic artist from Nigeria, originally issued by the well know Afrodisia label. 'Village Boogie!' really deserves the status of a legendary rarity and holy grail for f..
CAMACHO RAY -BAND-
2016. A reissue of an excellent yet underrated soul/funk/disco album from the US, originally issued in 1979. Bass guitar, regular drums and percussions weave a tight web of rhythm patterns that capture your body ri..
AKTION
2016. '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 ..
DUKE EFFI
2016. Nigeria 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 19..
JONES BERKELY IKE
2016. 'Nation Building' is a real forgotten gem from the late '70s and among the very best Afro-beat disco LP's ever. BLO's founder and guitarist Berkely Ike Jones is one of the icons of the Nigerian rock scene. ..
AKWASSA
2016. Akwassa 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 B..
DANDY TREVOR
2016. What we have here is uncut, well crafted Afro-funk. Though Heads Funk Band shared members with Akwassa, the two groups co-existed simultaneously, with Felix Day (Feladey) on guitar and Eddie Offeyi on drums..
STEVO
2016. 'Musica Negra' is a missing link, a real lost gem of the Atlanta Funk Music scene. The album is written and produced by Calvin Arnold with Tommy Stewart, Barney Conway and Herb Lance as engineers. The original..
BLO
2016. 'Phase IV' showcases BLO at the height of the trio's powers. Buzzing after a hugely successful tour of Denmark and Norway, the Nigerian Afro funk trio went to London in 1975 and headed straight into the Orange..
KANONU ALEKE
2016. After spending much of the '70s humping his congos around New York as a session musician, Nigerian Aleke Kanonu pulled in some favours to record an album of his own. The result was 'Aleke' (1980), a criminally..
STORMMERS
2016. The Stormmers was a group led by Renny Pearl, former bandleader and bass player with Aktion (The Aktions/Aktion 13), an Afro funk band from Warri, Nigeria that burned brightly and briefly in the mid-'70s. W..
BLO
2016. 'Phase IV' showcases BLO at the height of the trio's powers. Buzzing after a hugely successful tour of Denmark and Norway, the Nigerian Afro funk trio went to London in 1975 and headed straight into the Ora..
PINO GERALDO
2016. When Geraldo Pino rolled into town from Sierra Leone with his Heartbeats, Nigeria had never seen anything quite like them. Slick, tight and playing the latest James Brown-style funk on the very expensive equip..
FAKROUN AHMED
2016. Insanely 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..
AFI USUAH MARY
2016. Mary 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 Rober..
MOSCO HARRY
2016. Harry Mosco's 'Country Boy' is a certified floor-filler, bursting with Studio 54-era disco-funk as well as a token reggae monster, complete with its own dub version. Harry Mosco always had swagger. A founding ..
SAHARA ALL STAR BAND JOS
2016. Based in the Havana Nightclub, in the central plateau town of Jos, the Sahara All Stars Of Jos weren't part of the Lagos scene or the one in the east. Their leader, Dan Satch Ayo, had played with Dr. Sir Warri..
MOSCO HARRY
2016. Harry Mosco's 'Country Boy' is a certified floor-filler, bursting with Studio 54-era disco-funk as well as a token reggae monster, complete with its own dub version. Harry Mosco always had swagger. A foundi..
SAHARA ALL STAR BAND JOS
2016. Based in the Havana Nightclub, in the central plateau town of Jos, the Sahara All Stars Of Jos weren't part of the Lagos scene or the one in the east. Their leader, Dan Satch Ayo, had played with Dr. Sir Warri..
ELCADOS
2016. On vinyl, 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'...
LEBARTY AIGBE
2016. In 1979, long-time Highlife veteran Aigbe Lebarty decided to try his hand at high-energy disco funk. Checking the Lebartone Aces at the door, he borrowed the Sex Bombers from Prince Omo Lawal-Osula and crea..
ELCADOS
2016. On 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'.
LEBARTY AIGBE
2016. In 1979, long-time Highlife veteran Aigbe Lebarty decided to try his hand at high-energy disco funk. Checking the Lebartone Aces at the door, he borrowed the Sex Bombers from Prince Omo Lawal-Osula and created..
S.JOB ORGANISATION
2016. Previously known as SJOB Movement (the name was an acronym representing the members Samuel Spark Abiloye, Johnnie Woode Olimah, Ehima Blackie Ottah and Prince Bolarinwa Agba), S.JOB Organization released th..
APOSTLES
2016. The 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..
APOSTLES
2016. The 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..
FRIIMEN MUSIK COMPANY
2016. By 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, ..