Nigeria 70: Sweet Times 2LP + CD
A landmark collection that remains a compelling journey into a time and place: Nigeria in the 1970s, when American soul and funk (along with Anglo-American blues-rock and psychedelia) infected the roots of traditional and popular West African musical styles like highlife, juju, fuji, and apala.ā Dusted magazine Strut announce a brand new repress of the third instalment in the pioneering āNigeria 70ā compilation series, compiled by series curator Duncan Brooker. Excavating another choice batch of rare grooves from Nigeriaās label archives, the new edition places the spotlight on some of the deeper fusions happening across the country during the 1970s as traditional guitar highlife blended with jazz and funk, hypnotic juju grooves became more progressive and young Nigerian bands came through with their own heavy West African take on U.S. soul, funk, disco and rock. As within much of the āNigeria 70ā album series, all of the featured selections are previously unissued outside of Nigeria. Tracks range from the dynamite big band workout of Alex Ringoās Moneyman & The Super 5 International to the Congolese guitar-drenched āHenriettaā by the late Ali Chukwumah, former member of Stephen Osita Osadebeās Sound Makers. Darker psych grooves from Don Isaac Ezekiel sit alongside a languorous highlife jam by the legendary Victor Olaiya and juju legend Ebenezer Obey cooks up a lilting, deeply beautiful mid-tempo groove from 1970 in a musical plea for peace. āNigeria 70: Sweet Timesā is another essential celebration of the glut of incredible music that surfaced in post-independence Nigeria. This is the third edition in the acclaimed āNigeria 70ā series. The first volume, released in 2001, was the first compilation of its kind to explore in depth the myriad of funk and soul fusions emerging from Nigeria during the 1970s. Strut followed this with a second edition, āNigeria 70: Lagos Jumpā, in 2008. āNigeria 70ā Sweet Timesā is compiled by Duncan Brooker and features extensive sleeve n
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A landmark collection that remains a compelling journey into a time and place: Nigeria in the 1970s, when American soul and funk (along with Anglo-American blues-rock and psychedelia) infected the roots of traditional and popular West African musical styles like highlife, juju, fuji, and apala.ā Dusted magazine Strut announce a brand new repress of the third instalment in the pioneering āNigeria 70ā compilation series, compiled by series curator Duncan Brooker. Excavating another choice batch of rare grooves from Nigeriaās label archives, the new edition places the spotlight on some of the deeper fusions happening across the country during the 1970s as traditional guitar highlife blended with jazz and funk, hypnotic juju grooves became more progressive and young Nigerian bands came through with their own heavy West African take on U.S. soul, funk, disco and rock. As within much of the āNigeria 70ā album series, all of the featured selections are previously unissued outside of Nigeria. Tracks range from the dynamite big band workout of Alex Ringoās Moneyman & The Super 5 International to the Congolese guitar-drenched āHenriettaā by the late Ali Chukwumah, former member of Stephen Osita Osadebeās Sound Makers. Darker psych grooves from Don Isaac Ezekiel sit alongside a languorous highlife jam by the legendary Victor Olaiya and juju legend Ebenezer Obey cooks up a lilting, deeply beautiful mid-tempo groove from 1970 in a musical plea for peace. āNigeria 70: Sweet Timesā is another essential celebration of the glut of incredible music that surfaced in post-independence Nigeria. This is the third edition in the acclaimed āNigeria 70ā series. The first volume, released in 2001, was the first compilation of its kind to explore in depth the myriad of funk and soul fusions emerging from Nigeria during the 1970s. Strut followed this with a second edition, āNigeria 70: Lagos Jumpā, in 2008. āNigeria 70ā Sweet Timesā is compiled by Duncan Brooker and features extensive sleeve n
