Wednesday, December 6, 2017

Various - Brand New Wayo : Funk, Fast Times And Nigerian Boogie Badness


Year : 2011
Label : Comb & Razor Sound
Genre : Soul, Disco
Style : Funk/Soul, Boogie

"A Brand New Wayo" brings togheter fifteen songs recorded during the post-afrobeat era, when the nigerian disco explosion occured from the late seventies to the early eighties. The evolution of nigerian society, the end of dictatorship and the short democratic period that followed, gave birth to a freedom artistic which contributed to the developpement of some creative emulation from nigerian producers & musicians. Selected by Uchenna Ikonne for his label "Comb & Razor Sound", all the songs fit into a own musical genre, called the ''Nigerian Boogie'', based on modern dance groove, served by the bass beat of disco funk and connected to the afro spirit (check below "Boys And Girls" ). Titles include songs from Mixed Grill, Murphy Williams, Joe Moks, Bayo Damazio, Martha Ulaeto...


DISC 1 : Mixed Grill - A Brand New Wayo / Kris Okotie - Show Me Your Backside / Murphy Williams - Get On Up / Joe Moks - Boys And Girls / Amas - Slow Down / Oby Onyioha - I Want To Feel Your Love / Dizzy K. Falola - Excuse Me Baby / Chris Mba - Funky Situation 

DISC 2 : Bayo Damazio - Listen To The Music / Martha Ulaeto - Music Alone / Segun Robert - Big Race / Amel Addmore - Jane / Honey Machine - Pleasure / The Stormmers - Love Or Money Emma Baloka - Let's Love Each Other 

Friday, December 1, 2017

Livy Ekemezie - Friday Night


Year : 2017/1983
Label : Odion Livingstone/Linic Major Production Records
Genre : Disco
Style : Funk/Soul, Boogie

The reissue of nigerian Holy Grail record "Friday Night", entirely arranged, composed and produced by multi-instrumentalist Livy Ekemezie. This "impossible to find" was originally released in 1983 and was never reissued, until the british label "Soundway" decided to bring it up to date, with the song "Holiday Action" (included in the Boogie Disco compilation "Doin' It In Lagos" in 2016). "Friday Night" is the epitome of the original Nigerian disco-funk sound that could be produced in the early '80s, focusing compositions based on powerful bass grooves and heavy keyboards sounds. Titles include the funky insane song "Get It Down", the boogie-woogie anthem "Friday Night" and the brilliant "Delectation" problably inspired from "Superstition" by Stevie Wonder.

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