African Music (Vertigo, 1983) [FLAC] {MKOP} torrent

African Music (Vertigo, 1983) [FLAC] {MKOP}

''Highlife Music compilation of recordings between 1971 - 1982''

It took the Dutch to assemble a decent compilation of Nigerian highlife, the r&b-ish horn-and-guitar music that came over from Kenya with founding father E.T. Mensah in the '50s. Less brassily arranged than Congolese rumba, these four-minute classics from the style's masters skip all over the past decade-plus yet mesh as gentle pop epiphanies for untrained ears. Many feature sax solos almost as laggardly as the gritty, half-conversational singing exemplified by patriarch Dr. Victor Olaiya. Both elements pulling against effervescent guitar hooks and the lift of multiple drums in indigenous patterns I couldn't begin to specify, with the pleasinigly received guitar solos occupying a middle ground where the music resolves. Though such generalizations don't hint at the reggae side trips and rock steals and best-selling vocals also present, they do sum up the music's sky-above-mud-below tension--an animistic charge that doesn't demand a literal belief in anybody's or anything's soul. ~robertchristgau

01. Sir Victor Uwaifo & His Melody Maestroes - Ekassa 24 (Kirikisi)
02. Gentleman Mike Ejeagha & His Premier Dance Band - Obiako Nnwam (Omenani No.2)
03. Chief Stephen Osita Osadebe - Onu Kwulunjo
04. Victor Awaifo And The Titibitis - Five Days A Week Love
05. Dr Victor Olaiya - Ewa
06. Cardinal Rex Lawson & His Majors Band Of Nigeria - Tamuno Bo Ibro Ma
07. Chief Stephen Osita Osadebe & His Nigeria Sound Makers International - Odindu Nyuliba
08. Prince Nico Mbarga And His New Rocafil Jazz - Let Them Say
09. Celestine Ukwu & His Philosophers National - Igede (Part 1)
10. Dr. Victor Olaiya & His International All Stars Band - Mo Fe Mu'yan
11. Martha Ulaeto - Ndito Isong Amana Nyin

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