Various Artists Africa - The World Ends: Afro Rock and Psychedelia in 1970s Nigeria [CD]
The World Ends: Afro Rock and Psychedelia in 1970s Nigeria
Various Artists Africa
CD Rel Date: 2010-07-20
The World Ends is the latest title from Soundway Records showcasing a wave of guitar driven and psychedelic groups that sprung up in Nigeria during the early 1970s. Featuring 32 electrifying and Funk laden grooves, this is the sound of a generation attempting to pick up the pieces after the devastation of the Nigerian civil war. Spread over 2 CDs, this bumper collection is brimming with youthful exuberance, fuzzed out guitar and cosmic organ vibes and owes much to the psychedelic sounds of Jim Morrison, Santana, Hendrix, Jefferson Airplane and James Brown. As the summer of love was blossoming in London and San Francisco, Nigeria was imploding into civil war. Also known as the Biafran war of 1967, it was a grisly conflict taking over three million lives yet at the same time as the country was being pulled apart there was a new world beginning. The tracks featured represent a forgotten chapter in Nigeria's musical history when the youth threw their varied morsels into the pot from Hard Rock to Psychedelic Soul when guitars were cherished instruments, symbolic of a new movement, when highlife and Afrobeat played second fiddle to 'the beat'.
Tracklist:
- Nwantinti/Die Die - Ify Jerry Krusade (mono)
- Rough Rider - Hygrades (mono)
- Deiyo Deiyo (Akpuwunlobi) - Hykkers (mono)
- Soundway - Hykkers/Wrinkar Experience (mono)
- Breakthrough - Wrinkars Experience/Funkees (mono)
- Mr. Bull Dog [Original 45 Version] - Funkees/The Mebusas
- Don't Take Me for a Ride - Foundars 15/The Mebusas
- Eti Ufok - Ceejebs/The Founders 15 (mono)
- Yem Efe - Ceejebs/Tony Grey Super 7
- Akwa Kayi Ji Bia Nuwa - Tony Grey Super 7/The Identicals
- Blacky Joe - P.R.O./The Identicals
- Oli Nkwu - Cicada/P.R.O.
- Life's Gone Down Low - Cicada/The Lijadu Sisters
- Ikoko - Eppi Fanio/The Lijadu Sisters
- All Night Long - Bongos Ikwue
- Babalawo - The Thermometers
- Ottoto Shamoleda - Colomach
- World Ends, The - The Black Mirrors
- Isi Agboncha - Semi Colon
- Money That's What I Want - Lawrence Amavi Group
- Somebody's Gotta Lose or Win - Hygrades (mono)
- In Concert - Ofege
- Chokoi & Oreje - The Elcados
- Ohomi - Sonny Okosuns & Paperback Limited/Sonny Okosuns/Paperbac
- Be Kind, Be Foolish, Be Happy - Voices of Darkness/Chuck Barrist
- Ugbo Ndoma - Reme Izabebo's Music Research/Tony Grey & The Magni
- Same Man [Ayamayama], The - The Action 13/Reme Izabebo's Music R
- Active Action - Action 13/The Action 13/The Actions (mono)
- Kpokposikposi - The Actions/The Strangers (mono)
- Onye Ije - The Comrades/The Strangers (mono)
- Bullwalk - The Comrades/Ofo The Black Company
- Egwu Aja - Ofo The Black Company