The World Ends: Afro Rock and Psychedelia in 1970s Nigeria
Various - Africa
LP Rel Date: 2010-07-30
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. 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:
- Babalawo - The Thermometers
- Ottoto Shamoleda - Colomach
- World Ends, The - The Black Mirrors
- [Ayamayama] The Same Man - Reme Izabebo's Music Research
- Money That's What I Want - Lawrence Amavi Group
- Somebody's Gonna Lose or Win - Hygrades
- In Concert - Ofege
- Chokoi & Oreje - The Elcados
- Ohomi - Sonny Okosuns & Paperback Limited
- Be Kind, Be Foolish, Be Happy - Voices of Darkness/Chuck Barrist
- Active Action - Action 13
- Kpokposikposi - The Actions
- Onye Ije - The Strangers
- Bullwalk - The Comrades
- Egwu Aja - Ofo The Black Company
- You've Got to Try - T-Fire
- Ugbo Ndoma - Tony Grey & The Magnificent Zeinians
- Isi Agboncha - Semi Colon
- Straight to My Heart - Voices of Darkness/Celestine Nyam