Soul Jazz Records Presents - Nigeria Freedom Sounds - COMPACT DISCS [CD]

Soul Jazz Records' Apala Apala Groups in Nigeria 1967-70 is the first ever collection of Apala music to be released outside of Nigeria. The album focusses on a wide selection of recordings made in Nigeria in the 1960s, a time when Apala music was at the height of it's popularity. Album Tracks 1. Ewure Ile Komoyi Ode 2. Aboyin Ile 3. Adura Fun Osiwowo 4. Orin to Mo Gbon Wa 5. Agilinti Lomu 6. Abd Alawiye 7. Asa Ko Gbodo Wole Gbeiyele 8. Egbe Arowolo 9. Rufai Baolgun 10. Kiniun Kuro Leran Amu Sere 11. S Aka 12. Lekele Bale 13. Odale Ore 14. Oko Lolomo 15. Oriki Ibeji 16. Omo Olobi 17. Orin Aje 18. Sunday Babayemi

Soul Jazz Records' Nigeria Soul Power 70 album showcases the influence of funk, rock and disco on Nigerian music during the 1970s. Originally released as a now-long-out-of-print collectors' 7' RSD box, this fully expanded album now also includes extra tracks from Sonny Okosuns, Wings, Chief Kollington Ayinla and more. While for many people the fusion of funk and jazz music with Nigerian rhythms and aesthetics began with Fela Kuti and his afro-beat sound, in fact this can be traced further back to the phenomena of the 1960s Nigerian artists and house bands in nightclubs and hotels who interpreted US soul and pop music with a local flavour and none more so than Geraldo Pino, the 'African James Brown' who features heavily in this collection. Other similarly inspired Nigerian funk and soul artists featured here included Tony Grey and his Ozimba Messengers and Don Bruce and The Angels. Nigeria Soul Power 70 includes a number of tracks from the group Wings originally known as BAF (Biafran Air Force) Wings, an army band formed during the Biafran civil war in Nigeria. The groups' heavy mixture of funk, rock and African styles was popular among many Nigerian groups at the time. Beneath the shadow of the few Nigerian artists who signed international recording deals in the 1970s ' Fela Kuti, King Sunny Ade, Chief Ebenezer Obey ' lies of vast wealth of largely undiscovered musical transmutation and cultural cross-pollination, and included here are heavy afro-funk/rock and disco tracks from artists such as the legendary Sonny Okosuns as well as rare cuts from little-known outside of Nigeria - groups such as Colomach and MFB. Most of these obscure artists signed to major labels in Nigeria in the commercial slipstream that opened up as Philips, Decca and EMI tried to emulate the international success of the big three international Nigerian artists. Finally featured here is Kolling

Album Tracks 1. Toccato V 2. Ricercare in G FBWV 3. Fantasia Sopra VT Re Mi Fa Sol la FBWV 201 4. Wir Glauben All An Einen Gott 5. Toccata in C 6. Partita Was Gott Tut, Das Ist Wohlgetan 7. Canzona V 8. Toccata III 9. Chaccone in F 10. Aria Sub Elevatatione 11. Par L'etreinte 12. Allegro Di Molto 13. Andante Di Molto 14. Minuetto 15. Io Sono la Madre - Aldo Orvieto 16. Mattino Di Luce, Sole Di Giustizia - Aldo Orvieto