Various Artists - Togo Soul 2 / VARIOUS - VINYL LP

Originally released in 1976, Ubok Aka Inua is the fifth album by legendary Nigerian saxophonist and band leader, Etubom Rex Williams. The album features Psychedelic Shoes and One Woman Is Enough Trouble, both heard on countless funk and soul compilations. The album was restored from the original tapes by Noah Mintz and artwork restored and recreated by Steve Lewin. InchEtubom Rex Williams occupies the genuine space of legend of Nigerian Highlife. His incredible professionalism, vast body of work and huge personality, established him as a veritable force of the genre quite early in his career. A case quite similar to another teenage prodigy of Highlife Music, Sir Victor Uwaifo. However any accolades he earned were well deserved and based on a of hard graft and genuine love for his art. He like Uwaifo, straddles the Inter-generational gap between the old masters of Highlife such as Bobby Benson, E. C. Arinze, Inyang Henshaw, Dr Victor Olaiya etc and the latter generation of Eddy Okweddy, Orlando Owoh, Tunji Oyelana, Eric Akaeze, Osayomore Joseph et al. Inch - Ed Keazor, Music in Africa1. Ubok Aka Inua2. Nwa Anwanwa3. Psychedelic Shoes4. One Woman Is Enough Trouble5. Uwa Idem Mi Part Two6. Ama Mbre Ewa Album Tracks 1. Ubok Aka Inua 2. Nwa Anwanwa 3. Psychedelic Shoes 4. One Woman Is Enough Trouble 5. Uwa Idem Mi (Part Two) 6. Ama Mbre Ewa

When Tramp Records was founded, there really were very few ways in which the music lover could discover new music besides the traditional methods of digging, good luck, and inheritance. First there were torrent sites such as Napster and Limewire where generous collectors might digitize and upload portions of their accessions, and sometimes you could find entire radio show broadcasts of live vinyl curation made by real Disc Jockeys out there, a lot of the Deep Funk I heard for the first time in around 1999 I found this way via Disc Jockeys on radio shows from the UK, tunes were faded and mixed together and of course veiled with that unmistakable Mp3 'whoosh'. And unless you have been living as an off-grid hermit for the past 20 years, you know the rest of the story.But though our world has changed, and even though everyone from our grandparents to our 5-year old nieces are curating their own internet playlists, I submit that the role of DJ has become even more vital, not less. We as a culture have always relied on our Disc Jockeys to introduce us to sounds that speak to their souls, to control the vibe and most importantly put forth the narrative that speaks to society as a whole. DJs are our tribal storytellers, and the music they bring us are the stories. And when a DJ like Tobias Kirmayer is telling us that story clearly and with conviction, it speaks to our souls as well.'Countdown to... SOUL' is a compilation series that, much like Tramp Records' other critically-acclaimed comps such as Movements, Feeling Nice, and the Praise Poems Series' examines a unique facet of the Golden Era of Soul, Funk, Jazz and R&B. Perhaps, in this case the dawning of the Soul era, 'proto-soul', 'primitive soul', or even 'pre-soul' if you will. When they were recorded, many of these tunes were still firmly ensconced in the Black Radical Jazz tradition, but there was a change in the air,

Album Tracks 1. Aretha Franklin - Try a Little Tenderness 2. Sam Cooke - (What a) Wonderful World 3. Marvin Gaye & the Vandellas - Stubborn Kind of Fellow 4. Otis Redding - These Arms of Mine 5. Ann Peebles - I Can't Stand the Rain 6. Aaron Neville - Hercules 7. Al Green - Let's Stay Together 8. Ben E. King - Stand By Me 9. Etta James - I Just Want to Make Love to You 10. Bob & Earl - Harlem Shuffle 11. Gwen McCrae - 90% of Me Is You 12. Syl Johnson - I Hate I Walked Away 13. Barry White - Ghetto Letto 1. Stevie Wonder - Contract on Love 2. Ray Charles - Unchain My Heart 3. James Brown & the Famous Flames - Please, Please, Please 4. Dionne Warwick - Don't Make Me Over 5. Timmy Thomas - Why Can't We Live Together 6. George McCrae - Rock Your Baby 7. Curtis Mayfield - She Don't Let Nobody (But Me) 8. Aloe Blacc & King Most - with My Friends 9. Greyboy & Quantic Feat. Sharon Jones - Got to Be a Love (Paul Nice Remix) 10. Nostalgia 77 Feat. Alice Russell - Seven Nation Army 11. Ibeyi - River 12. Terry Callier & Paul Weller - Brother to Brother 13. Al Jarreau - Ain't No Sunshine