2xLP Gatefold deluxe con libreto de 20 páginas a color con entrevistas e imágenes exclusivas. Fue en la ciudad de Benin, en el corazón de Nigeria; donde había nacido un nuevo híbrido de embriagadora música highlife conocida como Edo Funk. Surgió por primera vez a fines de la década de 1970 cuando un grupo de músicos comenzó experimentar con diferentes formas de integrar elementos de su cultura nativa de Edo y fusionarlos con los nuevos efectos de sonido que vienen de los clubes nocturnos de África Occidental. A diferencia de los años 80 bastante pulidos Producciones disco nigerianas que salen de la internacional metrópolis de Lagos Edo. Se necesitaba alguien para canalizar esta energía en un sonido distintivo. y Sir Victor Uwaifo apareció como un profesor loco con su Joromi estudio. Uwaifo tomó la estructura esquelética de la música Edo e implacable comenzó a fusionarlos con sintetizadores; guitarras eléctricas y racks de efectos de los 80 que dieron como resultado algunos de los Edo más destacados
 
«La composición esquelética y la explotación implacable de sintetizadores, guitarras eléctricas y racks de efectos de los 80 dieron como resultado una bebida psicodélica condimentada conocida como Edo Funk». Fue en la ciudad de Benin, en el corazón de Nigeria, donde nació un nuevo híbrido de música highlife embriagadora conocida como Edo Funk. Surgió por primera vez a fines de la década de 1970 cuando un grupo de músicos comenzó a experimentar con diferentes formas de integrar elementos de su cultura Edo nativa y fusionarlos con nuevos efectos de sonido provenientes de los clubes nocturnos de África Occidental. A diferencia de las pulidas producciones disco nigerianas de la década de 1980 que salían de la metrópolis internacional de Lagos, Edo Funk era crudo y se reducía a su mínima expresión. Se necesitaba a alguien para canalizar esta energía en un sonido distintivo y Sir Victor Uwaifo apareció como un profesor loco con su estudio Joromi. Uwaifo tomó la estructura esquelética de la música Edo y comenzó a fusionarla incansablemente con sintetizadores, guitarras eléctricas y racks de efectos de los 80, lo que dio como resultado algunas de las grabaciones Edo más sobresalientes jamás realizadas. Una infusión explosiva especiada con una extraña nota psicodélica llamada «Edo Funk».
 
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Gatefold 2xLP, Comes with a fantastic full color 20-pages magazine-format booklet containing exclusive pictures and interviews
A great compilation on Analog Africa ‎exploring the Benin City sound between 1980-85.
 
It was in Benin City, in the heart of Nigeria, that a new hybrid of intoxicating highlife music known as Edo Funk was born.
It first emerged in the late 1970s when a group of musicians began to experiment with different ways of integrating elements from their native Edo culture and fusing them with new sound effects coming from West Africa ́s night-clubs. Unlike the rather polished 1980s Nigerian disco productions coming out of the international metropolis of Lagos Edo Funk was raw and reduced to its bare minimum.

Someone was needed to channel this energy into a distinctive sound and Sir Victor Uwaifo appeared like a mad professor with his Joromi studio. Uwaifo took the skeletal structure of Edo music and relentless began fusing them with synthesizers, electric guitars and 80 ́s effect racks which resulted in some of the most outstanding Edo recordings ever made. An explosive spiced up brew with an odd psychedelic note dubbed "Edo Funk".

That's the sound you'll be discovering in the first volume of the Edo Funk Explosion series which focusses on the genre’s greatest originators; Osayomore Joseph, Akaba Man, and Sir Victor Uwaifo:

Osayomore Joseph was one of the first musicians to bring the sound of the flute into the horn-dominated world of highlife, and his skills as a performer made him a fixture on the Lagos scene. When he returned to settle in Benin City in the mid 1970s – at the
invitation of the royal family – he devoted himself to the modernisation and electrification of Edo music, using funk and Afro-beat as the building blocks for songs that weren’t afraid to call out government corruption or confront the dark legacy of Nigeria’s colonial past.

Akaba Man was the philosopher king of Edo funk. Less overtly political than Osayomore Joseph and less psychedelic than Victor Uwaifo, he found the perfect medium for his message in the trance-like grooves of Edo funk. With pulsating rhythms awash in cosmic
synth-fields and lyrics that express a deep personal vision, he found great success at the dawn of the 1980s as one of Benin City’s most persuasive ambassadors of funky highlife.

Victor Uwaifo was already a star in Nigeria when he built the legendary Joromi studios in his hometown of Benin City in 1978. Using his unique guitar style as the mediating force between West-African highlife and the traditional rhythms and melodies of Edo
music, he had scored several hits in the early seventies, but once he had his own sixteen-track facility he was able to pursue his obsession with the synesthetic possibilities of pure sound, adding squelchy synths, swirling organs and studio effects to hypnotic
basslines and raw grooves. Between his own records and his production for other musicians, he quickly established himself as the godfather of Edo funk.

What unites these diverse musicians is their ability to strip funk down to its primal essence and use it as the foundation for their own excursions inward to the heart of Edo culture and outward to the furthest limits of sonic alchemy. The twelve tracks on Edo Funk Explosion Volume 1 pulse with raw inspiration, mixing highlife horns, driving rhythms, day-glo keyboards and tripped-out guitars into a funk experience unlike any other. 
 
A1 Africa Is My Root - Osayomore Joseph And The Creative Seven
A2 Ta Gha Hunsimwen - Akaba Man & The Nigie Rokets
A3 Popular Side - Akaba Man And The African Pride

B1 Iranm Iran - Sir Victor Uwaifo And His Titibitis
B2 Sakpaide No.2 - Sir Victor Uwaifo And His Titibitis
B3 Ta Ghi Rare - Akaba Man & The Nigie Rokets

C1 My Name Is Money - Osayomore Joseph
C2 Ogbov Omwan - Akaba Man & The Nigie Rokets
C3 Aibalegbe - Sir Victor Uwaifo And His Titibitis

D1 Who No Man - Osayomore Joseph And The Ulele Power Sound
D2 Obviemama - Sir Victor Uwaifo And His Titibitis
D3 Ororo No De Fade - Osayomore Joseph And The Ulele Power Sound