Various The World Ends 2cd

2cd
2010/197x
new
Explosive, mean & lean fuzz-funk that expressed a combination of urbanity, political bitterness, social disenfranchisement, and also the (always) fragile hope of beautiful sound. One of the stories about Lagos music in the 70s that doesn't get told quite so often is the effect that the Nigerian-Biafran war had on musicians. Proliferation of highlife turned to fragmentation into Igbo vs. Yoruba vs. Hausa musical styles, and on top of that younger people were getting stoked on James Brown & platform shoes while older folks still remembered big bands with tons of horns. And then a civil war broke out over the discovery of oil. Leave it to Miles Cleret to get the job done for real. As Eppi Fanio wrote in his 1975 liner notes, "Neglect the mind, the world becomes a deadly mass of dud, without any colour nor brilliance. Encourage the mind, the world becomes all excitement, all exuberance". Tracklisting: Ify Jerry Krusade-Nwantinti/Die Die, Hygrades-Rough Rider, Hykkers-Dieyo Deiyo, Wrinkar Experience-Soundway, Funkees-Breakthrough, Mebusas-Mr. Bull Dog, Foundars 15-Don't Take Me for a Ride, Ceejebs-Eti Ufok, Tony Grey Super 7-Yem Efe, Identicals-Akwa Kayi Ji Bia Nuwa, PRO-Blacky Joe, Cicada-Oli Nkwu, Lijadu Sisters-Life's Gone Down Low, Eppi Fanio-Ikoko, Bongos Ikwue-All Night Long, Thermometers-Babalawa, Colomach-Ottoto Shamoleda, Black Mirrors-The World Ends, Semi Colon-Isi Agboncha, Lawrence Amavi Group-Money That's What I Want, Hygrades-Somebody's Gotta Lose Or Win, Ofege-In Concert, Ceejebs-Eti Ufok, Elcados-Chokoi & Oreje, Sonny Okosuns & Paperback Limited-Ohomi, Chuck Barrister & Voices of Darkness-Be Kind Be Foolish Be Happy, Tony Grey & the Magnificent Zeinians-Ugbo Ndoma, Reme Izabo's Music Research-The Same Man, Action 13-Active Action, Actions-Kpokposikposi, Strangers-Onye Ije, Comrades-Bullwalk, Ofo the Black Company-Egwu Aja.