I was in the mood for some Juju tonight so I decided to rip us
this sweet album by Chief Ebenezer Obey. Being an English release,
I have the feeling it is adapted to European standards a bit, the
songs are shorter and have pauses in between. Still, nothing can go
wrong, Juju is simply sweet. I find it irresistible.

tracks;

1 Miliki
2 Ojeje
3 Je ka jo
4 Don’t say no
5 Abente
6 Poto poto
7 Paga
8 Alo mi

Being a blogger you keep learning things all the time.
Today we found out that very long titles sometimes frustrate
the process. I now understand why I was unable to rip this LP
before. It has all titles at the A-side glued together and at
the B-side, same story. So I wrote all titles in a row but
Winamp-Pro that I use to rip with, could also not handle this.
Now I found out what caused it I can finally post this LP.

Here’s another great album of Juju music from Nigeria.
Chief Commander Ebenezer Obey & his Inter-Reformers Band,
( Africans don’t like short names ) comes in at Global Groove.
Track 1 contains 6 songs in one, track 2 same thing, enjoy this.
Juju is sweet !

tracks;

1 – Igba owuro lawa
– – Agogo ti nka wakati
– – Ma jeki a pade agbako
– – E se amin ko se
– – Ai so aba
– – Alhaji fatai irawo
2 – Eiye to ba fara wegun
– – E jeki a se adura
– – Ori mi ma gbagbe
– – Keregbe to fo
– – Alhaji azeez arisekola
– – Alhaji agboola alausa

I remember very well when this album came out in 1982.
For most of us West Europeans it must have been the first
encounter with Juju. For me it was. I fel in love with this
music straight away. Have you heard it ?

tracks;

1 Ja funmi
2 Eje nlo gba ara mi
3 Mo beru agba
4 Sunny ti de ariya
5 Ma jaiye oni
6 365 is my number / the message
7 Samba / e falabe lewe

From Nigeria here’s another fine piece of Juju, ‘King Sunny Ade’
is back with a smile. How do you like his new dresses ?
On the previous Sunny Ade rip I made the mistake to add skips
manually, I did not make that mistake again.
The first side of the album aswell as the second are like
one big track, I thaught I’d better leave it that way.

tracks;

1 Osupa mi tole – Bi ko seni akii gbon – Ibi lero siwa – Ota ile pada lehin mi
2 Ara nfu mi – Oro fi sibe – T’oluwa ni o se – Alhaji abudu amoo ( Shola motors )

This compilation contains several African styles.
Soukous, like ‘Tchico’ for instance, Chimurenga, ‘Four Brothers’,
#’s 3-5 are from Tanzania, Afro-Cuban by ‘Etoile de Dakar
( with young ‘Youssou N’Dour’ ), Juju with ‘King Sunny’
Better start dancing already !

tracks;

1 Orchestra Makassi – Mambo Bado
2 The Four Brothers – Rudo Imoto
3 Fadhili William – Malaika
4 Pichen & Tsotsi – Pole Musa
5 Fadhili William – Taxi Driver
6 The Four Brothers – Tsiga Mureza
7 Tchico – Jeannot
8 Pablo Lubadika Porthos – Madeleina
9 African Brothers Band – Me Poma
10 Somo Somo – Mosese 2000
11 Thomas Mapfumo – Juanita
12 Orchestra Mazembe – Mbanda ya Mobange
13 Bopol – Samedi Soir
14 Rochereau – Gagner gagner
15 Miriam Makeba – Pata Pata
16 Etoile de Dakar – N’guiro na
17 King Sunny Adé – Penkele
18 Patrick Mkwamba & the Four Brothers – Vambozha Vauya

From Nigeria we have here, King Sunny Adé and his African Beats,
this is Juju music, a laydback smooth type of African music with hummingtalkingdrums, steeley guitars and mellow voices. It’s incredible to hear
18 people play like ONE, beautiful. Ajoo was also released in a European
cut which is very different from this African release. One sidenote; The first
3 numbers are melted together as if they are one, it was very difficult to
cut it into 3 numbers, considering the fact I don’t understand a word they
sing here, I am SURE I cut them completely wrong, please forgive me.

tracks;

1 Ajo ni mo re
2 Pegan pegan
3 Oluwa lagboju le
4 Gbeyo gbeyo
5 Penkele
6 Ewele
7 Tolongo