One of our visitors brought to our attention that King Sunny
Adé turned 69 five days ago. He asked me to post another
of his albums and it just so happened this one was waiting
to find it’s way to you. It was meant to be I guess so get it,
spread it and enjoy listening to Syncro Chapter 1..

tracks;

01 – Synchro feelings
02 – Oba adeyemi ( alafin oyo )

The last post of Nigerian highlife must have been in the month
of may this year. About time to continue that story, don’t you think ?
Let’s see, the group we have here is one we had on earlier occasions.
You’ll find about five other albums using our search-bar on the left.
Always satifactory sound if you’re into Nigerian music. Ikenga
on Rogers All Stars, probably from 1976, a must have..

tracks;

01 – African unity
02 – Nigeria operation feed the nation
03 – Shakara school girl

Some time ago we had volume two, today it’s volume one’s turn.
I.K. Dairo is the man who’s juju is now called Ashiko music, after
it’s old and original name. Playing guitar, talking drum and acor-
deon and singing in various languages he is the group’s main
man. After a firm cleaning the vinyl sounds as good as
new so get it & spread like you’re used to.

tracks;

01 – Odun to wole odun ire
02 – Eko nile ayo
03 – Se ni ma bimo lemo
04 – Eba mi tewo adura soke
05 – Jes lalabaro mi
06 – Obele mi

Good morning groovers, can I ask for your help today ?
We have an album by Orchestra Zib-Hombers of which
I can’t seem to find any decent information. Mabuse,
it’s front man appears to be Congolese but one of our
visitors once suggested they are from a mid African
country like Gabon or Cameroon. The music which
was recorded by Namaco in Nigeria is called Rumba
from Zaïre if you believe suggestions made on Amazon.
The lyrics are sung in French and English. All together
I am a bit confused, Are we dealing with a Congolese
group, they mostly use the term ‘orchestre’ in stead
of ‘orchestra’. Melodies make me believe it is more
highlife than rumba, alhough sleeve says ‘sukus’..
it is most certainly no soukous to my opinion.
their English sounds Nigerian style, but French
is not spoken there if I’m not mistaking, so
who can enlighten us with the right info
and solve this mystery..?

tracks;

01 – l’Amour est aveugle
02 – La vie est compliquée
03 – La plainte d’une femme mariée
04 – Wicked brother

It does have a couple of pops and some scratches,
somewhere over the years it has lost a corner of it’s sleeve.
This album by the great I.K. Dairo has made a journey before
ending up with us. Baba Aladura was his nickname, the very
popular I.K. Dairo played guitar, acordeon and talking drum.
He called his juju ‘ashiko music’ like it used to be called in the
past. This is volume two to begin with, I’ll post the first volume
some time later. Enjoy listening to I.K. Dairo & his Blue Spots
and don’t forget to find the other seven I.K. Dairo lp’s..

tracks;

01 – Okin omo ni
02 – Adupe baba, oseun
03 – Omo owa ijesha
04 – Talo ba mi ri
05 – Labondo
06 – Omo alaro 1972

Two of the greatest artists in highlife combined their forces
on this here album. Ghana’s ‘King of Highlife’, E.T. Mensah
and Nigeria’s ‘Evil Genius of Highlife’, Dr. Victor Olaiya both
have their impressive career and decided to make a record
together. It is from 1984 and contains 7 wonderful songs.
A must have for every lover of the genre, better get
it and spread it as usual, enjoy..

P.S. Also take a look at our very first post,
seven years ago we started the blog with this lp

tracks;

01 – Trumpet highlife
02 – Anyanko goro
03 – Mr. judge
04 – Odofo nuapa
05 – Omolanke
06 – Essi nana
07 – Yabomisa no.2

It is from 1961 on Decca West Africa, this swell collector
of Nigerian and Ghanaian highlife. It contains hits from
both countries in six languages. Nice vatiation in highlife
playing fairly well part from two small pops. Hope you
like’m, get, listen and pass on..

tracks;

01 – Black Beats Band – Amma mere wu
02 – Black Beats Band – Sore be tie’m
03 – E.T. Mensah & his Tempos Band – Me da wo ase
04 – E.T. Mensah & his Tempos Band – Gbaa anokwale
05 – Stargazers Dance Band – Obi nkabi mma’m
06 – Charles Iwegbue & his Archibogs – Gbamigoro
07 – E.C. Arinze & his Music – Ogbuefi nnamdi
08 – E.T. Mensah & his Tempos Band – Ghana- Guinea-Mali
09 – E.T. Mensah & his Tempos Band – Onipa
10 – Black Beats Band – Telephone lobi
11 – Black Beats Band – Nkome nkomo
12 – E.C. Arinze & his Music – Ozo emena
13 – Charles Iwegbue & his Archibogs – River jordan
14 – Stargazers Dance Band – Obra aye me pasaa

They appear first time at the Groove, we never had any of their
work so far. The white Eagles from Nigeria, fortunately they
sound as black as we hoped for. It’s been some time we had
Nigerian highlife but this one can make up for the hiatus.
A twelve man band with subtle sound, hypnotising
groove with astonishing rhythm, dancing tunes
for your hot summer evening parties,
get it, spread it and play it..

tracks;

01 – Buruindi uyakemedein
02 – Sabagreia ebiama
03 – Bibeti biwenighafiri uruololo
04 – White eagles dance time
05 – Sei-oru

We had a couple of his records, Dan Amakye Dede
and his Apllo International Band of Ghana. He started
as composer and treble singer with the Kumapim Royals.
In 1980 he began forming his own group. The first record
they made was “To be a man na wah !”, I have it waiting
for another occasion, it is scratched a little. Today we’ve
got their second album which was a huge succes in 1984.
Recorded in Onitsha, Nigeria. Listen..

tracks;

01 – Jealousy
02 – Yaba
03 – Abusua
04 – Ife anyi chukwu
05 – Mensuro

The album I intended to post last sunday was this one Kwabena.
When going through them I picked the one with more or less
similar front sleeve. Anyway, here is another of their lp’s from
the same year 1978. It is a little bit noisy but I think it’s one
of their better records, Yellow Sisi and Okponku Special
are straight hits and at least worth a couple of
spins, enjoy doing so..

tracks;

01 – Awisaah
02 – Yellow sisi
03 – Okwan da ma mini
04 – Okponku special