Let’s have us a little more Highlife from Nigeria.
Igbo Highlife that is with the great Oliver de Coque.
I especially like the harmony’s on this album, blended
with Oliver’s Congo style guitar, another Nigerian killer.
Sorry for the many crackles and snaps.

tracks;

1 Engirigbo
2 Ife gadi nma na Nigeria
3 Klub nationale
– Uwa bu ofu mbia

Pambou Tchicaya Tchico is back with another album from his
Nigerian period. Tchico’s albums are hot already but these
are even hotter. This is the fifth album with more or less
the same cover. Well, as long as the music is this good,
who cares? What can I say? Fantastic Tchico
is simply Fantastic.

tracks;

1 Méditation
2 Mieux vaut tard que jamais
3 Lettre ouverte à mon époux
4 Zebola

If it’s your birthday today, then this one’s for you !
And if it’s not, you may take it too, one specific visitor
must feel like it’s his birthday cause he requested for this album.
My favorite track is no 3, listen and pick your own.

tracks;

1 Happy birthday
2 Adam & Eve
3 Love and unity for Africa
4 Sickness

Lets go bazerk for once, and post two albums by this super group
in a row. This one goes back three years and is is from 1978.
What sweet rhythms, what funky guitars, I love it!
Unfortunately it has a few little jumps, sorry it’s an oldie.

tracks;

1 Ibezim ako
2 Elu rie ala rie

Oriental Brothers Band from Nigeria scored hit after hit
in the seventies. This one is from 1981 but it rocks your
socks off. These rhythms take you on a journey across
the floor, let your feet go..hips loose, volume up..

tracks;

1 Jide nkegi
2 Omenma special

This Prince Nico Mbarga album was brought out with at least two
different covers. The one we have here is on Pathe/EMI, the small
photo shows the original RAS cover. Either way, I think this LP
‘rocks’, maybe that’s why they wrote their name like this.

tracks;

1 Another woman’s husband
2 Remember
3 Rosa
4 Abortion
5 Salani
6 Afufu uwa
7 Nature
8 Roraghabe

Sam Mangwana, the Pigeon Voyageur, left Congo in 1976 and formed
the African All Stars in Abidjan. On this LP we hear only Stars,
Dizzy Mandjekou – Solo guitar,
Lokassa Ya Mbongo – Rhythm guitar
Kanyama ‘Ringo’ Moya Lotula – Drums
Syran Mbenza – 2nd Solo guitar
Bopol Mansiamina – Bass
Pablo Lubadika Porthos – Bass
David Diambouana – Saxophone
Tidiane – Saxophone
Sam Mangwana – Vocal
The music is in fact Congolese but being recorded in West Africa,
it has a more uptempo Nigerian-like sound with certain Highlife
elements. I saw this LP somewhere before but could not resist
ripping it oncemore, enjoy it !

tracks;

1 Matinda
2 Zamba y’Africa
3 Djamo djamo
4 Est ce que ça tourne ?

Chief Stephen Osita Osadebe is back at the GG with a sweet
album. His music gets you hypnotized and in cool trance.
Better don’t listen to me, listen to Stephen Osita Osadebe!

tracks;

1 Makojo
– Egwu ogolo
2 Abube 85 oghiagha
– Okugbalu afia onitsha

On one of my last recordhunts I found this LP by T.P. Orchestre Poly
Rythmo of the Peoples Republic of Benin. African groups love long names.
And we love their music, they truly honour their name by delivering
this super rhythmic highlife. The second side starts kinda abrupt,
sorry but it has little damage. Fantastic dancing material.

tracks;

1 Special Festac 77 in Nigeria A-side
2 Special Festac 77 in Nigeria B-side

In this series of Tchicaya Tchico in Nigeria, we already saw a few
here at the GG. This one is from 1983 and delivers 4 songs with
quite some contrast. It has a few of those typical guitar parts with
Tchico’s superb sound effects, enjoy this. I have the idea they
misspelled the title a bit, a previous Tchico was called, ‘Le Retour
des Évadés de Ponton La Belle’. BTW I replaced all dead links,
all twenty are now hosted by Mediafire and working properly.
Please keep reporting any dead links you find and I shall replace
them ASAP. Thanks everybody for your help! I just need to
repost the 5 Juju albums that I removed completely,
we’re getting there.
tracks;

1 Salima
2 Retrait deuil
3 Rosalie
4 Adieu H.L.