A few weeks ago, I was looking for news in some Amsterdam
recordstores, and found this album by Muddy Ibe.
I couldn’t find out much about Muddy, anybody who can
fill us in on some details ? He’s been called Captain
Muddy Ibe later and is from Nigeria, is all I know.
I blew the recording of this LP two times, but today I
finally made it. Would you think it’s got anything to do
with a spell Muddy put on it ? He’s waving with some powerful
tool there, you never know.

tracks;

1 Ndi aghogho erike
2 Ezi omlime amaka
3 Kwuo ka ira

Did you like Prince Nico Mbarga ?
This is a special album, the song ‘Sweet Mother’, how strange
this may seem, is the biggest African song of all time.
Not one other African song sold so many copies throughout
the world. It’s not that special on first hearing.
Prince Nico’s music in general however is great, I love it.
And how about you ?

tracks;

1 Sweet mother
2 Wayo inlaw
3 Aki special
4 Christiana

Prince Nico Mbarga scored his first huge hit in 1976 with the song
‘Sweet Mother’, this album was originally released one year later,
in 1977. The copy we have here is a ‘Rounder’ re-release from 1982.
I quote a line from the backcover; “…if you don’t start dancing
five minutes into the first song, check your pulse to ascertain
whether you’re still alive…”
This is African music with stunning guitarwork and great rhythm.

tracks;

1 Free education in Nigeria
2 Onye ori obi
3 Simplicity
4 Nature

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

This here LP contains some classic Nigerian Highlife.
Quite hard to find material from Nigeria’s 70’s, I was
lucky many years ago. At first it seems they still have to
get warm but then it starts to run smooth after a while.
It’s the type of record that gets better the more you play it.
I aleady Love it ! Don’t miss this one.

tracks;

1 Peace movement social club of Nigeria
2 Shakara school girl
3 Olu ugbo ( operation feed the nation )
4 Men of today

I got lucky, just as I finished making the previous post, the sun
broke through, and I managed to take my pics.
So here’s Olatunji from Nigeria with some nice Highlife.
Get that party going !
“I am the drum,
you are the drum,
and we are the drum.
Because the whole world
revolves in rhythm, and
rhythm is the soul of life,
for everything that we do in
life is in rhythm.”

Babatunde Olatunji

tracks;

1 Saturday Night Limbo
2 Ojo Davis
3 Ashafa
4 Bo-Su-Aye
5 Someday
6 Lady Kennedy
7 Dye ko dide
8 Eyo – sese
9 African waltz
10 Totofioko

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 )

Another dancecollector with mixed types of African music.
Soukous and Highlife.
Hope you like it !

tracks;

1 Bibi Den’s Tchibayi – The best ambience
2 Bibi Den’s Tchibayi – Sawambe
3 Bibi Den’s Tchibayi – Elisa Kouadio
4 Super Mazembe Orchestra – Shauri Yako
5 Pat Thomas – Asante Kotoko
6 Tchico – Nostalgie d’Afrique
7 Tchico – Au revoir Adely
8 Tchico – Detty love
9 Tchico – Sané Mamadou
10 Tchico – Veronica linda
11 Super Sweet Talks – Twerno

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