The album presented tonight was reguested by one of our visitors.
Prince Nico Mbarga was luckily married, as you can hear in track
one of this LP. Who knows another African artist with a Mercedes
almost like this one ?

tracks;

1 Lucky marriage
2 Nnwa di mma
3 Welcome
4 Aye yi mole

Second LP by the great Oliver de Coque at this page is this one.
The title is more or less the same but this one is from 1977.
First side contains two tracks although they appear to be one. I
didn’t try to devide them, chanceless if I would.
Don’t you just love that outfit ?

tracks;

1 Oje mba ewilo / Odi ili eri aku special
2 The tragedy journey of two friends
3 Oma obi dia

To continue the Tchico Tchicaya story, here’s the second one
with this Victory-picture of Tchico. On the record-fair of this
weekend I found even a fourth. Thumbs up again ’cause it’s
just as nice as the previous one. Enjoy Pambou Tchicaya Tchico.

tracks;

1 Sango sango
2 Vicky Amie ya Rosie
3 From Congo to Nigeria
– de Brazzaville a Lagos
4 Nalali libanda

From Nigeria 1977 comes this album by Oliver de Coque.
The Rough Guide on World Music calls him a classic Highlifer.
I quote; “..the colourful de Coque occupies a unique position
in the highlife pantheon, syncretising classic Congo guitar
into laidback highlife rhythms.”

tracks;

1 Ten commandments
2 Igwe bu ike
3 Anazo eze azo ?
4 Olumo Records Special

Another score from the Recordfair, Juju at it’s best.
Because the artists have melted all songs together, I could
only devide it in two, A-side and B-side.
to know about this album, click on the backsleeve
and read the story underneath the photo.

tracks;

01 – Owuro lawa
—- Juju funky blues
—- Eda T’oluwa ba gbadura fun
—- Awa la l’Eko
—- Mo ni iyawo kan
—- Iyen ma lagbaraju
02 – Ba mi na omo mi
—- E tewo ola
—- Igbekele olorun dun
—- Eyin logo
—- Professor peller

From ’79, our friend Tchico is back.
This is one of the three LP’s I’ve got with the same covers.
Maybe it was hard to get a photographer, either way, it’s a
record worth playing, listen!

tracks;

1 Alexandra – Nwurai
2 l’Heure a sonne
3 Reviens Chouchou

After his huge succes in 1976 with ‘Sweet Mother’, Prince Nico
Mbarga had become indestructible throughout most West African
countrys. I found this LP together with two others, also from ’81.
Family Movement and Lucky Marriage, I’ll post those later.
Poppy kind of Highlife from Nigeria.

tracks;

1 Cool money
2 Another woman’s husband
3 Impossible
4 Afufu uwa

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

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