Artist: Various artists
Title: ria Soul Power 70 - Afro-Funk, Afro-Rock, Afro-Disco
Year Of Release: 2019
Label: Soul Jazz Records
Genre: Afro-Funk, Afro-Rock, Afro-Disco
Quality: MP3 320 kbps; 16-bit/44.1kHz FLAC; 24-bit/96 kHz Vinyl
Total : 1:14:33
Total Size: 189; 444; 873 MB

Showcasing the influence of funk, rock and disco on rian music during the 1970s.

"Originally released as a nowlong- out-of-print collectors' 7" box, this fully expanded album release now also includes extra tracks from Sonny Okosuns, Wings, Chief Kollington Ayinla and more. While for many people the fusion of funk and jazz music with rian rhythms and aesthetics began with Fela Kuti and his afro-beat sound, in fact this can be traced further back to the phenomena of the 1960s rian artists and house bands in nightclubs and hotels who interpreted US soul and pop music with a local flavour and none more so than Geraldo Pino, the 'African James Brown' who features heavily in this collection. Other similarly inspired rian funk and soul artists featured here included Tony Grey and his Ozimba Messengers and Don Bruce and The Angels.

'ria Soul Power 70' includes a number of tracks from the group Wings originally known as BAF (Biafran Air Force) Wings, an army band formed during the Biafran civil war in ria. The groups' heavy mixture of funk, rock and African styles was popular among many rian groups at the . Beneath the shadow of the few rian artists who signed international recording deals in the 1970s - Fela Kuti, King Sunny Ade, Chief Ebenezer Obey - lies of vast wealth of largely undiscovered musical transmutation and cultural cross-pollination and included here are heavy afro-funk/rock and disco tracks from artists such as the legendary Sonny Okosuns as well as rare cuts from little-known outside of ria - groups such as Colomach and MFB. Most of these obscure artists signed to major labels in ria in the commercial slipstream that opened up as Philips, Decca and EMI tried to emulate the international success of the big three international rian artists.

Finally featured here is Kollington Ayinla, one of the co-founders of rian Fuji music, who gives us perhaps the heaviest of all tracks on this album. Ayinla is the great moderniser of the Fuji sound and in the late 1970s began adding Bata drums and synthesizers to his authentic music to create a powerful and heavy new fusion of traditional and modernist aesthetics, embracing both new technology and expentation while rooted firmly in rian historical lineage."

Tracklist:
01. Geraldo Pino - Shake Hands (4:43)
02. Sonny Okosuns Ozziddi - Dance Of The Elephants (7:28)
03. The Wings - We'll Get Home (3:51)
04. Alhaji (Chief) Prof. Kollington Ayinla - E Ye Ika Se (3:21)
05. Colomach - Kassa Kpa Sama Kpa (3:38)
06. Geraldo Pino - Heavy Heavy Heavy (6:25)
07. MFB - Beware (2:26)
08. Tony Grey and The Ozimba Messengers - You Are The One (7:20)
09. Sonny Okosuns Ozziddi - Oba Erediauwa (6:18)
10. The Wings - Single Boy (3:58)
11. Geraldo Pino - Power To The People (5:41)
12. Original Wings - Igba Alusi (7:03)
13. Don Bruce and The Angels - Sugar Baby (6:33)
14. Geraldo Pino - Africans Must Unite (5:48)

New! - 2017 ria Soul Power 70 24-96 FLAC.rar - 873.6 MB
2019 ria Soul Power 70 - Afro-Funk, Afro-Rock, Afro-Disco 16-44,1 FLAC.RAR - 445.4 MB
2019 ria Soul Power 70 - Afro-Funk, Afro-Rock, Afro-Disco 16-44,1 MP3.RAR - 189.9 MB



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