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 | THE IGEDE OF NIGERIA features the traditional music of Nigeria's Benue State. It includes funerary songs, social dance music and religious hymns, and is played on instruments that include talking drums, clay pots and calabash trumpets. Recorded in... |
 | Disc 3 in this set features interviews with Ginger Baker, Fela & Femi Kuti, Roy Ayers and others. |
 | Liner Note Author: Max Reinhardt. Nigeria in the 1970's was a hotbed for a myriad of musical movements and hybrids. Asserting its fiercely independent spirit in the wake of colonial rule, the music centered on the country's largest metropolis, Lagos,... |
 | Includes liner notes by Graeme Ewens. |
 | Recorded in 1974. |
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 | Full title: Lagos Stori Plenti: Urban Sounds From Nigeria. |
 | Segun Damisa & The Afro-Beat Crusaders: Segun Damisa (chant); Marc 'Marco' Mouches (alto saxophone); Pierre-Henri Vulliard (tenor saxophone); Yann Grillon (trumpet); Jeremy Ortal (trombone); Rivo Razafindramanitra (bass guitar); Frederic 'Fred'... |
 | For the last few decades, the pop music styles most associated with Nigeria are Juju (as purveyed by its master, King Sunny Ade, aka The Minister of Enjoyment), or Afrobeat, a mutation of Highlife made internationally popular by the great Fela Kuti.... |
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