Various – Edo Funk Explosion Vol. 1
Label: Analog Africa – AALP 091
Series: Analog Africa – No. 31
Format: 2 x Vinyl, LP, Compilation, Stereo
Country: Germany
Released: 2021
Genre: Funk / Soul, Folk, World, & Country
Style: Afrobeat, Highlife
TRACKS:
A1 Osayomore Joseph And The Creative Seven– Africa Is My Root
A2 Akaba Man & The Nigie Rockets– Ta Gha Hunsimwen
A3 Akaba Man And The African Pride– Popular Side
B1 Sir Victor Uwaifo And His Titibitis– Iranm Iran
B2 Sir Victor Uwaifo And His Titibitis– Sakpaide No 2
B3 Akaba Man & The Nigie Rockets– Ta Ghi Rare
C1 Osayomore Joseph– My Name Is Money
C2 Akaba Man & The Nigie Rockets– Ogbov Omwan
C3 Sir Victor Uwaifo And His Titibitis– Aibalegbe
D1 Osayomore Joseph And The Ulele Power Sound– Who No Man
D2 Sir Victor Uwaifo And His Titibitis– Obviemama
D3 Osayomore Joseph And The Ulele Power Sound– Ororo No De Fade
DESCRIPTION
The twelve tracks on Edo Funk Explosion Volume 1 pulse with raw inspiration, mixing highlife horns, driving rhythms, day-glo keyboards and tripped-out guitars into a funk experience unlike any other.
It was in Benin City, in the heart of Nigeria, that a new hybrid of intoxicating highlife music known as Edo Funk was born. It first emerged in the late 1970s when a group of musicians began to experiment with different ways of integrating elements from their native Edo culture and fusing them with new sound effects coming from West Africa´s night-clubs. Unlike the rather polished 1980´s Nigerian disco productions coming out of the international metropolis of Lagos Edo Funk was raw and reduced to its bare minimum.
Someone was needed to channel this energy into a distinctive sound and Sir Victor Uwaifo appeared like a mad professor with his Joromi studio. Uwaifo took the skeletal structure of Edo music and relentless began fusing them with synthesizers, electric guitars and 80´s effect racks which resulted in some of the most outstanding Edo recordings ever made. An explosive spiced up brew with an odd psychedelic note known as Edo Funk.
That‘s the sound you‘ll be discovering in the first volume of the Edo Funk Explosion series which focusses on the genre’s greatest originators; Osayomore Joseph, Akaba Man, and Sir Victor Uwaifo