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Now comes nigeria special volume 2, an album of modern highlife, afro sounds and nigerian blues 19706, which provides a further rousing reminder of the musical revolution that swept across. Top 50 albums of 2018 1 and it featured bob dylan on the. With a four panel digipack case, a well written and informative booklet and 2 discs of impossibly rare music, excellently mastered for cd reissue, this is an absolute bargain. A wonderful and intelligently compiled collection of nigerian electric highlife and afro rock from the early 1970s. It traces the music from west africa to london, adding elements of jazz, mambo and calypso along the way and paving the way for the afro sounds of the 1970s. Since 2002, soundway records has been synonymous with high quality and groundbreaking compilations of music from africa, the caribbean and south america.
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