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Nigeria afrobeat special : the new explosive sound in s Nigeria. Allow this favorite library to be seen by others Keep this favorite library private. Save Cancel. Find a copy in the library Finding libraries that hold this item Some of their most sterling work has dealt with the incendiary, explosive sounds coming out of Nigeria in the s.
The country's ever-simmering tensions have also produced sublime, and influential, music, in recent decades. The music captured here, on Nigeria Special: Volume 2 and Nigeria Afrobeat Special , holds a mirror up to the political and cultural landscape of a country constantly at boiling point, the songs feeling like a necessary explosion, the outcome of some great culture clash between Western hedonism and traditional African morality as it became more and more apparent to the Western world how lucrative the huge reserves of Nigerian oil might be.
With an ugly civil war behind them, the nation was in the ascendancy, possibilities looming large on the horizon. The magpie-like mixing of the sounds of South America, of Cuba and Brazil, with the traditional African sounds birthed in the Congo to create Highlife and latterly Afrobeat, with its blending of various indigenous sounds and American jazz and soul.
Both of these compilations have arrived at a time when the sounds of African music are being embraced more broadly than at any time in the past. In the mainstream, by the likes of Yeasayer, Vampire Weekend, and most recently Fools Gold, and in the burgeoning underground, Saharan desert blues influences to be found all over the blissed-out glo-fi of Toro Y Moi and Ducktails.
Couple this with the rapturous reception received by the latest, and final, collaboration between Ali Farka Toure and Toumani Diabate, as well as the huge success of the likes of Amadou and Mariam and Tinariwen, and the Western thirst for traditional African sounds is being quenched like never before. The fantastic thing about Nigeria Afrobeat Special , and great news for all those Afrobeat afficinados, is that a large portion of these tracks are genuine hidden gems.
Unpolished wonders previously never reissued outside of Nigeria. The journey through Afrobeat presented by Soundway here is intriguing and well worth the effort that so obviously went into it. Pats on the back all round. Davido is considered one of Africa's biggest music stars. His social media request this week had been met with a mixed reception. Some pointed out that the star, who has some 22 million followers on Instagram, often flashes his lavish lifestyle online.
In one Twitter post with laughing emojis, Davido said his aim was to raise money to get his Rolls-Royce car cleared from a port. Twiga Savage was born in Lagos, Nigeria and relocated to London at 11 to pursue her secondary education. Five years later, she began her music career doing backup vocals for artists such as George Michael and Mary J. Inspired by the growth of the Nigerian music industry, Savage moved back to Lagos and signed with Mavin Records in Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consectetur adipiscing elit.
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