Various Artists - The World Ends Afro Rock and Psychedelia in 1970s Nigeria

The World Ends Afro Rock and Psychedelia in 1970s Nigeria

Various Artists

Available Formats No. of Tracks   Price Buy
CD Double Album 32 tracks £12.99
Download Album (mp3) 32 tracks £8.99
Download Album (flac) 32 tracks £8.99
Download individual tracks N/A from £0.99

Various Artists - The World Ends Afro Rock and Psychedelia in 1970s Nigeria

The World Ends is the latest title from Soundway Records showcasing a wave of guitar driven and psychedelic groups that sprung up in Nigeria during the early 1970s. Featuring 32 electrifying and funk laden grooves, this is the sound of a generation attempting to pick up the pieces after the devastation of the Nigerian civil war.

Spread over 2 CDs and 2 triple gatefold LPs, this bumper collection is brimming with youthful exuberance, fuzzed out guitar and cosmic organ vibes and owes much to the psychedelic sounds of Jim Morrison, Santana, Hendrix, Jefferson Airplane and James Brown.

As the summer of love was blossoming in London and San Francisco, Nigeria was imploding into civil war. Also known as the Biafran war of 1967, it was a grisly conflict taking over three million lives yet at the same time as the country was being pulled apart there was a new world beginning. The tracks featured represent a forgotten chapter in Nigeria’s musical history when the youth threw their varied morsels into the pot from hard rock to psychedelic soul when guitars were cherished instruments, symbolic of a new movement, when highlife and Afrobeat played second fiddle to ‘the beat’.

Reviews

“What an extraordinary collection!"
The Sunday Times

“This double disc stands out as a relentless dance-floor scorcher”
Spin Magazine 9/10

Tracklisting

CD Double Album (SNDWCD023)
  1. Ify Jerry Krusade - Nwantinti / Die Die
  2. The Hygrades - Rough Rider
  3. The Hykkers - Deiyo Deiyo (Akpuwunlobi)
  4. Wrinkar Experience - Soundway
  5. The Funkees - Breakthrough
  6. The Mebusas - Mr. Bull Dog (45 version)
  7. Foundars 15 - Don’t Take Me For A Ride
  8. Ceejebs - Eti Ufok
  9. Tony Grey Super - Yem Efe
  10. The Identicals - Akwa Kayi Ji Bia Nuwa
  11. P.R.O. - Blacky Joe
  12. Cicada - Oli Nkwu
  13. The Lijadu Sister - Life’s Gone Down Low
  14. Eppi Fanio - Ikoko Ti Yio Jata (On Perseverance)
  15. Bongos Ikwue - All Night Long
  16. The Thermometers - Babalawo
  17. Colomach - Ottoto Shamoleda
  18. The Black Mirrors - The World Ends
  19. The Semi Colon - Isi Agboncha
  20. Lawrence Amavi Group - Money That’s What I Want
  21. The Hygrades - Somebody’s Gonna Lose Or Win
  22. Ofege - In Concert
  23. The Elcados - Chokoi & Oreje
  24. Sonny Okosuns & Paperback Limited - Ohomi
  25. Chuck Barrister & The Voices of Darkness - Be Kind, Be Foolish, Be Happy
  26. Tony Grey & The Black 7 - Ugbo Ndoma
  27. Reme Izabebo’s Music Research - (Ayamayama) The Same Man
  28. Action 13 - Active Action
  29. The Actions - Kpokposikposi
  30. The Strangers - Onye Ije
  31. The Comrades - Bullwalk
  32. Ofo The Black Company - Egwu Aja
Download Album (SNDWD023)
  1. Ify Jerry Krusade - Nwantinti / Die Die
  2. The Hygrades - Rough Rider
  3. The Hykkers - Deiyo Deiyo (Akpuwunlobi)
  4. Wrinkar Experience - Soundway
  5. The Funkees - Breakthrough
  6. The Mebusas - Mr. Bull Dog (45 version)
  7. Foundars 15 - Don’t Take Me For A Ride
  8. Ceejebs - Eti Ufok
  9. Tony Grey Super - Yem Efe
  10. The Identicals - Akwa Kayi Ji Bia Nuwa
  11. P.R.O. - Blacky Joe
  12. Cicada - Oli Nkwu
  13. The Lijadu Sister - Life’s Gone Down Low
  14. Eppi Fanio - Ikoko Ti Yio Jata (On Perseverance)
  15. Bongos Ikwue - All Night Long
  16. The Thermometers - Babalawo
  17. Colomach - Ottoto Shamoleda
  18. The Black Mirrors - The World Ends
  19. The Semi Colon - Isi Agboncha
  20. Lawrence Amavi Group - Money That’s What I Want
  21. The Hygrades - Somebody’s Gonna Lose Or Win
  22. Ofege - In Concert
  23. The Elcados - Chokoi & Oreje
  24. Sonny Okosuns & Paperback Limited - Ohomi
  25. Chuck Barrister & The Voices of Darkness - Be Kind, Be Foolish, Be Happy
  26. Tony Grey & The Black 7 - Ugbo Ndoma
  27. Reme Izabebo’s Music Research - (Ayamayama) The Same Man
  28. Action 13 - Active Action
  29. The Actions - Kpokposikposi
  30. The Strangers - Onye Ije
  31. The Comrades - Bullwalk
  32. Ofo The Black Company - Egwu Aja