Cat No:
BBE592CCD
Release Date: 30 August 2019
Label: Bbe Africa / Barely Breaking Even
Packaging Type: Digipak
No of Units: 1
Barcode: 193483765358
Genres: World Music
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Description
BBE Music proudly present a sampler of their major West African label series, Tabansi Gold, giving a taste of the sixty or so titles to be reissued over the next couple of years. Taking advantage of the growing lack of interest by the major labels in 'local' music, Chief Tabansi set up his own imprint in 1952, pressing up records at UAC, and promoting them through villages in 'music vans'. By the early 70s, he was the most successful record-man in the north of Nigeria. He'd set up Tabansi Records (later renamed Tabansi Music Publishers), in Onitsha, Lagos, complete with its own studios and pressing plant, and by the 80s, with the help of his son Godwin, he was promoting and developing many of Nigeria's young musicians and stars, including reggae superstar Majek Fashek, whose 1988 album Send Down The Rain remains one the biggest local-selling African LPs of all time; Felix 'Lover Boy' Liberty, whose Ifeoma became a pan-African sensation; and Stella Monye, whose three LPs (two of them on the Tabansi label) established her as an international soul vocalist.
This sampler takes in just a few of the label's highlights: the best in 70s and 80s West African highlife, afrobeat, funk, soul, boogie, disco, guitar-band bangers, soukous, rumba and major previously-unissued Ebo Taylor afrobeat/highlife masterpiece, and more. The selection on this sampler is deliberately mixed up. No artful 'sequencing', no cod-historical 'contextualising'. We want you to hear hardcore village highlife and palmwine storytellers interspersed with psych-juju and boogie bangers; classic afrobeat followed by Nigerian soul ballads: we want you to get the picture, to get into the spirit of this beautiful eccentricity that's Tabansi records! -
Tracklisting
- 1. Make You No Mind - Ebo Taylor
- 2. Zeal Anata - Zeal Onyia
- 3. Love Vibration - Nkono Teles
- 4. Oba Mimo Olorun Ayo - Ojo Balingo
- 5. Looking Out For You - The Mandators
- 6. Tshina Dekula - Lumingu Puati (Zorro)
- 7. Amanfoo - Dytomite Starlite Band Of Ghana
- 8. You're My Solution - Eric Kol
- 9. For The Love Of Money - Zack And Geebah
- 10. Super Star - Tony Sarfo & His Funki Afrosibi
- 11. Hold On Pretty Woman - Ben Jagga
- 12. Wonderful For Ashawo - Ondigui And Bota Tabansi International âŽ
- 13. Akalaka - Victor Chukwu
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