African Jazz/Funk/Psych

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In Ghana “to chop” is to eat, so the phrase No Funk, No Chop quite simply means; deliver afro funk and disco bombs, or no one will eat today.
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No Funk, No Chop Volume 1
Various Artists
African Jazz/Funk/Psych
£22.00
2000 Blacks Got To Be Free is a musical collaboration between the African American vibraphone player Roy Ayers and Fela.
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Music Of Many Colours
Fela Kuti and Roy Ayers
African Jazz/Funk/Psych
£25.00
Live! is an album recorded in 1971 by Fela Kuti's band Africa '70, with the addition of former Cream drummer Ginger Baker on two songs.
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Fela With Ginger Baker Live!
Fela Kuti
African Jazz/Funk/Psych
£24.00
Hailu Mergia weaves Moog and DX7 synthesizers, Rhodes electric piano and rhythm machine into the rich harmonic layering of his accordion, creating hauntingly psychedelic, elegantly arranged instrumentals.
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Hailu Mergia & His Classical Instrument: Shemonmuanaye
Hailu Mergia
African Jazz/Funk/Psych
£24.00
This disc is an overt response to the consistent harassment afflicting Fela Kuti's Kalakuta Republic in the early '70s under the oppressive Lagos authorities.
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Expensive Shit
Fela Kuti
African Jazz/Funk/Psych
£22.00
Next up on Africa Seven is the second edition of our "African Funk Experimentals" LPs. With these we took some of our favourite African artists, choose the most funky we can find and then put together a compilation of their choicest and funkiest tracks.
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African Funk Experimentals (1979 to 1981)
Pasteur Lappe
African Jazz/Funk/Psych
£24.00
Living near Dortmund, Atta worked as a day-laborer, farmhand and English teacher, but he was also absorbing Stevie Wonder, the Staples Singers, KC and the Sunshine Band, Michael Jackson and the disco movement.
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Obaa Sima
Ata Kak
African Jazz/Funk/Psych
£23.00
Get out! Fight!” The Lijadu Sisters’ Horizon Unlimited is the insurgent afrofunk their second cousin Fela strived to create.
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Horizon Unlimited
The Lijuda Sisters
African Jazz/Funk/Psych
£25.00
Archival reissue of the Afroprog-psych Zamrock masterpiece.
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Lukombo Vibes
Witch
African Jazz/Funk/Psych
£27.00
Soul Jazz Records' new Nigeria Soul Fever is their first release to explore the vast wealth of Nigerian music recorded in the 1970s.
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Nigeria Soul Fever - Afro Funk, Disco and Boogie West African Disco Mayhem!
Various Artists
African Jazz/Funk/Psych
£37.00
Africamore: The Afro-Funk Side of Italy (1973-1978) Continuing Four Flies' dedication to delving into lesser-explored periods of Italian music, Africamore takes us on a captivating journey into the intersection of Afro-funk and the Italian soundscape during the six years between 1973 and 1978 
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Africamore - The Afro-funk side of Italy (1973-1978)
Various Artists
African Jazz/Funk/Psych
£36.00
On the title track Fela and the backup singers ridicule the mindset of men in uniform over an urgent, quick-march accompaniment from Afrika 70.
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Zombie
Fela Kuti
African Jazz/Funk/Psych
£26.00
This definitive reissue features the original LP remastered and pressed on 180 gram triple vinyl in a gatefold sleeve.
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Nigeria 70: The Definitive Guide To 1970’s Funky Lagos (Green coloured vinyl - Strut 25th Anniversary Edition)
Various Artists
African Jazz/Funk/Psych
£34.00
Les Amazones d’Afrique is a creative force that embraces international voices; sweet, strong harmonies that summon the rights of women and girls; and a meltdown of heritage and new gen talent.
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Musow Danse
Les Amazones d'Afrique
African Jazz/Funk/Psych
£27.00
Over the past few years Acid Jazz has released a series of reissues from the enigmatic ‘Albarika Store’ – a goldmine of records from Benin, West Africa from the late ‘60s through to the early ’80s. 
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Le Sato 2
T.p. Orchestre Poly-rythmo
African Jazz/Funk/Psych
£27.00
Fela Kuti lives on! This is the 10th Anniversary reissue of the classic tribute album pressed on opaque banana yellow and opaque red vinyl benefiting the Red Hot organization. 
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Red Hot and Fela
Various Artists
African Jazz/Funk/Psych
£28.00
After what seemed like ages we finally tracked Eko down in Cameroun and persuaded him that a re-issue was most definitely needed.
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Funky Disco Music
Eko
African Jazz/Funk/Psych
£22.00
Saci Pererê is an album by Banda Black Rio, a Brazilian music group from Rio de Janeiro, formed in 1976.
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Saci Perere
Bando Black Rio
African Jazz/Funk/Psych
£36.00
The Joy, a five-piece acapella group from South Africa, release their selftitled debut album, which was recorded and captured on film in one take at Paul Epworth’s Church Studios in late 2023.
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The Joy (Blue vinyl)
The Joy
African Jazz/Funk/Psych
£25.00
Funeral For Justice is the new album by Mdou Moctar. Recorded at the close of two years spent touring the globe following the release of 2019 breakout Afrique Victime, it captures the Nigerien quartet in ferocious form.
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Funeral For Justice
Mdou Moctar
African Jazz/Funk/Psych
£24.00
Reissue, originally released in 1962. 
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Trumpet Africaine
Hugh Masekela
African Jazz/Funk/Psych
£15.00
The ultra-rare holy grail masterpiece by Elcados originally released by EMI-Nigeria in 1973 and recorded by Kayode Salami.
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This World is Full of Injustice
Elcados
African Jazz/Funk/Psych
£25.00
Konkolo Orchestra is a Zürich/Switzerland based project initiated by multi-instrumentalist, producer and composer Alexis Malefakis. With strong jazzy afrobeat and highlife references, Konkolo Orchestra pays homage to musical innovators such as Fela Anikulapo Kuti, Tony Oladipo Allen, Ebo Taylor and many more.
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Future Pasts
Konkolo Orchestra
African Jazz/Funk/Psych
£25.00
Rich in ancestral flows, between Ghana and Europe, powered by deep, conga led rhythms and seductive warm horn riffs come Jembaa Groove, whose new album and newly rendered sound, reminds us that jazz, in its contemporary, soulful form is not just a London ‘ting’.
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Ye Ankasa | We Ourselves
Jembaa Groove
African Jazz/Funk/Psych
£24.00
High-quality vinyl old school jacket faithfully reproducing the iconic “mermaid” design from the 1973 release.
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Rail Band
Rail Band
African Jazz/Funk/Psych
£26.00
Inspired by his cultural background Bukky goes in search of the cuisine traditions of his mother land Nigeria.
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Obedun (Sweet SOUP)
Bukky Leo
African Jazz/Funk/Psych
£24.00
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Raised on Colombia’s Caribbean coast and united by it’s capital, Bogota, Ghetto Kumbé combine the rich musical heritage of their home, to invoke the spirit of digital rumba in audiences all over the world.
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Ghetto Kumbͩ
Ghetto Kumbé
African Jazz/Funk/Psych
£25.00 £19.00 Save £6.00
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Following the first in a series of his classic recordings reissued in collaboration with Awesome Tapes From Africa, Mergia assembled a band and began performing live again after many years driving a cab in Washington, DC.
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Pioneer Works Swing (Live)
Hailu Mergia
African Jazz/Funk/Psych
£26.00 £21.00 Save £5.00
From the landlocked tropical savanna of Upper Volta, an ever-evolving cast of musicians brought the world's rhythms to the streets of their native Bobo-Dioulasso.
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Air Volta
Volta Jazz
African Jazz/Funk/Psych
£26.00
This album captures unique moments spent under the spell of sweeping guitar solos of the musicians of M’berra. 
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M Berra
Khalab & M'berra Ensemble
African Jazz/Funk/Psych
£27.00
For 20 years the Tuareg culture and music has fascinated the world.
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Aboogi
Imarhan
African Jazz/Funk/Psych
£22.00
The sessions lasted just two days, and we can only imagine the atmosphere in that room as the hip hop godfathers exchanged the conga drums of Harlem for the explosive sounds of authentic Afrobeat.
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Release Date: 22/11/2024 Africanism (feat. Egypt 80)
The Last Poets & Tony Allen
African Jazz/Funk/Psych
£28.00
The album commences with title track “Tension”, leading Mulatu’s signature sound in a new, rhythmically intense direction, hence the name, providing fresh creative ground for the collaborators.
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Tension
Mulatu Astatke
African Jazz/Funk/Psych
£25.00
Soundway Records presents a collection of nineteen tracks chronicling a time when drum machines, synthesisers, imported pop, reggae, disco and soul collided with highlife, juju and cultural music in Nigeria.
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Release Date: 22/11/2024 - Nigeria Special Volume 3 - Electronic Innovation Meets Culture and Tradition 1978-93 (3LP)
Various Artists
African Jazz/Funk/Psych
£31.00
Intimate early recording by Malian icon. Awesome Tapes From Africa the label began over 10 years ago with the reissue of Nahawa Doumbia’s Vol. 3.
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Release Date: 06/12/2024 - Vol 2
Nahawa Doumbia
African Jazz/Funk/Psych
£27.00
The massed horns, relentless grooves, and bold improvising that would come to define Fela's aesthetic sound positively revolutionary on these essential early recordings.
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Alagbon Close (50th Anniversary Opaque Orange vinyl)
Fela Kuti
African Jazz/Funk/Psych
£26.00
Seun Kuti releases highly anticipated album Heavier Yet (Lays The Crownless Head) featuring guests Damian Marley and Sampa The Great.
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Heavier Yet (Lays The Crownless Head)
Seun Kuti & Egypt 80
African Jazz/Funk/Psych
£29.00
Getatchew Mekurya is probably the most revered veteran of Ethiopian saxophone.
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Getatchew Mekuria And His Saxophone
Getatchew Mekuria
African Jazz/Funk/Psych
£21.00
Berlin based Ruffcats are something of an institution. This eight-piece outfit made up of some of the country’s most revered session musicians, pool all of their diverse influences and come together as "The Ruffcats" to create a unique take on the music they love.
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Orile To Berlin
Rah & The Ruffcats
African Jazz/Funk/Psych
£25.00
1979 township disco funk masterpiece from one of South Africa’s most prolific bands of that era.
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Kansas City
The Movers
African Jazz/Funk/Psych
£17.00
This is the third volume in Luaka Bop’s critically acclaimed World Spirituality Classics series, illuminating the relationship between music and belief.
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World Spirituality Classics 3: The Muslim Highlife Of Alhaji Waziri Oshomah
Alhaji Waziri Oshomah
African Jazz/Funk/Psych
£35.00
Wah Wah 45s are proud to present the debut LP on the label from Ghanaian vocalist and djembe drummer Afla Sackey. With his band Afrik Bawantu, he has fulfilled thedreamof blending traditional Ghanaian music with sizzling Afrobeat grooves, topping it off with anirresistibly funky twist! Their unique blend of vibrant African rhythms with brisk, animatedhorn sections and heavy bass-lines bring a fresh perspective to the Afrobeat genre.
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Destination
Afla Sackey & Afrik Bawantu
African Jazz/Funk/Psych
£28.00
Following the great success of BBE’s 2023 reissue of Remi Kabaka’s 1976 lost masterpiece 'Son of Africa' comes yet another neglected and hitherto-hidden slice of pure Kabaka goodness: 1980’s 'Roots Funkadelia'.
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Roots Funkadelia
Remi Kabaka
African Jazz/Funk/Psych
£32.00
The Jazz Epistles were the very first South African jazz group who broke away from the swinging and danceable jazz forms in vogue during the 1950s.
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Jazz Epistles
Jazz Epistles
African Jazz/Funk/Psych
£14.00
Never content with the ordinary, Baba Sissoko started his personal outstanding musical journey in Bamako, Mali, several years ago.
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Fasiya
Baba & Djana Sissoko
African Jazz/Funk/Psych
£15.00
Abacothozi were formed in 1973 by bassist Berthwel Maphumulo, formerly of the Elite Swingsters.
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Thema Maboneng
Abacothozi
African Jazz/Funk/Psych
£27.00
Intuitive, authentic, and full of ruthless rhythms, Madalitso will make you clap, dance, smile, and rethink everything you thought you knew about African sound and instrumentation.
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Musakayike
Madalitso Band
African Jazz/Funk/Psych
£28.00
In the early 1980s, a particular alchemy between new musical technologies and significant social, cultural, and political transformations in Ghana gave rise to a new style of highlife.
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Ghana Special 2: Electronic Highlife & Afro Sounds in the Diaspora, 1980-93
Various Artists
African Jazz/Funk/Psych
£32.00
Nigerian classic Black Children Sledge Funk Group 1976's debut album full of positive vibrations and feel-good grooves! A sunny blend of Reggae and Afro-Funk with a lot of percussions, psychedelic and rhythmic guitar and organ.
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Love Is Fair
Black Children Sledge Funk Group
African Jazz/Funk/Psych
£24.00
Rejoice is a very special collaboration between Tony Allen, the legendary drummer and co-founder of Afrobeat, and Hugh Masekela, the master trumpet player of South African jazz.
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Rejoice
Tony Allen & Hugh Masekela
African Jazz/Funk/Psych
£22.00
Lo-fi Tuareg guitar from renowned Timbouctou musician Abba Gargando.
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Abba Gargando
Abba Gargando
African Jazz/Funk/Psych
£26.00
Digitally remastered from the original tapes, Ali Farka Touré’s ‘Green’ album showcases Ali's acoustic guitar and vocals, both alone and accompanied by calabash and ngoni (traditional four string guitar)
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Green (Ali Farka Toure)
Ali Farka Touré
African Jazz/Funk/Psych
£27.00
The first vocal album by beloved Ethiopian nun, composer, and pianist Emahoy Tsege Mariam Gebru - profound and deeply moving home cassette recordings made amidst political upheaval and turmoil.
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Souvenirs
Emahoy Tsege Mariam Gebru
African Jazz/Funk/Psych
£27.00
By 1972, when Music of Fela: Roforofo Fight was originally released (on two vinyl albums, Music of Fela Volume One and Volume Two), Fela was becoming one of the most avidly followed musicians in West Africa. 
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Roforofo Fight
Fela Kuti & Africa 70
African Jazz/Funk/Psych
£22.00
Also featuring Ginger Baker, the title track is among Fela’s first overtly political lyrics.
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Why Black Man Dey Suffer
Fela Kuti
African Jazz/Funk/Psych
£22.00
The deepest song here is the second track, "Mr Grammarticalogylisationalism Is The Boss,” which ridicules the notion that speaking ""proper"" English demonstrates superior intelligence, and bemoans the fact that doing so is, unfortunately, a requirement for upward mobility.
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Excuse-o
Fela Kuti
African Jazz/Funk/Psych
£22.00
This epic Afrobeat album contains just one eponymous track clocking in at just over 25 minutes in length, and beginning with a mysterious and psychedelic musical interplay between Fela on organ and Tony Allen on drums. 
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Confusion
Fela Kuti
African Jazz/Funk/Psych
£26.00
Gratitude is the eagerly anticipated new solo album from Abiodun Oyewole, the poet, teacher and founding member of The Last Poets.
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Gratitude
Abiodun Oyewole
African Jazz/Funk/Psych
£28.00
Ayalew Mesfin stands aside the likes of Mulatu Astake, Mahmoud Ahmed, Hailu Mergia and Alemayehu Eshete as a legend of 1970s Ethiopia.
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Che Belew (March Forward)
Ayalew Mesfin
African Jazz/Funk/Psych
£30.00
Ayalew Mesfin stands aside the likes of Mulatu Astake, Mahmoud Ahmed, Hailu Mergia and Alemayehu Eshete as a legend of 1970s Ethiopia.
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Good Aderegechegn (Blindsided By Love)
Ayalew Mesfin
African Jazz/Funk/Psych
£28.00
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Immy Owusu’s debut LP LO-LIFE! draws on the work of West African giants such as Ebo Taylor and William Onyeabor as well as psychedelic troubadours like Rodriguez.
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LO-LIFE!
Immy Owusu
African Jazz/Funk/Psych
£30.00 £21.00 Save £9.00
Since the 60s, Congolese guitar combos and orchestras have always been popular across West and Central Africa. 
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Ewondo Rythm
Ondigui and Bota Tabansi International
African Jazz/Funk/Psych
£25.00
The album is a fusion of highlife and soul.
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Funky Highlife
C.K. Mann & His Carousel 7
African Jazz/Funk/Psych
£26.00
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It’s a voice that soars – pure, clear and true — above bass and synths, traditional percussion and infectious Mande guitar grooves. A stop-you-in-your-tracks voice instantly familiar to anyone in Mali, West Africa: Rokia Koné, aka the Rose of Bamako.
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BAMANAN
Rokia Koné & Jacknife Lee
African Jazz/Funk/Psych
£29.00 £21.00 Save £8.00
Sometimes a musical message is so urgent that questions of recording quality are almost beside the point. Informally recorded in 1969 in a noisy club – Copenhagen’s famous Jazzhus Montmartre – the flavour of this album is ‘documentary’ rather than luxuriantly hi-fidelity, yet the essence of Abdullah Ibrahim’s communication comes through loud and clear. 
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African-Piano
Abdullah Ibrahim
African Jazz/Funk/Psych
£24.00
After “Afro Exotique – Adventures In The Leftfield, Africa 1972-88” was enthusiastically embraced by heads, collectors and core Africa Seven enthusiasts alike, we dived back down into the vaults, and hope we’ve come up with another volume of listenable esoterica from roughly the same period.
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Afro Exotique 2 – Further Adventures In The Leftfield, Africa 1975-87
Various Artists
African Jazz/Funk/Psych
£24.00
The past five years have seen amapiano, South Africa’s electronic music movement born in the townships of the country’s Gauteng province, evolve from an underground sound to a nationwide mainstream staple.
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Amapiano Selections
Teno Afrika
African Jazz/Funk/Psych
£23.00
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Keleketla! is an expansive collaborative project, reaching outward from Johannesburg to London, Lagos, L.A. and West Papua.
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Keleketla!
Keleketla!
African Jazz/Funk/Psych
£26.00 £15.00 Save £11.00
Ebo Taylor is one of Ghana's finest producer/arrangers. Taylor was heavily influential in the unique sound that emerged from the country in the 70's; a combination of traditional Ghanaian with Afro-beat, jazz, and funk rhythms. He worked with bands including Stargazers Band, Broadway Dance Band, Black Star Highlife Band (with Teddy Osei and Sol Amarfio who later joined Osibisa), Apagya Show Band and fellow musicians C.K. Mann, Gyedu-Blay Ambolley and the legendary Pat Thomas.
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My Love And Music
Ebo Taylor
African Jazz/Funk/Psych
£25.00