CHUKWU VICTOR / UNCLE VICTOR CHUKS & BLA - VINYL AKALAKA / THE POWER [VINYL]

Popis - AKALAKA / THE POWER [VINYL]:
BBE Music presents 'Akalaka/The Power' from Victor Chukwu, a Igbo Highlife musician. Highlife was the music composed by the Igbo people after the Biafran war. It was music that rebuilt a sense of pride, identity and dignity. Tabansi recording star 'Uncle' Victor Chukwu's super rare album sees a reissue after four decades. These sets were probably recorded around 1977-79 at the Tabansi Studios in Onitsha, with Chief Tabansi also mixing and mastering: a 100% homegrown Tabansi product. Victor worked with a bassist, a drummer, and some brass- although he also doubled himself on tenor sax and arranged much of these glorious sessions. The songs have an inimitable feel-good quality: happy, dignified, proud, spiritual, everything except one composition in major key. Perhaps its no surprise that many '70s and '80s Igbo highlife group members are today gospel singers and musicians.