A retrospective “discovery price” sampler featuring a choice selection from some of Soundway’s favorite tracks they’ve released over the last nine years. From the highlife, disco and rock sounds of ’70s Nigeria to the golden age of Panamanian music, Benin’s Afro-Latin grooves, Colombia’s champeta and all other forms of tropical and Afro sounds imaginable, Afro [...]
A painstakingly assembled collection of Afrobeat and Afro Funk, most of which has never been released outside of Africa and some of which is unreleased anywhere. The first of three planned volumes, this album will interest anyone with a love of funky global sounds, especially those who bought the recent Fela Kuti reissues. This package [...]
Nigeria in the 1970’s had one the biggest recording industries on the continent as well as one of the most diverse. The fusion of African rhythms and culture with jazz, funk, soul, and rock was an Africa-wide phenomenon but nowhere was it more prolific and active than the cities and dance floors of Nigeria.
These twelve [...]