View basket “The Ecstatic Music Of” has been added to your basket. Who Is William Onyeabor William Onyeabor SKU: 8089900791 Barcode: 0680899007917 26.00 £26.00 Genre: World / Fusion Label: Luaka Bop Released Date: 28th October 2013 Buying Format: 3LP Out of stock Back Order Add to your Wishlist Description Product Info The title of the fifth volume in Luaka Bop’s World Psychedelic Classics series is perhaps the most aptly titled one. Nigerian musician and entrepreneur William Onyeabor is a bit of an intentional cipher biographically. He released eight albums and two singles on his own Wilfilms label between 1977 and 1985. After becoming a born again Christian, he renounced his past and musical career. Onyeabor became a successful entrepreneurial businessman and an enthusiastic booster of Nigerian’s hotbed of Christian music scene activity. He was also crowned high chief of his native Igbo people of Enugu, one of the country’s capitals of commerce. The nine tracks on this years-in-the making compilation, feature music drenched in analogue synths, early drum machine sounds and wah wah, phase-shited guitars and basses. It is all seductive, infectious, timeless. On set opener “Body and Soul,” Onyeabor co-opts tranced-out, Nigerian juju music, saturates it in slow Afro funk and weds it all P-Funk’s call and response lyric and chorus; after 10 minutes, the effect is consciousness altering. “Atomic Bomb,” is pure African disco with peeling, phased synths, fat basslines, drum loops, and strident, chunky guitars, punctuated by Rhodes pianos; they create a spaced out backdrop of nearly dubwise effects in this leisurely, insistently pulsing groover. The singing (a female chorus with Onyeabor adding his own gentle stream of consciousness musings) pushes it all to the margin. “Why Go To War,” composed and recorded a decade after the Biafran/Nigerian civil war, bridges Onyeabor’s brand of Afro-Funk to Fela Kuti’s-especially in the vocal chants and the militancy of its groove. “Love Is Blind,” with its tight, repetitive guitar vamp, rolling Space Invaders -style drum machines, echoes, and the jagged weave of chorded and single line zig-zagging synth runs, fuses the boundaries separating soul, disco and new wave. None of the previous tunes prepare the listener for the futurist, electro rhythm and analogue synth crush that is “Let’s Fall In Love,” from 1983’s Good Name–perhaps the set’s finest track. Over seven minutes, its layered beaming, stratospheric, proto-techno synths pulse and stab as a high register soprano sax careens over the frantic tension. Who Is William Onyeabor? may not answer many biographical questions, but it does paint a superb portrait of the musician as a highly original creator and pioneer; it adds depth and dimension to the picture we have of African music during the era. ~ Thom Jurek Artist William Onyeabor Genre World / Fusion Label Luaka Bop Buying Options 3LP Format 3LP Condition New Country United Kingdom Track Listings 1. Body and Soul 2. Atomic Bomb 3. Good Name 4. Something You'll Never Forget 5. Why Go To War 6. Love is Blind 7. Heaven and Hell 8. Let's Fall In Love 9. 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