The World Ends
Afro Rock & Psychedelia in 1970s Nigeria
The World Ends is the latest title from Soundway Records showcasing a wave of guitar driven and psychedelic groups that sprung up in Nigeria during the early 1970s. Featuring 32 electrifying and funk laden grooves, this is the sound of a generation attempting to pick up the pieces after the devastation of the Nigerian civil war.
Spread over 2 CDs and 2 triple gatefold LPs, this bumper collection is brimming with youthful exuberance, fuzzed out guitar and cosmic organ vibes and owes much to the psychedelic sounds of Jim Morrison, Santana, Hendrix, Jefferson Airplane and James Brown.
As the summer of love was blossoming in London and San Francisco, Nigeria was imploding into civil war. Also known as the Biafran war of 1967, it was a grisly conflict taking over three million lives yet at the same time as the country was being pulled apart there was a new world beginning. The tracks featured represent a forgotten chapter in Nigeria’s musical history when the youth threw their varied morsels into the pot from hard rock to psychedelic soul when guitars were cherished instruments, symbolic of a new movement, when highlife and Afrobeat played second fiddle to ‘the beat’.
“What an extraordinary collection!”
The Sunday Times
“This double disc stands out as a relentless dance-floor scorcher”
Spin Magazine 9/10
CD Double Digi Pack with 44 page booklet
Triple Gatefold Vinyl (Version 1 & 2) – BONUS TRACKS INCLUDED
CD Track Listing
CD1
Ify Jerry Krusade – Nwantinti / Die Die
The Hygrades – Rough Rider
The Hykkers – Deiyo Deiyo (Akpuwunlobi)
Wrinkar Experience – Soundway
The Funkees – Breakthrough
The Mebusas – Mr. Bull Dog (45 version)
Foundars 15 – Don’t Take Me For A Ride
Ceejebs – Eti Ufok
Tony Grey Super 7 – Yem Efe
The Identicals – Akwa Kayi Ji Bia Nuwa
P.R.O. – Blacky Joe
Cicada – Oli Nkwu
The Lijadu Sisters – Life’s Gone Down Low
Eppi Fanio – Ikoko Ti Yio Jata (On Perseverance)
Bongos Ikwue – All Night Long
CD2
The Thermometers – Babalawo
Colomach – Ottoto Shamoleda
The Black Mirrors – The World Ends
The Semi Colon – Isi Agboncha
Lawrence Amavi Group – Money That’s What I Want
The Hygrades – Somebody’s Gonna Lose Or Win
Ofege – In Concert
The Elcados – Chokoi & Oreje
Sonny Okosuns & Paperback Limited – Ohomi
Chuck Barrister & The Voices Of Darkness – Be Kind, Be Foolish, Be Happy Tony Grey & The Black 7 – Ugbo Ndoma
Reme Izabebo’s Music Research – (Ayamayama) The Same Man
Action 13 – Active Action
The Actions – Kpokposikposi
The Strangers – Onye Ije
The Comrades – Bullwalk
Ofo The Black Company – Egwu Aja
Related:
I have to ask – there seems to be a lot of very frantic playing going on at the start of the mp3 of “Deiyo Deiyo” by The Hykkers – is it meant to sound this chaotic?
(David Lusby on July 4th, 2010)[...] Funkees: Breakthrough Lijadu Sisters: Life’s Gone Down Low From The World Ends: Afro Rock & Psychedelia in 1970s Nigeria (Forthcoming on Soundway, [...]
(THE NEW MONTHLY SIDE DISHES SEGMENT ON THE MELTING POT « Soul-Sides.com on July 19th, 2010)having recieved the lps yesterday I have to say as much as I appreciated the mp3s, there is no substitute for the vinyl listening experience – brilliant job! I hope you haven’t used up all the great tracks and that you continue to release brilliant music like this. many thanks!
(David Lusby on July 25th, 2010)[...] ORDER HERE [...]
((VA) Sound Way Records releases “The World Ends: Afro Rock and Pyschedelia in 1970′s Nigeria” « Sound Colour Vibration on August 24th, 2010)[...] to consider that Nigeria needed its own postcolonial Afro-centric awakening. The Soundway Records website calls this collection a musical chapter forgotten during Nigeria’s civil war in the late 1960s. [...]
(The World Ends | blackgrooves.org on September 1st, 2010)[...] The World Ends: Afro Rock and Psychedelia in 1970s Nigeria [...]
(Afrobeat Reigns Eternal! « Sonic Gore on September 23rd, 2010)[...] would end up spanning over two years and extinguish over three million lives in the process. “The World Ends” is the newest compilation of African psychedelic music released on Soundway Records that gives [...]
(The World Ends: A Conversation with African Music Archivist Uchenna Ikonne « THE HYDRA on November 21st, 2010)[...] Available here: [...]
(Best Music Re-Issues of 2010 (Part 2) « THE HYDRA on December 29th, 2010)[...] in Los Angeles, much of my August-October last year was soundtracked by the (then) new compilation The World Ends: Afro Rock & Psychedelia in 1970s Nigeria. The entirety of the two disc set is worth seeking out, but it was my own rediscovery of The Ify [...]
(Aquarium Drunkard » The Ify Jerry Krusade :: Nwantinti/Die Die on June 9th, 2011)