Most persuasive ambassadors of funky highlife. Synth-fields and lyrics that express a deep personal vision, heįound great success at the dawn of the 1980s as one of Benin City’s Uwaifo, he found the perfect medium for his message in the trance. Political than Osayomore Joseph and less psychedelic than Victor Out government corruption or confront the dark legacy of Nigeria’sĪkaba Man was the philosopher king of Edo funk. Modernisation and electrification of Edo music, using funk and Afro-īeat as the building blocks for songs that weren’t afraid to call Invitation of the royal family – he devoted himself to the Returned to settle in Benin City in the mid 1970s – at the Skills as a performer made him a fixture on the Lagos scene. Of the flute into the horn-dominated world of highlife, and his Osayomore Joseph was one of the first musicians to bring the sound Originators Osayomore Joseph, Akaba Man, and Sir Victor Uwaifo: That's the sound you'll be discovering in the first volume of theĮdo Funk Explosion series which focusses on the genre’s greatest Relentless began fusing them with synthesizers, electric guitars andĨ0 ́s effect racks which resulted in some of the most outstanding Edo Uwaifo took the skeletal structure of Edo music and Someone was needed to channel this energy into a distinctive soundĪnd Sir Victor Uwaifo appeared like a mad professor with his Joromi Metropolis of Lagos Edo Funk was raw and reduced to its bare Nigerian disco productions coming out of the international Native Edo culture and fusing them with new sound effects comingįrom West Africa ́s night-clubs. To experiment with different ways of integrating elements from their It first emerged in the late 1970s when a group of musicians began Intoxicating highlife music known as Edo Funk was born. It was in Benin City, in the heart of Nigeria, that a new hybrid of
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