{"id":42596,"date":"2017-08-31T18:58:14","date_gmt":"2017-08-31T16:58:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/pan-african-music.com\/impossibly-rare-king-bucknor-jr-s-afrofunk-album-gets-vinyl-reissue\/"},"modified":"2020-04-27T03:38:42","modified_gmt":"2020-04-27T02:38:42","slug":"impossibly-rare-king-bucknor-jr-s-afrofunk-album-gets-vinyl-reissue","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pan-african-music.com\/en\/impossibly-rare-king-bucknor-jr-s-afrofunk-album-gets-vinyl-reissue\/","title":{"rendered":"Impossibly rare King Bucknor Jr.&#8217;s afrofunk album gets vinyl reissue"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3 class=\"pam-featured-content\" ><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-8592 pam-featured-content\"  src=\"https:\/\/pan-african-music-production.fra1.digitaloceanspaces.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/FB-ARTICLE-3.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1200\" height=\"627\" srcset=\"https:\/\/pan-african-music-production.fra1.digitaloceanspaces.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/FB-ARTICLE-3.jpg 1200w, https:\/\/pan-african-music-production.fra1.digitaloceanspaces.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/FB-ARTICLE-3-759x397.jpg 759w, https:\/\/pan-african-music-production.fra1.digitaloceanspaces.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/FB-ARTICLE-3-1010x528.jpg 1010w, https:\/\/pan-african-music-production.fra1.digitaloceanspaces.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/FB-ARTICLE-3-661x345.jpg 661w, https:\/\/pan-african-music-production.fra1.digitaloceanspaces.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/FB-ARTICLE-3-465x243.jpg 465w, https:\/\/pan-african-music-production.fra1.digitaloceanspaces.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/FB-ARTICLE-3-375x196.jpg 375w\" sizes=\"(min-width:1010px) 759px,100vw\" loading=\"lazy\" \/><\/h3>\n<h3>French label <a href=\"https:\/\/pan-african-music.com\/?post_type=post&amp;s=hot+casa\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Hot Casa Records<\/a> reissues African Woman, the second album from Fela Kuti prot\u00e9g\u00e9 Kingsley Bucknor Jr.<\/h3>\n<p>Member of Fela&#8217;s Kalakuta Republic, King Bucknor Jr. was recorded in 1979 at the Emi studio in Lagos, Nigeria.\u00a0Arranged and self produced, this second Kingsley Buckor \u2018s album\u00a0is seen as a masterpiece in the afro-beat history.<\/p>\n<p>At the age of 19, King Bucknor Jr also known as the Black Isaiah of Africa released his second album backed by a 16 band members called \u00ab The Afrodisk \u00bb and 10 background singers . Two long and hypnotic grooves with all the afro -beat ingredients, fluid and complex drums patterns, strong horns, female voices on chorus, strong lyrics , beautiful keys and horns solos.<\/p>\n<p>Listen to <em>African Woman<\/em>:<br \/>\n<iframe style=\"border: 0; width: 100%; height: 120px;\" src=\"https:\/\/bandcamp.com\/EmbeddedPlayer\/album=1173944759\/size=large\/bgcol=ffffff\/linkcol=0687f5\/tracklist=false\/artwork=small\/transparent=true\/\" width=\"300\" height=\"150\" seamless=\"\" loading=\"lazy\"><a href=\"http:\/\/hotcasarecords.bandcamp.com\/album\/african-woman\">African Woman by King Bucknor Jr &amp; AfroDisk Beat 79<\/a><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong><em>Read next:<\/em>\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/pan-african-music.com\/en\/focus-label-hot-casa-records-julien-lebrun-interview\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Hot Casa founder Julien Lebrun&#8217;s interview<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>French label Hot Casa Records reissues African Woman, the second album from Fela Kuti prot\u00e9g\u00e9 Kingsley Bucknor Jr. Member of Fela&#8217;s Kalakuta Republic, King Bucknor Jr. was recorded in 1979 at the Emi studio in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":8592,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3944],"tags":[4069,5167,5692,5780,5788],"location":[],"yst_prominent_words":[],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pan-african-music.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42596"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/pan-african-music.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/pan-african-music.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pan-african-music.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pan-african-music.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=42596"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/pan-african-music.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42596\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pan-african-music.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/8592"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pan-african-music.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=42596"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pan-african-music.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=42596"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pan-african-music.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=42596"},{"taxonomy":"location","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pan-african-music.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/location?post=42596"},{"taxonomy":"yst_prominent_words","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pan-african-music.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/yst_prominent_words?post=42596"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}