{"id":42947,"date":"2016-07-29T15:49:34","date_gmt":"2016-07-29T14:49:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/pan-african-music.com\/soul-jazz-records-explore-nigerian-music-in-the-60s-from-calypso-highlife-apala-mambo-juju\/"},"modified":"2016-07-29T15:49:34","modified_gmt":"2016-07-29T14:49:34","slug":"soul-jazz-records-explore-nigerian-music-in-the-60s-from-calypso-highlife-apala-mambo-juju","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pan-african-music.com\/en\/soul-jazz-records-explore-nigerian-music-in-the-60s-from-calypso-highlife-apala-mambo-juju\/","title":{"rendered":"Soul Jazz Records explore Nigerian music in the 60’s : from Calypso, Highlife, Apala, Mambo & Juju !"},"content":{"rendered":"

The UK label\u00a0Soul Jazz Records explore Nigeria Freedom Sounds – A stunning\u00a0collection of Nigerian musics from early\u00a0\u00a060’s !<\/p>\n

On\u00a0octobre 1st, 1960, Nigeria became\u00a0independant after British colonization. At that time,\u00a0Nigerian music was\u00a0diverse and forward-thinking, with musicians as excited in exploring their country\u2019s own musical lineage with styles such as Juju and Apala as they were in adapting and absorbing outside influences such as Ghanaian Highlife<\/strong>, Caribbean Calypsos<\/strong> and Mambo<\/strong> and more.<\/p>\n

This album features many of the defining artists of this time who helped shape the Nigerian musical scene. Artists include I.K. Dairo and his Blue Spots, Haruna Ishola and his Group, E.C. Arinze, Sammy Akpabot and His All Stars, Godwin Omobuwa and his Soundmakers, Ganiyu Kale and His Guinea Mambo Orchestra and many more.<\/p>\n

Few nations on earth are as diverse as Nigeria, and the wide assortment of Nigerian music styles collected on this album reflect the country\u2019s rich variety of cultures. Western-influenced dance music, played on European instruments such as guitar, brass, and woodwind sits alongside traditional musical styles, made with indigenous instruments such as the talking drum, marimba, or obo. And there is also religious musical styles first brought to Nigeria by European Christians and Islamic traders from North Africa. And of course, there are points where these musical styles overlap, merging into one another to create unique new sounds.<\/p>\n

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Listen to the 23 tracks and explore the different faces of Nigerian music\u00a0of\u00a0the 60’s, from\u00a0Calypso, Highlife, Apala, Mambo & Juju !<\/p>\n

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The album-package includes a 48-pages book\u00a0with public records and pictures\u00a0contenant from the 60’s. Available in physical\u00a0en physique HERE<\/a>.\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n

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The UK label\u00a0Soul Jazz Records explore Nigeria Freedom Sounds – A stunning\u00a0collection of Nigerian musics from early\u00a0\u00a060’s ! On\u00a0octobre 1st, 1960, Nigeria became\u00a0independant after British colonization. At that time,\u00a0Nigerian music was\u00a0diverse and forward-thinking, with musicians […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":1203,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"location":[],"yst_prominent_words":[],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pan-african-music.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42947"}],"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=42947"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/pan-african-music.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42947\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pan-african-music.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1203"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pan-african-music.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=42947"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pan-african-music.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=42947"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pan-african-music.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=42947"},{"taxonomy":"location","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pan-african-music.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/location?post=42947"},{"taxonomy":"yst_prominent_words","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pan-african-music.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/yst_prominent_words?post=42947"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}