Synchro System - AFRICAN POP
Released: Oct 14, 2003
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Released: Oct 14, 2003
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From the king of juju came this release of 1983, making use of some extra synthesizer-type sounds, as the title vaguely suggests. The sound is the general form of the new juju held up by Sunny Ade....
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Oro T'Onlo
Released: Oct 7, 2003
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Released: Oct 7, 2003
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Hooray for the African Sounds label! They are reissuing the vintage King Sunny Ade albums: the albums that made him the King of Juju in his homeland of Nigeria. It's got all the talking drums,...
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Synchro Series
Released: Apr 22, 2003
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Released: Apr 22, 2003
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Definitely (and literally) an album of two halves -- indeed, this is two albums (originally released in 1982 and 1983, respectively) on one CD. Made for Ade's home Nigerian market, they fall either...
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Best of the Classic Years
Released: Feb 11, 2003
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Released: Feb 11, 2003
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If you want to delve into Ade's work before Island tried to make him into a star in the 1980s, this is the perfect place to start. The tracks here, recorded between 1969 and 1974 for the Nigerian...
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The King of Juju: The Best of Sunny Ade
Released: Oct 15, 2002
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Released: Oct 15, 2002
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A greatest-hits collection of King Sunny Adé's surprisingly large output. For this album, the focus was certainly on the island releases by the juju master, but also taken into account in the...
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Classics, Vol. 6: Merciful God and Baba More Pe O
Released: Nov 27, 2001
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Released: Nov 27, 2001
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Released in 1987, Merciful God wasn't King Sunny Ade's best album -- a simple listen to the title track again after its reworking in the mid-'90s makes that quite apparent. The music isn't bad, by...
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