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Guitar Boy Superstar 1970-1976 | 
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| Artist: Victor Uwaifo
Label: Soundway
Category: Music
Buy New: $19.98
New (32) Used (5) from $13.07
Rating:  2 reviews
Sales Rank: 22738
Media: Audio CD
Discs: 1
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.2
Dimensions (in): 5.6 x 5 x 0.5
MPN: 12
UPC: 827565038626
EAN: 0827565038626
ASIN: B0019H9WCA
Release Date: July 8, 2008
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| Tracks:
| • | Kirikisi | | • | Igboroho | | • | Idogo | | • | Egbe Natete | | • | Edenederio | | • | Obodo Eyo | | • | Talking Instruments | | • | Agho | | • | Iye Iye Oh | | • | Mother Witch | | • | Atete | | • | Ebibi | | • | Osalobua Rekpama | | • | Do Lelezi | | • | Akuyan | | • | Dododo | | • | Madaka | | • | Happy Day from Me to You | | • | West African Safari |
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| Editorial Reviews:
Album Description
Guitar-Boy Superstar is the first survey of the long career of the legendary Nigerian musician, artist and poet Victor Uwaifo, one of Nigeria's greatest stars -- a long-overdue release that puts Victor Uwaifo next to other Nigerian greats better known in the West. Victor Uwaifo's mission to spread and preserve the cultural heritage of ancient Benin (Modern day Edo State, Nigeria) has seen him work as a commissioner for cultural affairs in his native Edo State, a University lecturer, acclaimed bronze sculptor and poet as well as a highly successful musician. He has been awarded Nigeria's highest cultural tribute -- the order of the Niger, and continues to teach and work today with an energy that has not abated for nearly fifty years. Cutting his musical teeth with Victor Olaiya ("the evil genius of highlife") in the early '60s, he went on to form his own band The Melody Maestros, producing Nigeria's biggest-ever selling record with Joromi in 1965, for which he was awarded Africa's first gold disc. He has continued to produce some of the most popular and engaging music in Nigeria ever since. This album focuses on his early 1970s musical output. Uwaifo invented a unique style of highlife music that he called ekassa -- based on ancient rhythms and fused with modern highlife instrumentation and just a dash of rock and soul.
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| Customer Reviews:
Vibrant African pop from the early 1970s December 3, 2008
These are great, groovy, classic recordings of electrified Nigerian guitar pop from the early 1970s. There are really great, wild innovative riffs, particularly on the opening tracks. If you like the hypnotic, multi-layered highlife and juju guitar music from West Africa, this is definitely an album you'll want to check out. (DJ Joe Sixpack, Slipcue World Music Guide)
breezy highlife with fuzzy afrobeat undertones September 4, 2008
2 out of 2 found this review helpful
This incredible music has elements of both the breezy and the fuzzy. Its like afrobeat meets nuggets. Every track is quality. Soundway is not messing around with these compilations, they've handpicked 19 gems from what I can only assume is a massive catalog of the great Victor Uwaifo.
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