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Revolution (Live Disco Show In New York City) (2lp)

Sidiku Buari

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Format: 2LP

Cat No: BBE612ALP

Format Details: Live Disco Show In New York City

Release Date:  31 January 2020

Label:  Bbe Africa / Barely Breaking Even

Packaging Type:  Gate Fold Vinyl

No of Units:  2

Barcode:  194491273088

Genres:  R&B  Funk  

Release Date:  31 January 2020

Label:  Bbe Africa / Barely Breaking Even

Packaging Type:  Digipak

No of Units:  1

Barcode:  194491284862

Genres:  R&B  Funk  

  • Description

    Revolution (Live Disco Show In New York City) is the fourth and final BBE reissue of Sidiku Buari's unique and sought-after body of African Disco albums.Side 1 is (possibly!) 'live' throughout, from a 1979 show at the (possibly mythical!) La Cheer Nightclub, NYC, but very well recorded for a 'live' album with clean, bright top notes, sharp percussion and heavy bass-lines.
    Keep The Rhythm Going segues into Ofey Karambani reminiscent of the Kongos' massive Loft Club floorfiller Anikana-O, whilst This Is Music and Disco Soccer keep up the 120-140bpm pace to complete a side that rocks enough for the lazier DJ to play from start to finish without lifting the needle!

    Side 2 consists of four very varied tracks all recorded at Aire L.A.Studios, the two openers Revolution and Together We Can Rebuild It (Ghana Motherland) being polemics against government and army corruption, and a battle-cry for Flight Lieutenant Jerry Rawlings, who ruled the country for a brief period in 1979 when this recording was made, later serving as Ghana's President from 1981 to 2001. Then there's a perennial crowd-pleaser Merry Christmas and Happy New Year, Side 2 rounding off with the super-heavy Afrobeat-Disco groover, Happy Birthday.

    Originally a national athlete, winning silver and gold medals in the Senegal All Africa Games and West African Games in 1963 and a bronze in the All African in Congo Brazzaville in 1965, Sidiku Buari then moved to America on a music scholarship at The York Institute, obtained as a result of his athletic achievements. When one of York's music teachers, Irvin Mechanic, heard him singing in the Ga language- he suggested putting a rhythm section behind the songs, recording them, and seeing what the American record buying public thought of them. Four classic albums followed in quick succession, after which Buari's solo output abruptly ceased. But it was an ending that held within it the seeds of greater musical achievements to come. In 1990 he was appointed to the board of the Musicians' Union of Ghana.

    Description

    Revolution (Live Disco Show In New York City) is the fourth and final BBE reissue of Sidiku Buari's unique and sought-after body of African Disco albums.Side 1 is (possibly!) 'live' throughout, from a 1979 show at the (possibly mythical!) La Cheer Nightclub, NYC, but very well recorded for a 'live' album with clean, bright top notes, sharp percussion and heavy bass-lines.

    Keep The Rhythm Going segues into Ofey Karambani reminiscent of the Kongos' massive Loft Club floorfiller Anikana-O, whilst This Is Music and Disco Soccer keep up the 120-140bpm pace to complete a side that rocks enough for the lazier DJ to play from start to finish without lifting the needle! Side 2 consists of four very varied tracks all recorded at Aire L.A.Studios, the two openers Revolution and Together We Can Rebuild It (Ghana Motherland) being polemics against government and army corruption, and a battle-cry for Flight Lieutenant Jerry Rawlings, who ruled the country for a brief period in 1979 when this recording was made, later serving as Ghana's President from 1981 to 2001.

    Then there's a perennial crowd-pleaser Merry Christmas and Happy New Year, Side 2 rounding off with the super-heavy Afrobeat-Disco groover, Happy Birthday.

    Originally a national athlete, winning silver and gold medals in the Senegal All Africa Games and West African Games in 1963 and a bronze in the All African in Congo Brazzaville in 1965, Sidiku Buari then moved to America on a music scholarship at The York Institute, obtained as a result of his athletic achievements.

    When one of York's music teachers, Irvin Mechanic, heard him singing in the Ga language- he suggested putting a rhythm section behind the songs, recording them, and seeing what the American record buying public thought of them.

    Four classic albums followed in quick succession, after which Buari's solo output abruptly ceased.

    But it was an ending that held within it the seeds of greater musical achievements to come.

    In 1990 he was appointed to the board of the Musicians' Union of Ghana.

  • Tracklisting

      Disc 1

      Side 1

      • 1. Keep The Rhythm Going
      • 2. Ofey Karambani

      Side 2

      • 1. This Is Music
      • 2. Disco Soccer

      Disc 2

      Side 1

      • 1. Revolution
      • 2. Together We Can Rebuild It (Ghana Motherland)

      Side 2

      • 1. Merry Christmas And Happy New Year
      • 2. Happy Birthday

    Tracklisting

    1. Keep The Rhythm Going
    2. Ofey Karambani
    3. This Is Music
    4. Disco Soccer
    5. Revolution
    6. Together We Can Rebuild It (Ghana Motherland)
    7. Merry Christmas And Happy New Year
    8. Happy Birthday