I had fun today putting this mix together. It’s not perfect but -ach- who needs or wants perfection? Anyway, as usual it’s mostly vinyl (except for four tracks) and starts off with some jazz or jazz-adjacent music before dipping into Latin jazz, straight up Strata East/Blue Note greatness and then into a few different tunes that have Nigeria as a common thread. Including all 18 minutes of that Fela Kuti/Roy Ayers banger. Finally onto some dubbier sounds, finishing with the post-punk band Maximum Joy. So yeah, some of it didn’t quite come off as I’d hoped; I probably should have left out the Ami Taf Ra track as it jars with the Lee Morgan before it and the Pharoah afterwards, but what the hell. I love it and wanted to get it in! Thanks in advance for listening.
Nala Sinephro – Grand Prix
Andrew Wasylyk – Awoke In The Early Days Of A Better World
Pat Metheny Group – The First Circle
Finn Rees & Sholto – Love In Memory
Gabor Szabo – Space
Okay Temiz – Penguin
Aura Safari & Jimi Tenor – Lunar Wind
Johnny Liebeck Group – Sunset Islands
Eddie Palmieri – Covarde
Maynard Ferguson – Wack-Wack
The Heath Brothers ft Stanley Cowell – Smilin’ Billy Suite Part I
Stephen McCraven – Allah
Charles Tolliver – Paper Man
Lee Morgan – Psychedelic
Ami Taf Ra ft Ryan Porter – Love
Pharoah Sanders – Ore-Se-Rere (Nigerian Juju Highlife)
Ray Stephen Oche & His Matumbo – Trumpet Calls The People Of Nigeria
Oluko Imo – Were Oju Le (Eyes Are Getting Red)
Fela Anikulapo Kuti & Roy Ayers – Africa – Center Of The World
Revolutionaries – MPLA
The Juks – Dub To Jordan
Maximum Joy – Silent Dub
Lonesome Tonight 