Various Artists
Living Is Hard: West African Music In Britain, 1927-1929
Various Artists - Living Is Hard: West African Music In Britain, 1927-1929 (2LP)
Made in London, these recordings were issued originally by the Zonophone record label over three years from late 1927.
The first West African Zonophone recordings date from 1922, when the Reverend J. J. Ransome-Kuti — Fela’s grandfather — travelled from Nigeria to Britain, to record Christian hymns in Yoruba. Notables of 1925 sessions included the Pan-African activist Ladipo Solanke, who had come to Britain three years earlier to study Law; and Roland Nathaniels, also resident in Europe at this time, who soon afterwards recorded for Odeon in Germany, before returning to the Zonophone studios in 1927 (probably doubling as an A and R man).
- 01 oni johnson - garse yer fido
- 02 isaac jackson - nitsi koko ko ko
- 03 ben simmons - blank
- 04 harry e quashie - anadwofa
- 05 ben simmons - mu kun sebor wa wu
- 06 douglas papafio - kuntum
- 07 prince zulamkah - ligiligi
- 08 the west african instrumental quartet - adersu no 2
- 09 the ga quartet - abowe dsane nmaka tso
- 10 domingo justus - buje
- 11 ben simmons - obu kofi
- 12 james tucker - rue bai rue bai
| 2LP | Honest Jons: HJRLP033 | out of stock |
