• Lord Nelson – Lord Nelson - Shango
    • Lord Nelson – Lord Nelson (Daniel Haaksman & DJ Beware remix) - Shango
    • 1. Lord Nelson - Shango
    • 2. Lord Nelson (Daniel Haaksman & DJ Beware remix) - Shango

    1978 Bass-heavy, 4/4 afrobeat/caribbean dancefloor bomb from Trinidad! 

    Taken from the 1978 Charlies LP ‘Black Gold’, ‘Shango’ was produced by Clive Bradley – one of Trinidad’s top producers in the 1970s. With ‘Shango’ Nelson follows a tradition of calypso and soca tracks that focus on the shango cults of Trinidad and Tobago that have their roots in the religion of the Yoruba people of Nigeria. With it’s driving 4/4 beat, traditional instrumentation and choral chants it was a step away from his trademark poppy and soul-flavoured soca-funk sound of the late 70s

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