Mary Afi Usuah Ekpenyong Abasi

• Mary Afi Usuah – Ima Mma Uyem
• Mary Afi Usuah – From Me To You
• Mary Afi Usuah – Afia Mma (Hulalah)
• Mary Afi Usuah – Mma Ama Mbo
• Mary Afi Usuah – Ekpe
• Mary Afi Usuah – Call Me Your Love
• Mary Afi Usuah – Ekpenyong Abasi
• Mary Afi Usuah – Ebre Mbre

• 1. Ima Mma Uyem
• 2. From Me To You
• 3. Afia Mma (Hulalah)
• 4. Mma Ama Mbo
• 5. Ekpe
• 6. Call Me Your Love
• 7. Ekpenyong Abasi
• 8. Ebre Mbre

A stupendous blend of scintillating highlife, smoking Fela and spaced-out, funkdafied Black Jazz, from 1975 - Mari Affiong Usuah from Oron town, by way of Calabar in southeastern Nigeria, fronting a knockout band led by Daniel 'Satch' Asuquo from the Atomic 8 (and formerly of Bobby Benson's orchestra). The Afrofunk cuts are especially killer - with James Brown just percolating through by the end - but it's a stunning, magnificent album, through and through. Beautifully sleeved, too, with excellent notes by Uchenna from Comb & Razor. 'Gob, smacked,' he recalls, of his first listen; 'mind, blown'.