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    Odion Iruoje Down To Earth

    Soundway
    • Odion Iruoje – Identify With Your Root (Which One You De?)
    • Odion Iruoje – Anogo - Giri
    • Odion Iruoje – Ikebe
    • Odion Iruoje – Alhaja And Obiageri
    • Odion Iruoje – Love Care
    • Odion Iruoje – Aro Affair (Crazy Scene)
    • 1. Identify With Your Root (Which One You De?)
    • 2. Anogo - Giri
    • 3. Ikebe
    • 4. Alhaja And Obiageri
    • 5. Love Care
    • 6. Aro Affair (Crazy Scene)

    The only LP by Nigeria's number-one producer of the 70's and 80's, 'Sound President' Odion Iruoje - credited as being the man who signed Fela Kuti to EMI Nigeria and produced all of Fela's revolutionary early material from 1970-73.

    'Down To Earth' was originally produced on his own label Odion Ltd and released in 1983, this over-looked and obscure LP was originally only ever distributed in small numbers back in the early 1980s. Part disco, part Nigerian rap, Afro-funk & Juju it's a unique and at times eccentric blend of Nigerian music that certainly deserves another look after all these years.

    180g vinyl limited to 1000 copies worldwide!!!

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