 | |  | | enlarge | | | | tracklists of Blo Chapters & Phases | | 1.Preacher Man
2.Time To Face The Sun
3.Beware
4.We Gonna Have A Party
5.Don't
6.Chant To Mother Earth
7.We Are Out Together
8.Miss "Sagitt"
9.Blo
10.It Sgonna Be A Good Day
11.Native Doctor
12.Do It You'll Like It
13.Don T Take Her Away From Me
14.Whole Lot Of Shit
15.Atide
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| Lagos-based trio BLO shook the Nigerian scene to its foundations with their their Afro-rooted rock music. Their live debut in December 1972 found 10,000 new converts chanting "we want BLO" over and over again. Their Afro-delia looked far afield for inspiration: drummer Laolu Akintobi said "we were listening to Grand Funk Railroad and The Isley Brothers and thought we should be able to do this in an African way." A further inspiration was Ginger Baker for whom both Akintobi and BLO's Berkley Jones played and toured with in 1971.
BLO's first two albums, 1973's Chapter One and 1975's Phase 2, are amazing fusions of traditional rhythms and American psychedelia that evoke a spacier Tago Mago'-era Can. [...more...]
tagi: WORLDMUSIC psychedelic ROCK AFRO FUNK ON1 and THE COMPLETE ALBUM | |
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