In Heavy Rotation: William Onyeabor – World Psychedelic Classics 5: Who Is William Onyeabor? – Luaka Bop

Onyeabor

William Onyeabor – Good Name

From the picture on the cover, you might think the answer to the question, “Who Is William Onyeabor?” is some kind of Black JR Ewing from Dallas, but you’d be wrong…Onyeabor put out some very distinctive funk out of Nigeria in the 1970s. Luaka Bop has decided to shine a light on his music as part of their resurgent World Psychedelic Classics series (last year’s addition was the very necessary collection of Tim Maia’s 1970s output) and it’s an absolutely worthy addition. Almost all of the songs are around 10 minutes but none of them disappoints or loses your attention and all of them certainly keep you moving.

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