ABOUT THIS ITEM

"The World Ends" is the latest title from Soundway Records showcasing a wave of guitar-driven and psychedelic groups that sprung up in Nigeria during the early 1970s. Featuring 32 electrifying and funk laden grooves, this is the sound of a generation attempting to pick up the pieces after the devastation of the Nigerian civil war.

As the summer of love was blossoming in London and San Francisco, Nigeria was imploding into civil war. Also known as the Biafran war of 1967, it was a grisly conflict taking over three million lives yet at the same time as the country was being pulled apart there was a new world beginning. The tracks featured represent a forgotten chapter in Nigeria’s musical history when the youth threw their varied morsels into the pot from hard rock to psychedelic soul when guitars were cherished instruments, symbolic of a new movement, when highlife and Afrobeat played second fiddle to ‘the beat’.

CD1
1. Ify Jerry Krusade – Nwantinti / Die Die
2. The Hygrades – Rough Rider
3. The Hykkers – Deiyo Deiyo (Akpuwunlobi)
4. Wrinkar Experience – Soundway
5. The Funkees – Breakthrough
6. The Mebusas – Mr. Bull Dog (45 Version)
7. Foundars 15 – Don’t Take Me For A Ride
8. Ceejebs – Eti Ufok
9. Tony Grey Super 7 – Yem Efe
10. The Identicals – Akwa Kayi Ji Bia Nuwa
11. PRO – Blacky Joe
12. Cicada – Oli Nkwu
13. The Lijadu Sisters – Life’s Gone Down Low
14. Eppi Fanio – Ikoko Ti Yio Jata (On Perseverance)
15. Bongos Ikwue – All Night Long

CD2
1. The Thermometers – Babalawo
2. Colomach – Ottoto Shamoleda
3. The Black Mirrors – The World Ends
4. The Semi Colon – Isi Agboncha
5. Lawrence Amavi Group – Money That’s What I Want
6. The Hygrades – Somebody’s Gonna Lose Or Win
7. Ofege – In Concert
8. The Elcados – Chokoi & Oreje
9. Sonny Okosuns & Paperback Limited – Ohomi
10. Chuck Barrister & The Voices Of Darkness – Be Kind, Be Foolish, Be Happy
11. Tony Grey & The Black 7 – Ugbo Ndoma
12. Reme Izabebo’s Music Research – (Ayamayama) The Same Man
13. Action 13 – Active Action
14. The Actions – Kpokposikposi
15. The Strangers – Onye Ije
16. The Comrades – Bullwalk
17. Ofo The Black Company – Egwu Aja