Remi Kabaka – Roots Funkadelia (1980/2024) [FLAC 24bit/44,1kHz]

Remi Kabaka – Roots Funkadelia (1980/2024)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/44,1 kHz | Time – 31:23 minutes | 351 MB | Genre: Funk, Afrobeat
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © BBE Africa

Following the great success of BBE’s 2023 reissue of Remi Kabaka’s 1976 lost masterpiece ‘Son of Africa’ comes yet another neglected and hitherto-hidden slice of pure Kabaka goodness: 1980’s ‘Roots Funkadelia’.

While the 1976 album was recorded at Island Studios London, roots was recorded and mixed in L.A. in the midst of a golden period for the Motown studios, and the sheer quality of the mix shows in spades. An unexpected but welcome bonus is the appearance throughout of the ‘mean machine’- Motown artists the commodores’ brass section alter-ego.

Released in 1980 on Polygram Nigeria with no international distribution deal, and lurking almost unnoticed in a handful of dedicated afro vinyl collections, this is the first-ever reissue outside Africa of an album that regularly fetches £500 plus on the ‘those who know’ market’.

Tracklist:

1-01. Aderemi Kabaka – Afro Beat (07:21)
1-02. Aderemi Kabaka – Togetherness (06:45)
1-03. Aderemi Kabaka – Festival (04:03)
1-04. Aderemi Kabaka – Ikaope (08:02)
1-05. Aderemi Kabaka – Funky Lagos (05:09)

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