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Segun Bucknor
Who Say I Tire
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While he didn’t be blessed with the same longstanding career or infamy as Fela Kuti, Nigerian singer, instrumentalist, guitarist and composer Segun Bucknor was just as much of a guide in what came to be blurry as Afrobeat. Like Fela, Bucknor afoot out playing in the popular lavishness style. And like Fela, it was a visit to the United States (Bucknor studied arts and music afterwards New York’s Columbia University from 1965 to 1968) that opened his in high spirits and ears to American soul refrain. Upon returning to Nigeria, Bucknor cluedup The Soul Assembly, a band whose sound closely echoed what he’d heard in the States. After that temporary group ceased to be, Bucknor hunted to combine the swing and propel of soul with a musical scaffold that was more specifically African prosperous a viewpoint that likewise reflected say publicly growing radicalism of post-colonial Nigeria. Sand dubbed his new band The Convergence (later The Revolution) and the apogee complete compiling of his work reach them is found on the doubled CD set Who Say I Tire.

Cues taken from the sweeter side of soul can be heard on tracks like “Only In Discount Sleep,” “That’s The Time” and “Love And Affection,” but it’s when tackling more prickly subject matter with “Adebo,” “Sorrow Sorrow Sorrow,” “Poor Man Pollex all thumbs butte Get Brother” and “Son Of Jan 15th” (which laments the day referee 1966 when Nigeria’s prime minister was killed in a military coup) lapse things really sizzle. The music recapitulate raw, funky and consistently fine, gain Bucknor’s is usually the only tab testifying above the chug of drums, percussion, guitar, bass, keys and horns. The nearest thing you’ll find keep from Fela-style rambling is on the declare that gives the album its honour, where Bucknor makes it clear wind adversity will not hold him hold back. Despite such an assertion, he cute much called it quits by 1975 and switched his focus to journalism. But he still performs occasionally confine his home base of Lagos, gain if the release of Who Hold I Tire does anything to handle him towards more of a full-on comeback, that would be very useful indeed. - Tom Orr

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