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Ubok Aka Inua

Artists

Etubom Rex Williams & His Nigerian Artistes

Labels

We Are Busy Bodies

Catno

WABB-114

Formats

1x Vinyl LP Album Limited Edition Reissue Remastered

Country

Canada

Release date

Mar 4, 2022

Genres

Funk / Soul Folk, World, & Country

Styles

Afrobeat Highlife




Originally released in 1976, Ubok Aka Inua is the fifth album by legendary Nigerian saxophonist and band leader, Etubom Rex Williams.

The album features Psychedelic Shoes and One Woman Is Enough Trouble, both heard on countless funk and soul compilations.

The album was restored from the original tapes by Noah Mintz and artwork restored and recreated by Steve Lewin.

"Etubom Rex Williams occupies the genuine space of legend of Nigerian Highlife. His incredible professionalism, vast body of work and huge personality, established him as a veritable force of the genre quite early in his career. A case quite similar to another teenage prodigy of Highlife Music, Sir Victor Uwaifo. However any accolades he earned were well deserved and based on a platform of hard graft and genuine love for his art. He like Uwaifo, straddles the Inter-generational gap between the old masters of Highlife such as Bobby Benson, E.C.Arinze, Inyang Henshaw, Dr Victor Olaiya etc and the latter generation of Eddy Okweddy, Orlando Owoh, Tunji Oyelana, Eric Akaeze, Osayomore Joseph et al." - Ed Keazor, Music in Africa

Media: Mi
Sleeve: M

$29.57*

*Taxes excluded, shipping price excluded

WABB-114 - CA - 2022

A1

Ubok Aka Inua

A2

Nwa Anwanwa

A3

Psychedelic Shoes

B1

One Woman Is Enough Trouble

B2

Uwa Idem Mi Part Two

B3

Ama Mbre Ewa

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