Disco Soccer, by Sidiku Buari

Disco Soccer

by Sidiku Buari

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Nik Havert This is one of those albums that makes you think, "Why have I never heard this until now?" when you first hear it. It combines disco, funk, and Afrobeat and makes it sound easy.

Here's my full review - www.7thlevelmusic.com?p=6983 Favorite track: I'm Ready.

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Record/Vinyl + Digital Album
Side A
A1. Koko Si
A2. I’m Ready

Side B
B1. Feed My Body
B2. It’s What’s Happening
B3. Hard Times

Side C
C1. Born With Music
C2. African Hustle
C3. Kinyi Ai Kawali

Side D
D1. Adesa A
D2. Minyo
D3. Games We Used To Play

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1.	Koko Si 04:16	buy track
2.	I'm Ready 05:30	buy track
3.	Feed My Body 03:15	buy track
4.	It's What's Happening 04:42	buy track
5.	Hard Times 04:01	buy track
6.	Born With Music 03:15	buy track
7.	African Hustle 03:12	buy track
8.	Kinyi Kawali 03:20	buy track
9.	Adesa A 03:37	buy track
10.	Minyo 03:09	buy track
11.	Games We Used To Play 03:35	buy track

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BBE Music is delighted to present the first ever reissue of ‘Disco Soccer’, the 1979 album from Ghanaian sportsman turned musician Alhaji Sidiku Buari.

Originally an athlete, winning silver and gold medals in the Senegal All Africa Games and West African Games in 1963 and a bronze in the All African in Congo Brazzaville in 1965, Buari moved to America on a music scholarship from The York Institute, obtained as a result of his athletic achievements.

Buari soon became enthused by baseball, training with the York team and occasionally playing in matches. When one of York’s music teachers heard him singing inspirational team-builder songs and chants for his side – in the Ga language- he suggested putting a rhythm section behind the songs, recording them, and seeing what the American record buying public thought of them.

It won’t surprise you to hear that said Americans loved the demos- so, in 1975, he recorded his first album – the first of fifteen. Buari went on to collaborate with Bernard Purdie, Sugar Hill’s Steve Jerome and Salsoul’s bassman, Gordon Edwards.

A switch to Polydor in 1979 produced Disco Soccer, and if you’re into disco or boogie or any hybrid thereof, this is a must-have album. A homage, Ay to Zee, to New York’s late 70s disco scene, filtered through an Accra late-night haze: Ga vocals and West African percussion all the way, all of it composed and produced by the artist himself. A generous eleven tracks of all killer-no-filler boogie business: one of those albums you just put on, and leave on.

An essential partner to BBE’s double Buari LP Feelings/Sidiku Buari & His Jam Busters, Disco Soccer is reissued from the original masters and reproduced on 180-gram vinyl with new liner notes and original artwork.

credits

released October 18, 2019

Cello – John Reed
Executive Producer – M. Lee.
French Horn – Christine Snyder, Valerie West
Percussion – Errol 'Crusher' Bennett
Photography – Harry Delauney, Stan Keitt
Producer, Arranged By – Buari
Saxophone – George Young, Michael Brecker
Trombone – Barry Rogers
Trumpet – Jon Faddis, Randy Brecker
Violin – Danny Reed, Lucy Corwin, Paul Scales, Bob Rozek, Stan Curtis

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