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Roots Funkadelia

by Remi Kabaka

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  • Record/Vinyl + Digital Album

    Includes digital pre-order of Roots Funkadelia. You get 1 track now (streaming via the free Bandcamp app and also available as a high-quality download in MP3, FLAC and more), plus the complete album the moment it’s released.
    shipping out on or around June 7, 2024
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      £28 GBP or more 

     

  • Compact Disc (CD) + Digital Album

    Includes digital pre-order of Roots Funkadelia. You get 1 track now (streaming via the free Bandcamp app and also available as a high-quality download in MP3, FLAC and more), plus the complete album the moment it’s released.
    shipping out on or around June 7, 2024
    Purchasable with gift card

      £14 GBP or more 

     

  • Streaming + Download

    Pre-order of Roots Funkadelia. You get 1 track now (streaming via the free Bandcamp app and also available as a high-quality download in MP3, FLAC and more), plus the complete album the moment it’s released.
    Purchasable with gift card
    releases June 7, 2024

      £7 GBP  or more

     

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Afro Beat
2.
Togetherness
3.
Festival
4.
Ikaope
5.
Funky Lagos 05:09
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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’.

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releases June 7, 2024

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