{"product_id":"akalaka-the-power","title":"Akalaka \/ The Power","description":"[[Release Detail]][[Release Description]]\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan class=\"caps\"\u003eBBE\u003c\/span\u003e Music presents Akalaka and The Power, a double helping of old-school Igbo highlife from one of the genre’s acknowledged masters, Victor Chukwu.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eHighlife was the music that the Igbo people made their own after the horrors of the Biafran war; music that rebuilt a sense of pride, identity and dignity. Tabansi recording star ‘Uncle’ Victor Chukwu’s super-rare, almost un-Google-able albums Akalaka and The Power are now in your hands, issued back-to-back by \u003cspan class=\"caps\"\u003eBBE\u003c\/span\u003e for the first time anywhere in four decades.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThese sets were probably recorded around 1977-79 at the Tabansi Studios in Onitsha, with Chief Tabansi also mixing and mastering: a 100% homegrown Tabansi product. Victor worked with a bassist, a drummer, and some brass- although he also doubled himself on tenor sax and arranged much of these glorious sessions.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe songs have an inimitable feel-good quality: happy, dignified, proud, spiritual, everything except one composition in a major key. Perhaps it’s no surprise that many 70s and 80s Igbo highlife group members are today gospel singers and musicians.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eSeven killer Igbo grooves combined in this first ever reissue of two impossible-to-find Tabansi LPs back to back, based around the traditional Ogene 6\/8 bell ‘clave’ and brass-heavy, spiritual highlife.\u003c\/p\u003e[[Selling Points]]\u003cul\u003e\n\t\u003cli\u003eFirst ever reissue of two impossible-to-find Tabansi LPs\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e[[Catalog Number]]BBE508ALP[[Artist]]Victor Chukwu","brand":"BBE Music","offers":[{"title":"Akalaka \/ The Power \/ Vinyl \/ 2LP Black","offer_id":43959761502453,"sku":"BBE508ALP","price":32.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0080\/6417\/2096\/files\/tmp_2F1600888769855-ywrvs0yvhml-7d710906cb6c9d09ab1553072523b0cd_2FBBE508.jpg?v=1690528852","url":"https:\/\/lightintheattic.net\/products\/akalaka-the-power","provider":"Light in the Attic","version":"1.0","type":"link"}