Wake Up You (Vol. 2), by Now-Again Records

Wake Up You (Vol. 2)

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Rock in the wake of war: Our decade long investigation into Nigeria’s rock music scene during the 1970s culminates in the release of two album and books.

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1.	Theodore Nemy - Come Back 04:05	buy track
2.	Funkees - Slipping Into Darkness 04:23	buy track
3.	Hykkers - I Want A Breakthrough 03:01	buy track
4.	Hygrades - In The Jungle (Vocal) 03:17	buy track
5.	Shadow Abraham With Monomono Friends - Babalawo 03:22	buy track
6.	Waves - Wake Up You! 04:01	buy track
7.	War-head Constriction - Shower of Stone 03:38	buy track
8.	Question Mark - Love 05:12	buy track
9.	Action 13 - Set Me Free 03:24	buy track
10.	Jay U Experience - Baby Rock 05:17	buy track
11.	Doves - Flying Bird 03:33	buy track
12.	Kukumbas - Awa Lani Arawa 03:45	buy track
13.	Believers - Life Will Move 05:16	buy track
14.	Tony Grey & The Black 7 - The Feelings 04:47	buy track
15.	Ceejebs - Life In Cannan 03:04	buy track
16.	The Identicals - Who Made The World? 04:34	buy track

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The Western world was in the throes of peace, love, and flower power as Nigeria descended into Civil War in 1967. The rock scene that developed during the following three years of bloodshed and destruction would come to heal the country, propagate the world-wide ideal of the Modern Nigerian, and propel Fela Kuti to stardom after conflict ended in 1970.

Wake Up You! tells the story of this time, pays homage to these now-forgotten musicians and their struggle, and brings to light the funk and psychedelic fury they created as they wrested free of the ravages of the late 1960s and created thrilling, original Nigerian rock music throughout the 1970s.

Wake Up You! is presented in two 100+ page books full of never-seen photos and the story of the best Nigerian rock bands told in vivid detail by musicologist and researcher Uchenna Ikonne

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released April 20, 2016

This compilation produced by Eothen Alapatt and Uchenna Ikonne.
Liner notes by Uchenna Ikonne, edited by Eothen Alapatt.

Restoration and remastering by Dave Cooley for Elysian Masters, Los Angeles.
Art direction by Errol Richardson for Busy Monster, Toronto, Canada.
Cover photography by Gilles Caron.

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Now-Again Records Los Angeles, California

Now-Again Records is the imprint founded by Eothen Alapatt 2002. He oversees all of the label’s reissues and manages a vast catalog of music from the 1950s through the present day, with a focus on the mid-1960s through the mid-1980s.

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