{"product_id":"victor-chukwu-akalaka-the-power","title":"Victor Chukwu Akalaka \/ The Power","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 \u003cul\u003e\n\t\u003cli\u003eFirst ever reissue of two impossible-to-find Tabansi LPs\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e BBE508ALP -Artist-Victor Chukwu\u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eFormat Detail: 2LP Black\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eHandling Note: **Please allow an additional 5 business days for this item's shipment.**\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eInternal ID: JIT\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eGenre: World Music\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eFormat: Vinyl\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eReleased: 9\/23\/20\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e","brand":"Victor Chukwu","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":53427381371064,"sku":"19K5KS-YDO6-FT","price":38.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0630\/9222\/8280\/files\/victor-chukwu-akalaka-the-power_6AvOZ.jpg?v=1777661263","url":"https:\/\/musicrecordshop.com\/products\/victor-chukwu-akalaka-the-power","provider":"Music Record Shop","version":"1.0","type":"link"}