Singer: Mary Afi Usuah
Title: Ekpenyong Abasi ‎
Label: Voodoo Funk ‎– VFLP9
Type: Vinyl, LP, Album, Reissue, Stereo
Country: Germany
Date of released: 22 Jun 2015
Category: Funk / Soul, Folk, World, & Country
Style: African, Afrobeat, Funk, Gospel, Highlife
Size MP3 zip: 1343 mb
Size FLAC zip: 1324 mb
Rating: 4.6✭
Format: MP3 ADX RA WMA DMF MOD WAV MP4 FLAC

Tracklist

A1	Ima Mma Uyem
A2	From Me To You
A3	Afia Mma (Hulalah)
A4	Mma Ama Mbo
B1	Ekpe
B2	Call Me Your Lover
B3	Ekpenyong Abasi
B4	Ebre Mbre

Notes

PRESS RELEASE: A stupendous blend of scintillating highlife, smoking Fela and spaced-out, funkdafied Black Jazz, from 1975 — Mari Affiong Usuah from Oron town, by way of Calabar in southeastern Nigeria, fronting a knockout band led by Daniel ‘Satch’ Asuquo from the Atomic 8 (and formerly of Bobby Benson’s orchestra).

The Afrofunk cuts are especially killer — with James Brown just percolating through by the end — but it’s a stunning, magnificent album, through and through.

Beautifully sleeved, too, with excellent notes by Uchenna from Comb & Razor. ‘Gob, smacked,’ he recalls, of his first listen; ‘mind, blown’.

Other versions

Category	Artist	Title (Format)	Label	Category	Country	Year
SESCULT 01	Mary Afi Usuah With The SES Cultural Centre Band*	Mary Afi Usuah With The SES Cultural Centre Band* - Ekpenyong Abasi ‎(LP, Album)	SESCULT	SESCULT 01	Nigeria	1975
VFCD 9	Mary Afi Usuah	Ekpenyong Abasi ‎(CD, Album)	Voodoo Funk	VFCD 9	France	2015

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