When i first heard it, i was really confused: where is this music going? But like all good music, it gets under your skin and stays there.
And it's a peculiar language too: what about a track called 'Vbenogawemwinghaye'?
Richard Ugiagbe - Ihomwan
Wednesday, March 30, 2011
Richard Ugiagbe
One of the fascinating features in African music is that each ethnic group has it's own musical preferences. This is very much true of Nigerian Highlife: even if you don't understand the language, you can hear the difference between Ibo and Niger-delta highlife. The most eccentric form of highlife is for me Edo (or Bini) highlife. Of course, it's most famous representative Victor Uwaifo is very much a mainstream musician, but listen to this Ricard Ugiagbe recording: really something else.
When i first heard it, i was really confused: where is this music going? But like all good music, it gets under your skin and stays there.
And it's a peculiar language too: what about a track called 'Vbenogawemwinghaye'?
Richard Ugiagbe - Ihomwan
When i first heard it, i was really confused: where is this music going? But like all good music, it gets under your skin and stays there.
And it's a peculiar language too: what about a track called 'Vbenogawemwinghaye'?
Richard Ugiagbe - Ihomwan
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Hello,my name is Simone Carcano,I'm Italian, I married a Nigerian woman and I really like the highlife music ,I know Richard Ugiagbe , I had one of his very old type but I've lost it now and I can not find anything of his,the title are "Richard Ugiagbe and His Band of Benin" , provided me great pleasure when I found this song on youtube,can you help me to find other songs of Ugiagbe?
You'd be very grateful :-)
thanks bro!
can you please re-upload this track? the link appears to have died.
We have set up a page:
http://www.facebook.com/pages/Richard-Ugiagbe-and-His-Afro-Ministers-Band/518065328236130
Please re-up this! Thanks in advance.
I'd love to hear the entire album. Your description really raised my curiosity, and that was only furthered by the single cut somebody's placed on Youtube. I hope you do re-upload this Ugiagbe's entire album at some point--but in any case, thanks for demonstrating the remarkable character of Edo Highlife.
Pls reupload this album. File is deleted.
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