Talazo Fuji Music Party!: Green Vinyl LP Shida Shahabi Steinway and Sons Artist

Steinway and Sons Artist

out and available to stream now

Out of print on LP for a number of years

Spoken word interludes appear like magnifying glasses over a bloodstained map of the UK

The 7" presents two further gems: a concise edit of the lengthy title track from a 2005 12” tour EP from CWAS regulars The American Analog Set

Talazo Fuji Music Party!: Green Vinyl LP Shida Shahabi Steinway and Sons ArtistBack in Nigeria in 1995 everybody knew King Wasiu Ayinde Marshal I. Just about every house party and club floor, every shop front and car window, pulsed to such megahits as Talazo and Consolidation; to the percussion rich polyrhythms and Yoruba chants typical of Fuji music, a genre this one time roadie (for Fuji music icon Ayinde Barrister) had customised by adding more percussion congas, the sakara frame drum and an attitude straight off the street.