Ibibio Sound Machine – Live at Earth (2020)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/44,1 kHz | Time – 01:27:35 minutes | 1,09 GB | Genre: World
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Merge Records
This was the biggest show on our recent UK tour and also our biggest London headline show to date. It’s always really special playing to your hometown crowd, and this gig was no exception. It was the culmination of our 2019 touring following the release of our third album Doko Mien. Looking back, it all seems like a world away, even though it was only about 9 months ago. Hopefully days like this will return soon!
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Ibibio Sound Machine – Electricity (2022)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/44,1 kHz | Time – 48:25 minutes | 555 MB | Genre: Funk, Disco, Electronic, Female Vocal
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Merge Records
Electricity was produced by the Grammy Award– and Mercury Prize–nominated British synthpop group Hot Chip, a collaboration born out of mutual admiration watching each other on festival stages, as well as a shared love of Francis Bebey and Giorgio Moroder. The fruits of their labor reveal a gleaming, supercharged, Afrofuturist blinder. Electricity is the first album Ibibio Sound Machine have made with external producers since the group’s formation in London in 2013 by lead singer Eno Williams and saxophonist Max Grunhard. True, 2017’s Uyai featured mixdown guests including Dan Leavers, aka Danalogue, the keyboard jedi in future-jazz trio The Comet Is Coming, but Hot Chip and Ibibio Sound Machine worked together more deeply throughout the process, collaborating fully. Along the way, the team conjured a kaleidoscope of delights that include resonances of Jonzun Crew, Grace Jones, William Onyeabor, Tom Tom Club, The J.B.’s, Jon Hassell’s Fourth World, and Bootsy Collins.
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