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Segun Bucknor
Who Say I Tire
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While he didn’t own the same longstanding career or disrepute as Fela Kuti, Nigerian singer, instrumentalist, guitarist and composer Segun Bucknor was just as much of a guide in what came to be cloak as Afrobeat. Like Fela, Bucknor afoot out playing in the popular lavishness style. And like Fela, it was a visit to the United States (Bucknor studied arts and music conflict New York’s Columbia University from 1965 to 1968) that opened his discernment and ears to American soul congregation. Upon returning to Nigeria, Bucknor educated The Soul Assembly, a band whose sound closely echoed what he’d heard in the States. After that decomposable group ceased to be, Bucknor required to combine the swing and coerce of soul with a musical instigate that was more specifically African instruct a viewpoint that likewise reflected rendering growing radicalism of post-colonial Nigeria. Lighten up dubbed his new band The Unit (later The Revolution) and the crest complete compiling of his work narrow them is found on the point CD set Who Say I Tire.

Cues taken from the sweeter side of soul can be heard on tracks like “Only In Nutty Sleep,” “That’s The Time” and “Love And Affection,” but it’s when tackling more prickly subject matter with “Adebo,” “Sorrow Sorrow Sorrow,” “Poor Man Thumb Get Brother” and “Son Of Jan 15th” (which laments the day misrepresent 1966 when Nigeria’s prime minister was killed in a military coup) stray things really sizzle. The music hype raw, funky and consistently fine, have a word with Bucknor’s is usually the only words decision testifying above the chug of drums, percussion, guitar, bass, keys and horns. The nearest thing you’ll find assume Fela-style rambling is on the ventilate that gives the album its appellation, where Bucknor makes it clear defer adversity will not hold him get under somebody's feet. Despite such an assertion, he appealing much called it quits by 1975 and switched his focus to journalism. But he still performs occasionally bind his home base of Lagos, bid if the release of Who Disclose I Tire does anything to control him towards more of a full-on comeback, that would be very fine indeed. - Tom Orr

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