#tabansirecords

Next on @bbeafrica features Ebo Taylor’s lost sessions recorded in 1980 while on a club tour of Nigeria with his regular band. Ebo and Chief Tabansi (of #tabansi Records) decided to record a one-album session to be released exclusively on Tabansi. Unfortunately the master tapes got shelved in a dusty backroom in Tabansi’s Onitsha HQ for almost forty years. After last year deal between @bbemusic and #TabansiRecords, Joe Tabansi (Chief’s son now administrator of the label) and Peter Adarkwah (the name behind #BBEmusic) decided to reissue this masterpiece that came out on their hands with all Ebo’s own compositions played with his touring band: George Amissah, Mat Hammond, George Kennedy and George Abunuah. It will be soon released for the first time anywhere on August 30th. 🇬🇭🌍🇳🇬 . . . #akwaabaradioshow #ebotaylor #ebotaylortour #ghana #bbeafrica #bbemusic #tabansirecords #tabansi #lostnigeriansessions #jontabansi #peteradarkwah (presso Akwaaba Radio Show) https://www.instagram.com/p/B1LX4NFI9wu/?igshid=1uwb3dhveflgy

@bbemusic proudly present a sampler of its major West African label series, Tabansi Gold. Taking advantage of the growing lack of interest by the major labels in ‘local’ music, Chief Tabansi set up his own imprint in 1952, pressing up records at UAC, and promoting them through villages in ‘music vans’. By the early 70s, he was the most successful record-man in the north of Nigeria. He’d set up Tabansi Records (later renamed Tabansi Music Publishers), in Onitsha, Lagos, complete with its own studios and pressing plant, and by the 80s, with the help of his son Godwin, he was promoting and developing many of Nigeria’s young musicians. This sampler takes in just a few of the label’s highlights: the best in 70s and 80s West African highlife, afrobeat, funk, soul, boogie, disco, guitar-band bangers, soukous, rumba and major previously-unissued Ebo Taylor afrobeat/highlife masterpiece, and more. #bbemusic #bbeafrica #tabansimusicpublisher #tabansirecords 🌍 (presso The BBE Store) https://www.instagram.com/p/B0I22ZSIVHs/?igshid=piijmuigscgf