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Music Album We've Got To Live Together

We’ve Got To Live Together

This first solo album captures the various rhythms of the Nigerian pop scene of the late seventies and early eighties.

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Music Album Root Of African Rhythms

Root of Afrikan Rhythms

This is an album of artistic songs and rhythms that capture many aspects of traditional African music rhythms.

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Music Album Back To Your Roots

Back To Your Roots

This album was created to demonstrate the relationship of most dance and music rhythms in African polyrhythms.

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Igbo Voices © 1998

FOLK SONGS

1. Anna Nwa mma © 1999

2. Dim e © 1999

3. Wa-jo (Egwu Ngala) © 1999

Wa-Jo (Egwu Ngala) is an original West African traditional recreation dance created by Chinyeaka Okoli. It is a blend of Igbo and Yoruba traditional music rhythm. Wa-Jo in Yoruba Language means “Come Dance”. Egwu Ngala in Igbo language means “show-off dance” So the music is saying to all, “come and do the show off dance”.

4. Ifenine Zu’lo’ke Na’n’Igbo © 1999
5. The Spirit World of Afrika © 1995
6. Egwu Amala © 1999
7. Egwu Be Eze © 1999
8. Gini Kam Geme © 1999
9. Dim Lee © 1999
10. Onwu Bu Onye Ori © 1999

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Copyright © 1999/2003

Children’s Fun Theme © 1999

This is a two-tracks single written by Chinyeaka Okoli for Tina Nykulak for Channels 2&7 Television Show “Bumper’s Tree House”.

The tracks appear in this order:

1. Bumper’s Treehouse Song (Intro)

2. Bumper’s Treehouse Song (Extro)

This song was written by Chinyeaka Okoli, assisted by Tina Nykulak.
Our thanks go to Dale McKenzie for the intro voice.
Recorded, Mixed and Mastered by Chinyeaka Okoli for Afrikanata.
An Afro Foundation Records (AFR) Music Production. (AFR/CMRRA) ©1999
Bumper’s Treehouse Song (Intro)  © 1999

Other Songs

3. DOSALOSA – (Shosalosa)

This was a tune adapted from South African Song, “Shosalosa” which is the depiction of the sound made by the then Locomotive Engine Train called “STIMELA” as it shuttles from place to place. We adapted this tune for a Dance Drama Presentation “OZIDDI” by Theatre Arts Department of the University of Jos. We were to perform for the Independence of Zimbabwe but it did not work out as planned due to circumstances. I sang the song to Prof. Shabalala of “Lady Smith & The Black Mambasa” when he visited Calgary, Alberta, Canada. We were to work and perform the song during his next visit in Summer. I left Canada for Nigeria shortly after. The version rendered here is as I wrote for Afro Foundations Group of Calgary, Alberta Canada (My own Cultural Entertainment Group).

4. Predators And Preys

This was a single tune mirroring the Political exploitation of the masses by the ruling class. The song draws a picture of the lives of Leopards, Lions etc as against their Preys. When these predators are fully fed, they stop hunting. They hunger only when they are hungry. Unlike them, our African Leaders are the greedy Predators. Even when they have fed, they continue to hunt and kill and eat without stopping. This song was to have been released under “Back To Your Roots.”
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