The Story
Digitally remastered two-fer containing a pair of original albums by the undisputed king of Juju music on one disc. Following the success - critical and commercial - of 1982's Juju Music, there followed Syncro System (1983) and Aura (1984). Both continued the style and sound which had taken everyone by surprise on Juju Music. Feted with awards and success down the years, the spread of world music over the past three decades can easily make one take it all for granted. You can easily breeze over the times when this form of music was seen as daring. King Sunny Ade And the African Beats were the band who brought it all into focus for the rest of us. Remember that when you're listening to these two albums. Not only are they hugely entertaining, but rivetingly this isn't part of history - it IS history. T-Bird. 2010.
Description
Digitally remastered two-fer containing a pair of original albums by the undisputed king of Juju music on one disc. Following the success - critical and commercial - of 1982's Juju Music, there followed Syncro System (1983) and Aura (1984). Both continued the style and sound which had taken everyone by surprise on Juju Music. Feted with awards and success down the years, the spread of world music over the past three decades can easily make one take it all for granted. You can easily breeze over the times when this form of music was seen as daring. King Sunny Ade And the African Beats were the band who brought it all into focus for the rest of us. Remember that when you're listening to these two albums. Not only are they hugely entertaining, but rivetingly this isn't part of history - it IS history. T-Bird. 2010.
