Title
Uto Nwa / Osi Na Ngada

Artist(s)
Section
Catalog Number
ASS-004
Format
7"
Description

"Contemporary Afro-funk aficionados need not feel inadequate for not having heard of the musicians known as Tex Soul - even at the peak of his brief career in the mid-1970s, he never approached widespread national recognition in his native Nigeria. Unheard-of in the dance halls and on the radio waves of the country's principal metropolis of Lagos, Tex Soul was a hero in the Eastern city of Aba, where his prowess as the consummate entertainer lived as the stuff of local legend. As a performer who could dance like James Brown, play the guitar like Jimi Hendrix, and belt out a song with the soulfulness of ages, Tex Soul's name was prefixed by the word 'Showman," almost as a permanent honorific. Now Voodoo Funk and Academy Records are proud to expose this tragically overlooked artist to a new audience, digging deep to unearth the single Uto Nwa b/w Osi Na Ngada, recorded by Tex in 1972 with his early soul group The Bayonets, forgotten even by the hardest Aba scenesters!"
From Forced Exposure website

Original Release Date
1972
Purchase Date
5/1/2018
Store
Som Records, DC
Price Paid
$9.99
Version Release Date
2012
Country(s)
Nigeria
Record Label(s)
Academy LPs
Genre(s)