Adzagli (Jungle Funk), by Kofi Ayivor

Adzagli (Jungle Funk)

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12" black vinyl housed in a printed outer sleeve. Features never-before-seen photos of Kofi Ayivor, interview-based liner notes and Mendel remixes produced using original multitrack analogue master tapes.

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Includes unlimited streaming via the free Bandcamp app, plus high-quality downloads of Doing Our Thing With Pride (Single), Party Time (Odo Ye Wu), Sending All My Love Out (inc. Egyptian Lover & Detroit In Effect Remixes), Adzagli (Jungle Funk), Rock & Roll Skate, Prisoner Of My Weakness, Borga Revolution! Ghanaian Dance Music In The Digital Age, 1983-1996 (Volume 2), Love Will Set You Free, and 30 more. , and , .

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1.	Adzagli (Jungle Funk) (Mendel Mix) 06:10	buy track
2.	Adzagli (Jungle Funk) 05:04	buy track
3.	A Song For You (Ayawa) (Mendel Mix) 04:30	buy track
4.	A Song For You (Ayawa) 05:54	buy track

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Kalita are excited to announce the first ever re-release of ‘Adzagli (Jungle Funk)’ and ‘A Song For You (Ayawa)’, two phenomenal pieces of West African disco from Amsterdam’s Kofi Ayivor. Selected from his sought-after Nigerian 1981 self-titled debut album ‘Kofi’, at last these two recordings see the light of day once more via a loud-cut remastered 12” single. In addition, Kalita enlists fellow Amsterdam resident, DJ and producer Mendel to create his own remix of each recording, using the original multitrack session tapes to rework both for the modern-day dancefloor.

After having experienced life travelling with E.T. Mensah, as a percussionist for Afro rock supergroup Osibisa, and then as producer for Brit funk band Hi-Tension, in 1980 Kofi decided it was time to release his own solo album. With his own release, he could showcase his skills as a master drummer, combining these with the prevailing disco sound that had by this time taken over Western and West African airwaves. As he recalls, ‘all this time, especially on Osibisa's United States tour, I began to critically examine the difference between our native African music and the element of it that had been incorporated into popular Western music. And so my search began to find a modern African sound’.

Kofi was joined on both recordings by various musical superstars of the time, including Osibisa members Kiki Gyan and Jake Sollo, Eddy Grant on guitar and Theadora Ifudu on improvised backing vocals, and in 1981 the album was released on CBS’ Nigerian imprint. Unfortunately, without a touring sponsor and much label support the record soon faded into obscurity, and the record was lost.

Now, forty years later and with original copies highly sought-after and selling for triple figures on the second-hand market, Kalita unearth this masterpiece once more, accompanied by two remixes courtesy of Mendel.

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released July 21, 2023

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