The Beta Yama Group - Free Love - LP Vinyl

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SKU:
c0011982
UPC:
710473190664

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Album:
Free Love
Artist:
The Beta Yama Group
Format:
12" Vinyl
UPC:
710473190664

Description

LP version. PMG present a reissue of The Beta Yama Group's Free Love, originally released in 1980. It's hard to get a handle on Nigerian musicians Nash Dodoo, Charlie Cuul and Jonas Caulley. In 1980 they released an album of face-melting gospel boogie as the BML Chapels. And in the same year, calling themselves the Beta Yama Group, they put out Free Love, a belated love letter to San Francisco's Summer of Love and an album altogether focused on more worldly concerns.

Free Love is a small slice of Haight-Ashbury transported to the Polygram Studios in Lagos. 'Te Revoir' is Mamas & Papas jamming with Sergeant Pepper's Beatles. 'Free Love' offers a respectful nod towards Je T'aime-era Serge Gainsbourg. Sure, 'Revolution' gets hard and funky and 'Rain' flirts briefly with a calypso reggae sound, but the majority of the album is cheesecloth and flowers in your hair. Insanely rare - and worth buying for the freaky cover art alone - Free Love is a funky, reverb heavy call for love, peace and sweet, sweet loving. What more could you want from an album?


A1 Living With Friends
A2 Te Revior
A3 Rain
B1 She's Got All I Want
B2 Free Love
B3 Revolution