A Life In The Limelight (Lagos Disco & Itsekiri Highlife 1976-1981) (Vinyl LP) Soul Funk & Disco

A Life In The Limelight (Lagos Disco & Itsekiri Highlife 1976-1981) (Vinyl LP) Soul Funk & DiscoKalita are honoured to release the first ever compilation focusing on the musical career of Julie Coker, the queen of Nigerian television. Here they collate seven of Julie's most sought after Afro disco and hauntingly beautiful Itsekiri highlife recordings, accompanied by extensive interview based liner notes and never before seen photos. After gaining fame as Miss Western Nigeria 1957, Julie began her career in the Nigerian entertainment industry as

nice and warm

which was arranged by Keith Mansfield

a privately pressed Afro Jazz Folk UFO album recorded in 1980 by the Cameroonian Singer

Rescued from a professionally recorded concert at the University of Michigan

Daltrey and company may have played loud

it was ranked at #13 on Rolling Stone's 2003 list of the "500 Greatest Albums Of All Time" was inducted into the National Recording Registry by the Library of Congress in 2006

Witch Egg is a improvised set of songs by John Dwyer

his album combines James Brown style 70s funk with a stripped down Afrobeat sound

This is quite a journey that Ellister has brought inside his crystal ball by showing us the 22nd and 23rd century

Brilliant music on many levels

Pat became established as one of Ghana's biggest musical draws

and Coney Island Baby found Reed actually writing recognizable love songs for a change