A Think Africa Press review by James Bullock:
More hereIbibio Sound Machine are a London-based eight-piece fronted by British-Nigerian singer Eno Williams and Ghanaian virtuoso guitarist Alfred ‘Kari’ Bannerman, and backed up by six more truly cosmopolitan musicians. Fittingly, their debut album encapsulates this international diversity and combines the fun and colourful sounds of West African funk, disco and soul with London’s own bass culture. The band's Nigerian influences shine through and, in Soundway Record’s signature style, the track titles appear in both Ibibio and English on the album. But for all the various inspirations behind the record's soundscape, this is no clunky fusion.
