Alhaji Chief Kollington Ayinla & His Fuji '78 Organization | Blessing - Hex Record Shop

Alhaji Chief Kollington Ayinla & His Fuji '78 Organization | Blessing

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This is the first in Soul Jazz Records’ new series of one-off pressings of limited-edition 1000 copies vinyl-only releases of Afro-funk/Afro-beat exact-replica, super-rare albums that were previously only ever released in Nigeria.

The series starts with Kollington Ayinla’s celebrated 1978 album ‘Blessing,’ a rare lost classic of Nigerian Fuji music, featuring Ayinla’s sharp political lyrics together with his new band Fuji ’78. ‘Blessing’ blends the heavily percussive style of Fuji music with a stunning array of modern instruments, including synthesizers, Bata drums and guitars, to create one of the most forward-thinking and heavily danceable sounds ever to come out of Nigeria – a highly successful mixture of profound Fuji rhythms and Fela Kuti-style Afrobeat.

Kollington Ayinla ranks alongside his friend and competitor Ayinde Barrister as the two most important artists to dominate Fuji music from its inception in the 1970s through to the 1990s by which time it had grown to become one of the most popular dance genres in Nigeria. At the start of the 1980s Ayinla started his own record company, Kollington Records, to release his music and remains to this day an extremely prolific artist, having recorded over 50 albums, most of which have never been released outside of Nigeria.

A1 E Ye Ika Se
A2 Oromo Adie Fo
A3 Ko S'Ohun Tan O Le Fi Gberaga
A4 Adio Shile
A5 Won Ti Gbe Oye Fun Mi
B1 Pataki L'Omo
B2 To Ba Jisoro Mi
B3 Engineer Olatunji / Iya Suna
B4 Odun Titun De
B5 Ao Toro Emi Gesa Fun Enia
B6 Ki Aiye Ma Gbagbe Mi