Irina Shtreis takes a closer look at Ifetayo – an Afro-centric 1976 album by the unique Trinidadian Black Truth Rhythm Band which is reissued by Soundway Records this month
Ifetayo by Black Truth Rhythm Band
While leafing through issues of Black Music from 1976, then the UK's leading periodical dedicated to tracking the progress of disco, funk, reggae and soul, the reader is gifted great features on Marvin Gaye, Earth, Wind & Fire, James Brown and Bob Marley and The Wailers. It is a document of the mainstream being shaken up by American and Jamaican popular music, some with strong and newly found interest in multiple African influences. Despite nearly most of the attention being given over to Western hybrid forms, sometimes...
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