EBENEZER OBEY Eyi Yato - Original OTI press – Afro Funk Highlife – Nigeria 1981

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CHIEF COMMANDER EBENEZER OBEY and his Inter-Reformers Band: “Eyi Yato”

Label: Oti

Label Number: OTI (LP) 508

Original 1981 Press of this Yoruba/ Juju Highlife masterpiece

GRADING:

LP Record: Side 1: Excellent/ Side 2: VG++ - has a few scuffs but plays excellent but marks which are superficial are clearly visible being 2 big scuffs and a couple of hairlines

Jacket: VG++

Some words on this issue: Chief Commander EBENEZER OBEY AND HIS INTER-REFORMERS BAND: “Fijiyato” (OTI – Otilp-508) Totally wicked disc filled to bursting with cutting riffs, wailing vocals lines and out-of-this-world, demented uplifting swirling dervish-like slide guitar extravaganza. Hypnotic, ethic based tribal infused, Nigerian high life spiked and psyched out killer slide. Obey was – although being a shadowy figure on the Nigerian High Life scene – quite a prolific character releasing quite a bunch of records but he never achieved the international profile of Ade. Still he actually preceded the latter in the attempt. In 1980, he licensed six albums to the London-based OTI label (including Current Affairs and What God Has Joined Together). Lacking the promotional and financial muscle of a larger label like Island Records, with whom Ade signed in 1982, OTI were unable to sell Obey outside the expatriate Nigerian market and a small number of white enthusiasts. This disc here is one of those releases on the OTI imprint and although it was an 80s release does not sound like one. It rather has a distinct late 70s deranged African psych induced High Life atmosphere hovering all over it, a fact that gets even enhanced by Ebenezer’s highly unique alienated slide guitar riffage.

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Our grading scale: Mint/ Near Mint/ Excellent/ VG++/. We don’t sell anything below VG++. VG++ grade is basically that the record has some scuffs and has wear. Excellent: record has hardly no visible defects and is preserved with care and attention, the condition most collectors take pride in to file away. Near Mint: a dash below mint, just perfect. Mint: like new.

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