Name: Crashes In Love
Brand: William Onyeabor

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375 Media

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Version 1

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Limited edition

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Format Music EU

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Extended format: No

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Rough Trade Exclusive: No

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Signed copies: No

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Release date

2015-11-27

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Catalogue number

5119211

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680899503112

Version 2

5119221

680899503211

Artist

William Onyeabor

Label EU

Luaka Bop

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Rest of World

Since its founding in 1989, Luaka Bop has introduced artists like Os Mutantes, Shuggie Otis, Tim Maia, and William Onyeabor to the world. It has also become home to a diverse range of artists including Floating Points, Tom Zé, Javelin, Moreno Veloso, Janka Nabay, Delicate Steve and Bright Moments. Previously associated with Warner Bros, Narada/Virgin/EMI and V2; Luaka Bop has been an independent label since 2006.

William Onyeabor (born 29 March 1946 – died 16 January 2017) was a Nigerian funk singer and songwriter. He studied cinematography in Russia for many years, returning to Nigeria in the mid-1970's to start his own music label and to set up a music and film production studio. He recorded a number of hit songs in Nigeria during the 1970's, the biggest of which was ‘Atomic Bomb’ in 1978.

Newest Listed Items

Stand alone vinyl reissue of 'Body and Soul' originally released in 1980. 'Body and Soul', the title track off his next album, has made its rounds on open-minded dancefloors via a few different 12" pressings. It scans as Afrobeat while maintaining a slack beat, suggesting downtempo, reggae, funk and disco, with modular synth bleeps without ever being beholden to any one of them. Instead Onyeabor (dapper in a white tuxedo on the album sleeve) testifies to his love of music, body and soul. But the rest of the album maintains a relaxed grip on Afrobeat, 'The Way to Win Your Love' urgent in its pleading if not its meter. While on 'Poor Boy,' Onyeabor's keyboard blurts are hurried and the interplay between horns, drums, and synths are some of the most intricate to date.

Crashes In Love

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