R.I.P. William Onyeabor 2017-01-19 by theBonerKing | 9 Comments | Nigerian musician and businessman William Onyeabor died in his home in Nigeria on Monday, January 16. He was 70 years old.
After recording and self-releasing a number of groundbreaking synthesizer-heavy Afro-funk records in the 1970s and 1980s, Onyeabor converted to Christianity and abandoned recording to pursue a business career. He was named the West African Industrialist of the Year in the late 1980s. His music work remained largely unrecognized in the world at large until 2013, when Luaka Bop released the compilation album Who Is William Onyeabor? as part of their World Psychedelic Classics series. That album was followed in 2014 by a comprehensive career-retrospective box set, also released by Luaka Bop.
Listen to "Atomic Bomb":
Source: http://www.theguardian.com/music/2017/jan/18/who-was-william-onyeabor-nigerian-synthesizer-whiz
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RIP
I'd only heard that Who Is William Onyeabor? comp a couple times before and not for a year or two, but I'm definitely going to revisit it now.
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After hearing about his passing, I've gone out of my way to find out more about him and he's a truly fascinating character. Planning on going through his discography in honor of his death.
Also I highly recommend this short documentary on him, great stuff
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GiaRp0M2fxE
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Not surprised to see you here Ferro, his stuff was definitely your kind of thing
May give that doc a look, sounds interesting
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The stuff I heard from him in that doc was really cool, so you'd be right about this being my kinda thing. Though the first time I had heard about him was through that one Car Seat Headrest song lol
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oh yeah I forgot he was mentioned in that CSH song, that's probably the first time a lot of people heard of him haha
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RIP. Love his music.
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only heard 'anything you sow' but that was awesome
rip
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RIP
http://qz.com/889363/nigerian-music-star-william-onyeabor-the-hipsters-favorite-has-died-at-70/
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Bless his soul. Crashes In Love is a jam and a half.
Planning on going through his discography in honor of his death. [2]
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