Rocafil Jazz

Led by highlife vocalist Prince Nico Mbarga, Rocafil Jazz was among Nigeria’s most influential sets of the ’70s and early ’80s. Their recording, Sweet Mother, offering the ten-minute, midtempo name track, remains among the biggest-selling recordings in African background. Relating to Nigerian literary critic Chikwenya Ogunyemi, “‘Nice Mother'” is even more widely recognized compared to the Nigerian nationwide anthem. You can wish it had been the nationwide anthem, due to its ability to pull people collectively. Rocafil Jazz’s mixture of tribal rhythms and Traditional western pop harmonies dominated Nigerian airwaves in the time prior to the rise of juju and Fuji. The music group remained faithful with their guitar-band version of Western African hard-driven rhumba. Explaining the group, http://www.afroplus.com wrote that this six-piece music group “swings as well as sweet, machine-like accuracy.”