Tell me stuff about highlife music

that Marijata track is great, but apart from the similar title sentiment it doesn’t have much in common with Ukwu (even apart from the fact that they’re Ghanaian, not Nigerian/Igbo). don’t think it even classifies as highlife, sounds like afrobeat to me.

which is also why it’s a weird title for the Ukwu compilation. I guess for some reason they couldn’t or didn’t want to use the “Tomorrow Is So Uncertain” title, which expresses the same sentiment, but is actually a song (and album) of his - a song that’s actually on the (5-, not 4-track) compilation, unlike what I claimed in my earlier post!

again, that new Ukwu compilation is not streamable, but all of his six albums are in fact on Spotify (twice in most cases).
I playlisted them in case anyone’s interested.
the 2022 compilation has one track from the first album (“Onwunwa”), one from the third (“Tomorrow Is So Uncertain”), and three from the fourth (“Ejina Uwa Nya Isi”, “Okwukwe Na Nchekwube” and “Ilo Abu Chi”).

just fyi, if you do want to stream the new comp specifically, it is technically possible via Bandcamp: https://mississippirecords.bandcamp.com/album/no-condition-is-permanent

I didn't immediately recognize the name, but I know “Okwukwe Na Nchekwube” from Soundway's Nigeria Special compilation, which I was excited to link you all to as it's wonderful, but it appears to have gone out of print :(

(it is ostensibly on Spotify but with many greyed out tracks: https://open.spotify.com/album/02anNBQ72TFiWjpTcyvkuW)

The Philosophers National is a very good name for a band