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Ben Okafor – Generation

  • Release date: 2006-07-17
  • Label: Plankton
  • Catalog #: PCDN 159

Track Previews

  1. 1

    Sanctify My Soul Click to preview

  2. 2

    Generation Click to preview

  3. 3

    Shadows Click to preview

  4. 4

    Tell Me Why Click to preview

Track Listing

1. She Said
2. Shadows
3. Love Train
4. Sanctify My Soul
5. Call Me
6. Living In A Suitcase
7. Generation
8. Go See

9. Be My Brother
10. Susan
11. Sweet Lady
12. Hear This Voice
13. This Is My Life
14. Tell Me Why
15. God’s World (Do The Right Thing)

Album Description

A deserved re-release of Ben s monumental 1992 masterpiece. This edition is remastered and features newly recorded versions of 3 songs that were originally recorded just after the Generation sessions but until now have been unavailable in any form.

Album Reviews

Despite growing up as a Kalashnikov-carrying teenager in war torn Nigeria, Ben later found himself working hard as a peace campaigner alongside Nelson Mandela and Bishop Desmond Tutu in South Africa. On moving to the Midlands in the late 1980s Ben recorded a string of excellent albums which borrowed heavily on the influences of his favourite artists – Jimmy Cliff, James Brown and most notably Bob Marley And The Wailers – and benefited mightily from the production talents of Bob Lamb, who produced several of UB40’s early releases. Despite being recorded in the late ’80s and early ’90s this remastered re-issue of his 1992 release still sounds totally fresh and relevant as do the three new recordings which fit seamlessly into the mood- Cross Rhythms