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01. THE BETA YAMA GROUP - Living With Friends
02. THE BETA YAMA GROUP - Te Revior
03. THE BETA YAMA GROUP - Rain
04. THE BETA YAMA GROUP - She's Got All I Want
05. THE BETA YAMA GROUP - Free Love
06. THE BETA YAMA GROUP - Revolution
ARTIST
TITLE
Free Love
FORMAT
CD

LABEL
CATALOG #
PMG 052CD PMG 052CD
GENRE
RELEASE DATE
5/12/2017

PMG present a reissue of The Beta Yama Group's Free Love, originally released in 1980. "It's hard to get a handle on Nigerian musicians Nash Dodoo, Charlie Cuul and Jonas Caulley. In 1980 they released an album of face-melting gospel boogie as the BML Chapels. And in the same year, calling themselves the Beta Yama Group, they put out Free Love, a belated love letter to San Francisco's Summer of Love and an album altogether focused on more worldly concerns. Free Love is a small slice of Haight-Ashbury transported to the Polygram Studios in Lagos. 'Te Revoir' is Mamas & Papas jamming with Sergeant Pepper's Beatles. 'Free Love' offers a respectful nod towards Je T'aime-era Serge Gainsbourg. Sure, 'Revolution' gets hard and funky and 'Rain' flirts briefly with a calypso reggae sound, but the majority of the album is cheesecloth and flowers in your hair. Insanely rare - and worth buying for the freaky cover art alone - Free Love is a funky, reverb heavy call for love, peace and sweet, sweet loving. What more could you want from an album?" --Peter Moore