{"id":107766,"date":"2025-02-24T20:23:26","date_gmt":"2025-02-24T20:23:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/peraltafinancing.com\/african-music\/likembe-an-overlooked-obey-gem\/"},"modified":"2025-02-24T20:23:26","modified_gmt":"2025-02-24T20:23:26","slug":"likembe-an-overlooked-obey-gem","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/fivemor.com\/?p=107766","title":{"rendered":"Likembe: An Overlooked Obey Gem"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<div class=\"separator\" style=\"clear: both; text-align: center;\">\n<a href=\"https:\/\/blogger.googleusercontent.com\/img\/b\/R29vZ2xl\/AVvXsEjKPYQQ0piiBqX3-1aS4vHegGs8coQjbK66KEj0bDNoWpUsZmJd4baCxRJ_3DbewXm73WjbXnOqBZdvo7hrPTmzQ2Ek5LfU6awmzKlXR8wbXYg8bsYW8pMPzkOaJtUl-XlUdz38Ufl9Kmw\/s1600\/Front.jpg\" imageanchor=\"1\" style=\"margin-left: 0em; margin-right: 0em;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" border=\"0\" data-original-height=\"1600\" data-original-width=\"1600\" height=\"480\" src=\"https:\/\/blogger.googleusercontent.com\/img\/b\/R29vZ2xl\/AVvXsEjKPYQQ0piiBqX3-1aS4vHegGs8coQjbK66KEj0bDNoWpUsZmJd4baCxRJ_3DbewXm73WjbXnOqBZdvo7hrPTmzQ2Ek5LfU6awmzKlXR8wbXYg8bsYW8pMPzkOaJtUl-XlUdz38Ufl9Kmw\/s1600\/Front.jpg\" width=\"480\"\/><\/a><\/div>\n<div class=\"separator\" style=\"clear: both; text-align: left;\">\nI thought I had <i>all <\/i>of Ebenezer Obey&#8217;s great LPs from the &#8217;80s, until I came across this gem in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dustygroove.com\/\">Dusty Groove<\/a> in Chicago a few months ago.<\/div>\n<p>\nIt turns out that, while <i>Gbeja Mi Eledumare<\/i> (Afrodisia DWAPS 2252) was released in 1985, it was recorded in 1979. The reason I missed it before is that it was released on Afrodisia instead of the Chief Commander&#8217;s own Obey label. Some time in the &#8217;70s, Obey&#8217;s label, Decca West Africa, was &#8220;indigenized&#8221; and transformed into Afrodisia Records, most of its reference numbers retaining the old WAPS or DWAPS prefixes. Around the same time Obey, having obtained the rights to his archive recordings, began releasing them on the Obey imprint, again with the WAPS prefix. Newer recordings had reference numbers beginning with OPS.<\/p>\n<p>So what I think happened was that\u00a0<i>Gbeja Mi Eledumare <\/i>was recorded, never released and Afrodisia somehow retained the rights to it, only to release it a few years later. An excellent recording it is!<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/likembe.net\/Sounds\/Gbeja%20Mi%20Eledumare\/01%20Gbeja%20Mi%20Eledumare%20-%20Olorun%20Oba%20Tiwa%20Dowo%20Re%20-%20Aiye%20Ju%20Daniel%20Si%20Iho%20Kinniun%20-%20Rere%20A%20Pe%20Ika%20a%20Pe.mp3\"><b>Chief Commander Ebenezer Obey &amp; his Inter-Reformers Band &#8211;\u00a0Gbeja Mi Eledumare \/ Olorun Oba Tiwa Dowo Re \/ Aiye Ju Daniel Si Iho Kinniun \/ Rere A Pe Ika a Pe<\/b><\/a><\/p>\n<p>\nDownload\u00a0<i>Gbeja Mi Eledumare\u00a0<\/i>as a zipped file <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mediafire.com\/file\/9g2bz30cbywh3vw\/Gbeja_Mi_Eledumare.zip\/file\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<div class=\"separator\" style=\"clear: both; text-align: center;\">\n<a href=\"https:\/\/blogger.googleusercontent.com\/img\/b\/R29vZ2xl\/AVvXsEjG5bJNgBaOLZBtULwfHFFIoalY5C7kRbsS_Yb-5kacAUn_eOP3l7ndvhrhT4vmQF96Vz1OT4BOMeKAbCranym2ncMil5Pl-IxQXLeC7sSHrNAsyCWA86m3F4bc6gVamqw2sfMI2OQRzBg\/s1600\/Back.jpg\" imageanchor=\"1\" style=\"margin-left: 0em; margin-right: 0em;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" border=\"0\" data-original-height=\"1600\" data-original-width=\"1600\" height=\"480\" src=\"https:\/\/blogger.googleusercontent.com\/img\/b\/R29vZ2xl\/AVvXsEjG5bJNgBaOLZBtULwfHFFIoalY5C7kRbsS_Yb-5kacAUn_eOP3l7ndvhrhT4vmQF96Vz1OT4BOMeKAbCranym2ncMil5Pl-IxQXLeC7sSHrNAsyCWA86m3F4bc6gVamqw2sfMI2OQRzBg\/s1600\/Back.jpg\" width=\"480\"\/><\/a><\/div>\n<p><\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I thought I had all of Ebenezer Obey&#8217;s great LPs from the &#8217;80s, until I came across this gem in Dusty Groove in Chicago a few months ago. It turns out that, while Gbeja Mi Eledumare (Afrodisia DWAPS 2252) was released in 1985, it was recorded in 1979. The reason I missed it before is [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":107769,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12025],"tags":[2494,16229,30034,26148],"dealstore":[],"offerexpiration":[],"class_list":["post-107766","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-african-music","tag-gem","tag-likembe","tag-obey","tag-overlooked"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v26.4 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Likembe: An Overlooked Obey Gem - Som2ny Network<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/fivemor.com\/?p=107766\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Likembe: An Overlooked Obey Gem - Som2ny Network\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"I thought I had all of Ebenezer Obey&#8217;s great LPs from the &#8217;80s, until I came across this gem in Dusty Groove in Chicago a few months ago. 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