reissue of 1976 Funk\/Afrobeat album: The self-proclaimed funkiest band on the west coast of Africa, the Heads Funk Band, could arguably make that claim for the whole continent. Featuring the slick guitar of Felix \u2018Feladey\u2019 Odey, the slinky drumming of Eddie Offeyi and the swirling keyboard chops of Kevin \u2018Fortune\u2019 Coburn, nobody was funkier. And that\u2019s not even taking into account the dance floor monsters they were releasing at the same time as Akwassa. Cold Fire was their second album as the Heads Funk Band. Where their first album, Hard World, was in a hurry to get you on the dance floor, on Cold Fire the funk is given room to breathe. The title track has a dark ghetto groove, straight from the mean streets of New York. \u2018Got To Know\u2019 has a loose, feel good vibe. \u2018Put On Your Funky Shoes\u2019 and the instrumental, \u2018Funky Port Harcourt\u2019 live up to their names. With Feladey laying down a hybrid chicken scratch\/wah-wah sound over Eddie Offeyi\u2019s assured drumming, and \u2018Fortune\u2019 Coburn supplying the free-range keyboards, this is a band at the height of their powers. Cold Fire is killer stuff and proof that in the mid-seventies Nigeria was producing the funkiest bands in the world. – Peter Moore<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
reissue of 1976 Funk\/Afrobeat album: The self-proclaimed funkiest band on the west coast of Africa, the Heads Funk Band, could arguably make that claim for the whole continent. Featuring the slick guitar of Felix \u2018Feladey\u2019 Odey, the slinky drumming of Eddie Offeyi and the swirling keyboard chops of Kevin \u2018Fortune\u2019 Coburn, nobody was funkier. And that\u2019s not even taking into account the dance floor monsters they were releasing at the same time as Akwassa. Cold Fire was their second album as the Heads Funk Band. Where their first album, Hard World, was in a hurry to get you on the dance floor, on Cold Fire the funk is given room to breathe. The title track has a dark ghetto groove, straight from the mean streets of New York. \u2018Got To Know\u2019 has a loose, feel good vibe. \u2018Put On Your Funky Shoes\u2019 and the instrumental, \u2018Funky Port Harcourt\u2019 live up to their names. With Feladey laying down a hybrid chicken scratch\/wah-wah sound over Eddie Offeyi\u2019s assured drumming, and \u2018Fortune\u2019 Coburn supplying the free-range keyboards, this is a band at the height of their powers. Cold Fire is killer stuff and proof that in the mid-seventies Nigeria was producing the funkiest bands in the world. – Peter Moore<\/p>","protected":false},"featured_media":29730,"template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false},"product_brand":[],"product_cat":[160,4577,216],"product_tag":[],"class_list":["post-29729","product","type-product","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","product_cat-funk","product_cat-funk-soul","product_cat-world-music","pa_att_artist-heads-funk-band","pa_att_format-lp-vinyl","pa_att_genre-funk-soul","pa_att_jahr-86","pa_att_label-pmg-3","pa_att_land-austria","first","outofstock","taxable","shipping-taxable","purchasable","product-type-simple"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"\n