Thursday, May 26, 2022
Ibibio Sound Machine on their album Electricity and breaking down musical boundaries
By Lucy Hallam
Meeting Ibibio Sound Machine, the groove-riding octet funking up southern Nigerian culture in the shadow of adversity
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Ibibio Sound Machine (photography: Simon Webb)
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