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Muyei Power

Muyei Power has been played on NTS shows including The NTS Breakfast Show w/ Zakia, with Ben Ben Bee first played on 19 February 2015.

Muyei Power or Orchestre Muyei (muyei means ‘our country’) was one of the top dance bands of the 1970s in Sierra Leone, fusing elements of electric Congolese and Nigerian music with fast, syncopated, uptempo modernised arrangements of traditional songs. Even though lyrically Orchestre Muyei focused on traditional themes and songs, the arrangements and formulation of the instrumental side of things still very much reflected the mixed nature of urban Sierra Leone music, exemplified by a small collection of bands that…

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Soundway2014
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Muyei Power
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Makossa International Records1980
Wali Bena
Muyei PowerMakossa International Records1980
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Muyei Power
Makossa International Records1976
Ben Ben Bee
Muyei PowerMakossa International Records1976
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