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Try And Love

by Ofege

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  • Record/Vinyl + Digital Album

    A1 NOBODY FAILS 4.24
    A2 WHIZZY ILABO 3.32
    A3 GBE MI LO 4.15
    A4 TRY AND LOVE 4.19

    B1 IT’S NOT EASY 4.25
    B2 OFEGE 4.00
    B3 YOU SAY NO 4.09
    B4 LEAD ME ON 3.23

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1.
Nobody Fails 04:23
2.
Whizzy Llabo 03:32
3.
Gbe Mi Lo 04:15
4.
Try And Love 04:19
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Ofege 04:00
7.
You Say No 04:09
8.
Lead Me On 03:22

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New from Strut, a fresh reissue of the classic debut album Try And Love from one of Nigeria’s most celebrated Afro-rock bands, Ofege.

Formed by guitarist Melvin Ukachi and bassist Paul Alade while young students at St Gregory’s school in Lagos, Ofege first found their feet borrowing instruments and supporting school band The Groove Makers. Discovering drummer M-ike Meme by chance at a school dance and adding Dapo Olumide on keys and Felix Inneh on
rhythm guitar, they met EMI’s resident producer / A&R man, Odion Iruoje who promptly auditioned them. Sneaking them out of school to record their first sessions (Ofege literally means “breaking bounds”), Iruoje honed the band into a tighter unit and their debut album Try And Love was recorded at EMI’s Studios in 1972. “Odion was like a Sergeant Major, explains Ukachi. “He drilled us for the whole day until we became tight.”

The album caught the imagination of a young Nigerian crowd fascinated by the new teen band and Ofege joined a fresh wave of homegrown artists coming through in the wake of Fela’s towering influence and other Afro-rock bands like Monomono, Ofo The Black Company and Blo (Blo’s Berkley Jones contributed wild guitar solos to this album and continued working with the band). Try And Love mixed driving Afro-funk and rock tracks like the instrumental ‘Gbe Mi Lo’ and ‘Whizzy Llabo’ about a fellow student with hair like a wizard. Ukachi also contributed ballads including the title track and ‘It’s Not Easy’, most recently featured in TV series What We Do In The Shadows.

Ofege’s Try And Love is remastered by The Carvery and features an exclusive new interview with bandleader Melvin Ukachi. Package features full original artwork.

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released July 13, 2022

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