Documentary Screening “Who Is William Onyeabor?” and DJ Set with Dan Lo

Thu 07 Aug 2014, 8 pm
ATK

From the organizer:

This is a night to celebrate the Nigerian funk musician and band-leader, William Onyeabor, who had a series of records in the late 70s and 80s which exalted him into an iconic status in the history of Nigerian pop, often considered the founder of Nigerian electro Afro-funk.

His biography has been shrouded in mystery due to his own refusal to discuss it or his music since becoming a born-again Christian in the middle of the 1980s and retiring to pursue a career as a businessman running his own flour mill.

We will show the recent documentary about the mysterious man, Fantastic Man, and follow it up with a set from Saigon’s Afrobeat expert Dan Lo [The Observatory / Eclectic Aesthetic], who will be in charge of the decks all the night long, set to put William Onyeabor classics on alongside many other Afro hits, leading up to their influence on sounds of today.

Entry VND 50,000