Dig This Way is more than delighted to announce the official reissue of The Springs Band only LP “Disko Funk” originally released under licence from Love Records to Fontana Records (Nigeria) in 1977.

The record was produced by the twenty years old Alex Tony Okoroji at the legendary ARC Studios in Lagos, a facility set-up by Ginger Baker.

This is the third production for the Alex Tony Okoroji’s fledgling independent label Love Records , the previous record was the pioneering release by Udu “Sound of the People” (Love Records, Nigeria 1976) also reissued by Dig This Way in 2020.

Musically the records are poles apart but similar in as much as both the band and producer present a personal musical vision that sounds nothing like their piers’ at the time…

The Springs Band formed in Ibadan (Oyo State) which is roughly 130km northeast of Lagos.
The seven members met while training to be Reverend Fathers for the Catholic Church and come from both Nigeria and Sierra Leone… in retrospect as unlikely as this sounds (particularly when you hear the record) the band were the Seminaries event house band at the time…

Tracklist:
A1 Disco Funk
A2 Say It
A3 Death In A Trance
B1 He Needs Somebody
B2 Brandified Dad
B3 Loves Cry
B4 Introduce Me To Your Loving