While we’re dancing in the disco: here’s some infectious disco-adjacent jungle funk from Kofi Ayivor, who comes all the way from… (checks biog)… Amsterdam. But where is he *really* from, do I hear you ask?

I’m sure I don’t, because you’re not a lady-in-waiting to the queen. But if you were to pose that question, and I were to answer without taking vicarious offence on behalf of Mr Ayivor, I would say: Nigeria.

This tune, and another – A Song For You (Ayawa) – come from Kofi’s self-titled 1981 debut album and have been re-released on a new 12-inch single, with remixes by his fellow Amsterdammer, DJ and producer Mendel.

If the name Kofi is at all familiar, he was once a percussionist in Osibisa and later a producer of Brit-funkateers Hi-Tension, before finally making his own solo album in 1980, combining his skills as a master drummer with the then-prevalent disco sound.

His mission, he says, is to critically examine the difference – and similarities – between African music and the elements of it that have been incorporated into popular Western music.

Musicians on both these tunes include superstars sof the time like Eddy Grant on guitar, Osibisa members Kiki Gyan and Jake Sollo, and Theadora Ifudu on improvised backing vocals.

Somehow, down the years, the original album, released on CBS’s Nigerian imprint, faded into obscurity and was lost, but 40 years later original copies are highly sought-after and selling for triple figures on the second-hand market.