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Odu (CD)

By: King Sunny Ade (Artist)
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DISC 1 for Odu (CD) Album By King Sunny Ade (Artist)
1   Jigi Jigi Isapa
2   Easy Motion Tourist
3   Alhaji Rasaki
4   Mo Ri Keke Kan
5   Kiti Kiti
6   Natuba
7   Aiye Nreti Eleya Mi
8   Ibi Won Ri O
9   K'awa To Bere
10   Eri Okan :: Conscience
11   Kini Mba Ro
 
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Q (Magazine) (p.153) - "[T]he softly chanted vocal harmonies and bubbling rhythms of songs such as 'Jigi Jigi Isapa' cast a distinctively West African spell."

Title Note

Personnel: King Sunny Ade (vocals, guitar); John Akpan (guitar); Olusegun Ilori (tenor guitar); Biodun Fatoke (steel guitar); Jonah Samuel (keyboards, Hammond B-3); Remi Abegunde, Kenneth Okulolo (bass); Nojeem Lasisi (drums, sakara); Mustapha Lawal, Ali Mohammad (drums); Kingsley Iguma Arase (congas); Michael Babalola (maracas); Gani Alashe (shekere); Dare Falade (bells, blocks); Shina Omoroga, Femi Owomoyela, Lasisi Wahab, Gbadura Babatola (background vocals).

Recorded at Dockside Studios, Maurice, Louisiana in July 1996. Includes liner notes by King Sunny Ade.

All tracks have been digitally mastered using HDCD technology.

ODU was nominated for a 1999 Grammy for Best World Music Album.

Fear not--King Sunny is back, and he's got more proverbs and grooves coming direct from Nigeria to your spirit. Guitarist/vocalist Ade and The African Beats tear it up in their own mellow fashion on ODU. The album has the feel of a celebration, and in keeping with the contemporary Afro-pop tradition, it drops knowledge as it jams. Somehow the rhythm section, made up of several guitars, keyboards, drums and bass, is as fluid as it is mighty. The talking drum is used masterfully, its voice a meld of percussion and melody. West African-style slide licks and call-and-response guitar riffs pervade throughout.

King Sunny has been called a "modern traditionalist," and it is an apt description of this man's musical world. To listen to these songs is to know a certain cultural timelessness, to absorb traditional Yoruba wisdom to the sound of the talking drum alongside the synthesizer. ODU is another jewel on the King's crown in the growing world of Afro-pop.

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