Soul Jazz’ latest album Yoruba! Songs & Rhythms for the Yoruba Gods in Nigeria is newly recorded in Lagos, Nigeria. The album is co-produced by label head Stuart Baker and Laolu Akins (founding member of the legendary 1970s Nigerian Afro-Funk/Rock group Blo).
Yoruba! features an array of local master drummers led by Olatunji Samson Sotimirin and singers (featuring the lead vocals of Janet Olufanmilayo Abe) performing heavyweight Afro-rhythms, with talking drums, Bata and Dundun drums and a mass of percussion in these deep spiritual and sacred songs used to honour and worship the traditional and ancient Yoruba gods in Nigeria, West Africa. The enormous impact of Yoruba and West African music and culture is worldwide…
…- from the first Afro-centric explorations of African- American jazz musicians in the 1950s such as Art Blakey, Randy Weston and Dizzy the explosion of Nu Yorican Latin music in New York City starting in the 1960s – Mambo, Boogaloo, Latin funk and soul – through to the sacred and powerful Afro-derived music of the religions of Santería in Cuba, Candomblé in Brazil and Voodoo in Haiti, which all came into existence on account of the Atlantic slave trade which began over 400 years ago.
On a wider scale West African music remains the primary root of all African-American musical forms – from New Orleans jazz to Bronx rap, gospel, soul and more. This album features songs honouring the Nigerian gods of the Yoruba traditional religion – Yemoja, Obatala, Ogun, Sango and others – as well as a selection of instrumental cuts focusing on the Bata and Dundun drums.
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Wooden Shjips, long-time leaders of the contemporary psychedelic movement, expand their sound with V. The quartet of Omar Ahsanuddin, Dusty Jermier, Nash Whalen and Ripley Johnson augment their already rich sound with laid back, classic summer songs. The songs were written during the summer of 2017 by singer and guitarist Ripley Johnson as an antidote to the pervasive anxiety both political and natural. As Ripley tells it, “We had huge forest fires just outside of Portland and there was intense haze and layers of ash in the city. I was sitting on my porch every evening, watching ash fall down like snow, the sky looking like it was on fire. It was an apocalyptic feeling. Summer in Portland is usually really chill and beautiful, and we were working on a ‘summer record,’ but the outside world kept intruding on my headspace.” V., a graphic representation of the Peace sign, seemed apt to an album focused on the power of peace, beauty and resistance. The music is a balm against the noise and negativity.
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Although their live shows are best known for their electrifying and explosive energy, Scottish superstar rock trio Biffy Clyro have often demonstrated that their songs possess an added poignancy when stripped back to their essence. Now the band can announce details of their first acoustic album, MTV Unplugged: Live At Roundhouse London to be released on May 25. Album pre-orders begin today. Click here or here to pre-order and get an instant audio/video download of “Many Of Horror”.
Recorded at London’s famous Roundhouse venue on November 8 last year, the set represented the U.K. relaunch of the iconic MTV Unplugged series. The set is rich with favorites from the Biffy Clyro catalogue. “Machines”, from 2007’s Puzzle is already long established as a highlight of the band’s live shows as frontman Simon Neil performs accompanied by a single acoustic guitar, while the likes of “Many of Horror”, from Only Revolutions (2010), “Re-arrange” and “Medicine” from their current album Ellipsis (2016) are all natural fits for an Unplugged performance. Yet the band also flourish with stripped-back performances of songs that were more aggressive and dramatic in their original form, such as “The Captain” (Only Revolutions), “Black Chandelier” from the album Opposites (2013) and “Bubbles” (Only Revolutions).<
The album also presents some special treats for Biffy fans. A bold take on the Beach Boys’ classic “God Only Knows” is an undoubted highlight, while a brand new original song is also included in the shape of “Different Kind of Love”.
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