Babatunde Olatunji - Shango (Chant to the God of Thunder)

[chopsnasty360]

Maferefun baba chango!!!

[Adelowo3009]

I had the Honor and the privilege to work as Babatunde Olatunji assistant during his last visit to Salvador Bahia in early 80´s.His chants to Shango are really inspiring.

[PKat313]

I LUV this Chant!! Got It At Home!!!!!

[TheSantanaLife]

I FEEL IT IN MY SOUL!!!!

[outer432]

yyyyyyyyyyyyyyyeeeeeeeeeeeeeee­eeeeeuuauuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuhhhhh­

[3333333921]

love it

[Fimbulnacht]

Bring the storm!!

[johnnyrobinsane]

Just hearing this gives me such pride of having african descent... mind you I'm mixed with Cherokee and Irish but, I'm black in the heart!!

[JUBABU4]

@johnnyrobinsane all lead back to the same tree.

[1550ms]

Relentless power. Strong strong.

[RobBrockerman]

awesome...i'm speechless



[NubianGoddez]

OMG I love this song, its my absolute favorite!!!!! love this!!!!!!! thank you!!!! as a priestess that has Shango on her head this makes the hair stand up on the back of my neck, when I hear this I just go wild!!!

[machetero3]

Its great music but fuck those commercials at the begining we don't need to see that.

[XXXDominaVV]

Shango Baba limpiame y protegeme de todo mal...

[onespiritful1]

Fascinating piece of music God Bless

[NYsentinel]

Ache !!!

[sha1om]

I first heard this piece (or excerpts from it) in 1982 -- believe it or not, it was on the Dr. Demento Show, of all weird places! He prefaced the piece by saying, "Now other people may have had their own reasons for listening, but in MY crowd, this was party music! -- when everyone got really loaded, you put on the Olatunji record."

I've also heard a choral version of this theme (spelled "Xangô") by Brazilian composer Heitor Villa-Lobos, performed by the Brooklyn College Chamber Chorus.

[lamulatona06]

maferefun mi padre shango todos los dias,q me siga librando de toda la gente mala envidiosa q lo unico q quieren es el mal,q con su hacha arranque todo lo malo q se atraviese en mi camino

[Tampinu]

Thunder!!!

[DJMutagen]

Awesome. I love it. I need to live where hand drums are played all the time.

[MojoWorking415]

@DJMutagen definitely man. I used to live is San Francisco and there are some sweet drum circles in the parks

[MojoWorking415]

@DJMutagen definitely man. I used to live in San Francisco and there are some sweet drum circles in the parks, and I wish I had gotten into that when I had the chance.

[SHANGOMARCOS]

OH Shango el Rey de los Truenos, tus hijos te respetan y por eso te pedimos que nos cuides a cada uno de nosotros. Viva la madre del mundo "Africa"

[SHANGOMARCOS]

OH Shango el Rey de los Truenos, tus hijos te respetan y por eso te pedimos que nos cuides a cada uno de nosotros.

[lamulatona06]

@SHANGOMARCOS ashe

[TheKeeganMargaret]

My mother would get us to lay on the floor and listen through the quadraphonic system to "Drums of passion" when we were young.To feel the music in our bones.I love her and I love this.Thank you,very much.

[mayunah19]

Amazing! :D

[ericjay71]

heavy, REAL.

[siningtambol]

Thank you for posting this. I like it. We miss you Baba!

[ThrashingBastardHell]

Emotivo y comovedor, las raíces de la música...

[Kell1295]

Chango mi santo!

[Bantubrotha]

I grew up on this album and I have every song still in my head, and ys I play drums and bass. Thanks for this post

[Ogbeni]

This is my favourite too....it's so soul arousing...it brings to mind the aura the enveloped me as a child whenever i heard Orisha worshippers perform rituals.

[chichipoya]

this is a nice jam. I love this type of music.

[redmaj1]

What are they saying???

[soundthatpleasesme]

I, also, experienced Olatunji 40 some years ago when they did a performance at our university. I was doing some really nice LSD, and I felt as if I was in a small African village watching the performance. The drums always connect with something primitive in our soul. The acid magnified it. To this day I can still bring up the visions and the feelings from that show. Thank you, Babatunde, for a treasured memory in time.

[nawmmbr]

Poor stupid me, I never heard of Baba Olatunji until 2008! I would have done anything to have met him in person, and to have attended one of his concerts, no matter where it was. Fortunately, his music lives on and I found what I believe to be the last copy of (2 DISC CD) "Drums of Passion". If you don't know Baba Olatunji, you don't know nothing!

[NYsentinel]

Que Viva Chango !!!

Ache

[perovaas]

Babatunde, my musical Baba. I still have goosebumps when I hear you! Cawo Cabiecile.

[emtmike25]

miss u baba

[Marcinenwu]

True...

[thelundian]

@emtmike25 

[thelundian]

@thelundian 

[thelundian]

He was the greatest. He inherited his musical throne from Assadada Defora Sier a Leonian drummer who reigned in NYC during the 40s and 50s. Babatunde played with him for a while but left to form his own group in 1958. My sister and I performed with both great drummers during the changeover period. It was a great era in the history of African dance in Harlem during that time. Madubuko

[queenmother123]

THank you I had an opportunity to meet Olatunji when I was little, and he gave us the tape, He was so humble.

[alexanderdiaz1]

OMG...We did an African Dance number to this song, back in High School...Thanks for the memories...

[jonskerr]

This is my favorite piece from all his albums. Too bad there's no video. :/

[vidnut222]

Excellent!!!!

[yorubaqueen123]

Thank you for putting this on you tube.

tribute to my baba

[omitade2]

Thank you again.

[mijag]

Thank you, this is my favorite!

[Marcinenwu]

Your welcome :)

I posted all track from album "Drums of Passion"

[forotma]

Thanks, Marcinenwu. I bought the Drums of Passion album about 46-47 years ago and never thought I'd hear it again.

[miriamhamsa]

i bought it back then too!!!! think i still have it.