King Sunny Ade - Synchro Reprise / Penkele / Ewele (Audio)

All hail the King.

Album: Syncro System
Year: 1983
Label: Island Records

King Sunny Ade is a legend in his home continent of Africa. If you know anyone from Nigeria, just mention King Sunny's name and immediately you'll watch their face transform, their eyes brighten, their lips bounce into a smile, their shoulders loosen. You can almost see them get ready to dance. Such is the love for the man in his homeland. Everything he ever recorded in Nigeria is gold, his songs dominate the airwaves and he owns half the country. Not bad for the work of a man who left his royal heritage behind to play his music.

King Sunny is the undisputed king of Juju music, a near psychedelic blend of weaving African guitar, talking drum, congas, synthesizers and harmonious vocals. His music doesn't pound or thunder, rather it ungulates and purrs. It is rhythm in its purest sense, constant and unwavering in its gracefulness.

His gentle guitar tones, duck and weave around the talking drums, lilting through the spaces in the polyrhythm, dancing across the bass. Sunny's voice adds texture, never overpowering, but soothing in its call-and-response. His vocals are repetitive like a mantra, encouraging you to leave your seat and worries behind, jump to your feet and move that thing you call an ass.

Text taken from:
http://ripplemusic.blogspot.com/2008/02/king-sunny-ade-mango-albums.html

Category:

Music

Tags:

• ksa
• king
• sunny
• ade
• juju
• synchro
• system
• yoruba
• lagos
• eko
• nigeria
• naija
• highlife

[sambaboy77]

@MrOlamide95 I agree 100% !!! Thank you sir!!!

[MrOlamide95]

@mszeee Point of correction.. *Thank God..

[mszeee]

27 years later and it still sounds fab, thank you Sunny for this fantastic music

[peacelovemusic12699]

Thank you Sunny Ade for using your creative work of music to promote the Yoruba culture. Your dedication to our ancestral heritage would never be forgotten and your work would continue to have positive influence on the younger generation.

[MsSlrb]

This must be life event i love this Thanks

[ddjozone]

Thanks for this one!

[22jan51]

Great songs- great uploading