Kasumu Adio - Adekunle Fajuyi / Abusi Edumare (Apala)

Contemporary 60's Yoruba Street Music (Apala)
CD: Yoruba Street Percussion
Label: Original Music [CD OMCD 016]
Compiled by: John Storm Roberts (2/24/1936 - 11/29/2009)

Learn more about Apala genre, visit:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apala

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Category:

Music

Tags:

• kasumu
• adio
• apala
• fuji
• waka
• sakara
• juju
• agidigbo
• ashiko
• were
• yoruba
• lagos
• nigeria
• eko
• fajuyi

[Awalagba]

@MrFatimo1 You hit the nail right on it's head.

[MrFatimo1]

Ayinla omowura is no doubt a guru in the field of apala music, and all his albums are evergreen, talk of sakara Habib oluwa, yusuf olatunji, s.aka are also great musicsians with many evergreen albums too, but kudos must be given to Barry 4 combining all of them together to form the present day fuji

[WorldofSkate]

I don't know what start this argument ,but sakara and apala are two completely different genre.Sakara has Goje(Molo) and it specific drum called sakara,while apala has gangan, and I belief sakara has been around longer than apala. You guy ever had of Abibu Ayinde Oluwa

[ganiyu68]

Anyway, Ayinla omowura apala music is unique,There is diferent btwn taye and kehinde though they arive to the world the same day.All is apala music but the system and tunation is dfnt.Ayinla omowura apala is modern.Nobody can compare Dr sikiru ayinde barrister,General kolington ayinla,Kwam1 e.t.c together.But they all sing fuji music.

[Outreachat]

2.) Omowura was Egba, but he was really a Lagos product, in the same way that you might say for Sikiru Ayinde and Wasiu Ayinde, who are Ibadan and Ijebu respectively. You are probably the first to ever argue that Omowura's career did not contribute to the overall character of fuji music, but hey, it's a public forum!

[Outreachat]

1.) There never has been anything like "Ijebu Apala", and I don't think anyone has made such a claim until you suggested it. My point was that a number of central figures in the genre came in a sub-ethnic cluster, but that others were from other parts of western Nigeria. Actually, Yusuf Olatunji (Baba L'Egba) would be the representative figure if you must argue an Egba content for apala, but his brand was known as "sakara" and not "saara", a word that has nothing to do with music.

[geo93kat]

Ayinla Omowura played apala but he was creative with it therefore it was different from Ijebu apala such as Haruna Ishola and Kasumu Adio but it had nothing to do with fuji. There were elements of traditional Abeokuta saara music injected into his music. Saara means gift.

[yormeey]

@Outreachat, I agree with you, Ayinla music was a departure from the mainstream Apala of his temporary. I see him as a cross between Fuji and Apala. I sometimes find it to distinguish between Ayinla's Apala with modern Fuji?

I like people that are able to to make themselves different while not totally departing from the basics; I like Ayinla and I like the uniqueness of his music.

[Outreachat]

@yormeey : RE: comments on Ligali Mukaiba at "Ligali Mukaiba - Ijo Palongo / Apena (Apala)"; there I had actually wanted to name Ayinla Omowura when I listed Yusuf Olatunji. Olatunji played sakara, an extremely slow-tempo variety of apala, but Omowura creative "ebelled against traditional apala. He was brash, his music was up-tempo, and he was controversial in a way that old apala was not. His, Mukaiba's and Olatunji's brands of music were the main departures in the apala tradition.

[yormeey]

Sometimes, It fascinates me and I wonder why Ayinla Omowura's Apala was so different from many of his contemporary?

Listening to this, It's definitely Apala but when I listen to Ayinla Omowura, it sounds different?