New Star Orchestra - Baya Ba Komi / Late Obadeyi (Agidigbo)

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

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Yoruba Street Percussion is an exploration of six styles of popular music heard on the streets of Lagos in the 1960's. There are 25 tracks exploring the Agidigbo, Apala, Sakara, Fuji, Juju, and Waka styles. Some of the styles are popular music derived from traditional Yoruban music streams including a nasal inflection quite different from the usual open vocal styles associated with Nigerian music. Other styles, Agidigbo in particular, have an infectious beat more familiar to Western ears as it has been influenced to some extent by Afro Cuban musicians, and to a lesser extent by Jamaican rhythm styles.

The music is neo-traditional in the sense that the use of western style horns or guitar riffs is absent, but is none the less a creative expression of modern Africa, in which the traditional music finds new, urban forms. It is all, good, knee bopping, drum music, fun to play along with.

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