Artist.......: Orlando Julius with The Heliocentrics
Album........: Jaiyede Afro
Label........: Strut / !K7 Records
Genre........: Reggae
Catnr........: STRUT112D
Source.......: WEB
Rip.date.....: 2015-01-11
Str.date.....: 2014-10-06
Quality......: 223kbps/44.1kHz/Joint Stereo
Url..........: http://https://strut.greedbag.com/buy/jaiyede-afro/
track title time
1. Buje Buje 8:21
2. Love Thy Neighbour 4:18
3. Aseni 5:18
4. Sangodele 4:32
5. Jaiyede Afro 6:06
6. Omo Oba Blues 3:52
7. Be Counted 11:16
8. In The Middle 4:52
9. Alafia 3:11
Runtime 51:46
Size 83.61
Release Notes:
As Nigerian musicians go, Orlando Julius might not be as recognizable a name as
Fela Kuti, but that has less to do with the quality of his output than the
scarcity of it. He had an important hand in shaping the emerging fusion of
Nigerian highlife and American R&B in the mid Æ60s, followed by an unofficial
status as an ambassador of that sound ù now called Afrobeat ù during an extended
American tenure in Æ70s. But the sax maestro and bandleader put out only a
handful of albums that made it to international collectorsÆ circles, and left
many of his rousing live-show standards unrecorded.
Thankfully Jaiyede Afro, JuliusÆs teamup with Malcolm CattoÆs super-session
psych-soul-funk-jazz group the Heliocentrics, does more than its share to make
up for that. It stirs up long-brewing sounds from its deep-grooved yet soothing
title cut ù developed out of childhood memories of music his mother would play ù
to the resoundingly funky 11-minute vamp ôBe Counted,ö an Africa-to-America
black pride anthem that still inspires long after its writing in 1976. Following
their gigs backing up Ethio-jazz forefather Mulatu Astatke and scholar of Middle
Eastern music Lloyd Miller, the HeliocentricsÆ analog-studio sound stays
faithful to JuliusÆs vintage Afrobeat precedent. They keep their wigged-out
psychedelic tendencies in the margins, opting to stay smoothly in a pocket of
James Brown/Africa 70 steadiness ù though closer ôAlafiaö gives JuliusÆs
exclamatory sax a welcome shot at careening through space. ItÆs not just a good
(re)introduction to an underrated pioneer, but a fine recreation of everything
that made his earlier, scarcer recordings so worth seeking out.
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