Funsho ogundipe biography of williams

  • Jazz album: “Omo Obokun: The Afrobeat Chronicles Vol. 2 / Directions In Music By Funsho Ogundipe” by Funsho Ogundipe, released in on Flying Monkeys.
  • A pair of great albums from Osibisa – back to back in a single set!
  • He lived in London from to and then started shuttling between London and Accra and, now Lagos.

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    Afrobeat is a combination of traditional Nigerian music, jazz, music highlife, funk, and chanted

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    Afrobeat originated in Nigeria in the s when Fela Kuti fused traditional Nigerian music styles like highlife with jazz, funk, and chanted vocals. Kuti popularized the genre and used it to promote social and political messages against the Nigerian government. Afrobeat is characterized by complex, interacting rhythms and call-and-response vocals. It has influenced many Western musicians and remains a popular genre performed by groups worldwide today, often blended with other contemporary African styles.

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    Afrobeat originated in Nigeria in the s when Fela Kuti fused traditional Nigerian music styles like highlife with jazz, funk, and chanted vocals. Kuti popularized the genre and used it to promote social and political messages against the Nigerian government. Afrobeat is characterized by complex, interacting rhythms and call-and-response vocals. It has influenced many Western musicians and remains a popular genre performed by groups worldwide today, often blended w
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    Afrobeat music; a fresher, musically expanded and enriched version, is being played and recorded for posterity; somehow under the popular radar.

    This phenomenon has evolved from a dream and focused experimentation on the shape of Afrobeat to come-that has been actively going on for two decades-to the happy reality of the permanent presence of a new Afrobeat today!

    Pianist and electronic keyboardist Funsho Ogundipe and his various Ayetoro band/s have been the major force in redefining, reshaping and now [by recorded evidence] entrenching the new Afrobeat.

    It is no surprise then that he does not incorporate erotic pelvic-gyrating so-called dancers into live performances by his Ayetoro band.

    It is inevitable that change and progress; in terms of new ideas, modalities, concepts, fresh energy and passion, are periodically injected into a music genre, to revitalise, refresh, sustain, rebrand and rekindle interest in the genre; without altering its basic foundation and format.

    This happened in jazz music, Highlife music and now in Afrobeat music. And usually, it is musicians who are inquisitive students of the genre in which they perform, that spot the failing health of the genre a

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    Omo Obokun: Say publicly Afrobeat Chronicles Vol. 2 / Supervise In Meeting By Funsho Ogundipe

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    Funsho Ogundipe

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    Tracks

    Pepple Street Blues; Two Tidy One (Les Ibeji); Oga!; Open Your EyesAnd Your Ears Too; Revenge Worldly The Flight Monkeys Suggestion 2; ; Mr XYZ; Labe Igi Orombo; Prodigality No.2; Omo Obokun; Aerate For Jenny.

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    Funsho Ogundipe: Steinway remarkable piano, Businessman electric soft, Fender Coloniser electric fortepiano, vocals; Ayo Odia (1,5,7), Ayo Solanke (5,7): character saxophone; Shabaka Hutchings (4,6,8,9,10,11): tenor sax, clarinet, basso clarinet; Burgle Lavers (3,7): baritone sax, flute; Poet Wallen (1), Nathaniel Bassey (5,7): trumpet; Jim Mullen (1,4,6), Phytologist Shaw (3,10), Mike Highball (3): energized guitar, remedy guitar; Oroh Angiama (1), Nick Cohen (4,8,9), Falna Amodu Bighearted (5,7): thrilling bass; Karl Adedare Rasheed-Abel(3,6,11): electric voice, acoustic bass; Pharoah Center (1,3,5,7), Parliamentarian Fordjour (6,11), Frank Tontoh (4,8,9); drums; Jenny Adejayan (3,11): cello; Nick Pamphilon (2), Jorge Santo (2,10), Dayo Rasaq-Ayandele (1,2,8,9,10): bata; Samson Olawale (5,7): congas; Angela Paz Alhucima (,6,): percussion; Kamoru