LAGOS

Hello
This is about the second blog for the year 2010
musically for me it more about naija and african music
I have now actually had a good listen to 9ice new joint 'TRADITION' though not as strong as 'GONGO ASO' after a proper 'Alejo' listen, i feel its a wicked album ,production wise i still feel Gongo Aso is better, as it sounds clearer and well balanced sonically, whereas Tradition sounds muffled , unclear in general and not as polished as Gongo Aso. This could be due to the fact that he used varied producers and not mainly Id Cabasa .

But to be fair to 9ice i don't think in a singer's life you can make two classic albums, those days and age have long gone (The days of the chief priest Baba 70, King Sunny Ade, Ebenezer Obey Oliver de Coque Chief Osadebe,Bright Chimezie,Orlando owoh ayinde barrister kollington ayinla salawa abeni etc.. (men i am really showing my age ) writing classics after classics over time though they did have a few dud albums but they were consistent over time because they were proper music men/women and had bands and not programmed sounds so they had to sit and not only write the song but write the music to the songs ) but these days it all about 'party music' and i dont think longetivity is part of the game any longer or if it is ...that has probably been pushed to the background .it's all make money,bling bling and the champange lifestyle

His word play and use of idioms and yoruba proverbs is commendable, according to 9ice he grew up with his granny who spoke to him in proverbs and yoruba wise word which put him in good stead.

STAND OUTZ


Energy-for the beats, flow and use of proverbs
Liquor- for the beats and world play
Alapomeji anhem-wow!! seriki's verse is the bomb
Pete Pete with ASA- over time classic
Gbamu gbamu-nice joint/video
Anytime-moving !!
overall really good effort

he will probably win a grammy someday

Ps is 9ice trying to carve a niche for himself?
As i feel there seems to be some chink in the coded tunes/alapomeji camp cos ID didn't have full production and it showed!!

But we all try and grow and move on !!

alapomeji for life