ELELETURE and Udeme producer, Akeem Lasisi, have formally launched a brand new musical poetry album titled 'Orere: A Present of Poems'.
The album, which is now on fashionable music platforms corresponding to Spotify, Apple Music and YouTube Music, consists of 10 songs and covers numerous subjects. As a result of poetry and love are conjoined twins, romance performs a significant function. Nevertheless, some songs additionally emphasize tradition, politics and good human relationships.
For instance, whereas the title observe 'Orere' celebrates love and the proper to bounce and different types of pleasure, 'Ada, Ada; Kisimo and 'Ododo Rose' are a celebration of magnificence and fervour. 'Apala Romance' additionally portends an analogous theme going by the title, however the primary contribution to the 'Orere' mission is the pollination of poetry with Yoruba's fashionable conventional style, apala, for which the late Haruna Ishola and Ayinla Omowura, amongst others, have been well-known .
However in “Chibok Women,” the poet revisits the destiny of most of the schoolgirls kidnapped a decade in the past from the Authorities Women Secondary Faculty, Chibok, Borno State, lots of whom nonetheless dwell in slavery, whereas their mother and father and others family members dwell with the nightmare. Within the work – 'For Chibok Women' – the poet makes use of a Yoruba folklore track by which a girl pleads with an eyed igbo (agbigbo the hornbill) who had kidnapped her little one, singing:
The royal chook listens to my son
Eye igbo…
Igbo chook, launch my little one to me
Eye igbo…
As anticipated, the poem in 'Chibok Women' shouldn’t be solely unhappy but additionally crucial.
Lasisi stated on observe: “I nonetheless really feel damage, like many different involved individuals. One of the best ways to really feel what the abductees and their mother and father undergo is to think about the tragedy that befalls somebody. Think about having your daughter or son – or each – within the jaws of terrorists, someplace within the nameless bush, not only for a month or a yr, however for ten lengthy years. It's horrible.”
Nevertheless, he added that producing the track for Chibok ladies is a supply of aid for him as a result of standing up for such embattled youth is a debt that everybody who has a voice should someway pay.
As a result of Lasisi's poetry is extremely African, he by no means walks alone. In 'Orere', identical to in his earlier albums corresponding to 'Eleleture' and 'Udeme', he collaborates with very gifted artists corresponding to Edaoto, Phumzee and Kolawole Oduremi, whereas high drummers, together with veteran Ayanlere Alajede, are additionally energetic with him. Most of the songs have been produced by Oduremi, with the consummate cinematographer and singer Sanjo Adegoke additionally a part of the manufacturing of the title track.
A stunning aspect of the album is the invention and starring function of Olamide Yusuf, a younger girl from Ibadan, Oyo State, who injects Yoruba bridal poetry – ekuniyawo – into 'Ile Oko Ya: Marriage ceremony Bells' and 'E wa Wo Wa: Shade of Love . '
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