For the first time in Atibalas’ Amayo with a selective individual effort
Even if you are not accustomed to his work that faces Antibalas, it will not take much contact with Duke Amayo’s work to find out that he is a showman. I mean this as courtesy. Amo’s interesting presence uniquely – in addition to classic voices and social situations, has long brought his deep sincerity to Europa’s spiritual life and kung fu arts to his work – strong. Amo was the most important thing in making the first Atibalas Brooklyn band from Afrobeat for the quarter of the last century, bringing captivating energy to alike records and offers (and in the last preparation, which won its comparisons in James Brown).
Individual album for the first time, The lion wakes upPut it in complete creative control. It should not be a surprise that he takes that return without hesitation. The five tracks of The lion wakes upWhat is meant to accompany the upcoming Amio movie, Tell the story of his autobiography and mythical. Each piece is a small suite in itself, combining different pieces in dramatic rings.
“Black Magic Sister” is the first, in honor of his grandmother, Shaman. The sensation of the urgent trumpet leads to a public protest, a offer and a prayer for his predecessors for the courage and abundance that sings in Naysa and Uoruba. There are layers of honor. In addition to praise specifically, its use of the europa song honors a broader sense of heritage, while the vocal elements in which the-jazz, the van, singing and responding-leak together in ways that can be recognized immediately as an early date. Afrobeat.
After laying this esteemed foundation, Amayo begins to build with “wake up the lion”. It wanders the guitars all the time, giving hidden hidden to the storm of the centuries, organs, gongs and other rhythm that represents spiritual animation. This continues in “Happy Lion”, which is a great march of Corali gratitude.
“Shadowless” follows the fastest song for the album with the most moments of Kitsch: a collection of cartoon effects that permeate the spoken Amayo lines (“Shadowless / Quick in Kung Fu / The Good Doer is still invisible / but you see the good they do / for humanity” ). He has a lot of fun with it, so that the path may make the course cooler while the grooves continue to build.
The record ends with the “rising lion”, a collaborative summit that packs in six Smurn movements of Leonen’s work. It is the clearest cinematic moment: Amo’s leading character is thrown from the sky, takes a leap from faith, falls into a whirlpool, lands in water, performs the divine lion dance, and finally rises to new active heights, all in time in time the year of the New Moon. It is a crowded path, at the very least.
Amayo tries to do a lot Assad wakes up Sometimes, he feels not blind. In an attempt to include his entire movie in five tracks, even long, he must present a full scientist and knowledge. He brings a lot of procedures for his vote is impressive, and evidence of his uncompromising feeling of vision. As it is, his execution of this vision and the star musicians who join him on his journey is never boring. The lion wakes up Not evenly equal, but it receives attention from beginning to end.
