MAC DADDY
Brazil shows us how its done yet again. Great album. Really loose and free. These guys would easily fit labels like Ubiquity & Strut. Make sure you also snap up the Suffer instrumental.
Favorite track: Suffer.
O IFÁ lança o EP “IFÁ Afrobeat + Okwei V Odili”, resultado de um encontro singular com a cantora e compositora nigeriana Okwei V Odili. O EP apresenta 5 canções criadas e arranjadas em parceria entre a banda de afrobeat baiana e a cantora da Nigéria.
O EP “IFÁ Afrobeat + Okwei V Odili” nasceu do encontro entre o grupo de afrobeat instrumental IFÁ Afrobeat e a cantora e compositora Okwei V Odili, que estava fazendo uma residência artística em Salvador. Ao compartilharem temas instrumentais e canções, a banda e a artista chegaram aos arranjos das 5 faixas que fazem parte do EP.
A gravação foi realizada no Estúdio T, com produção de André T e do IFÁ Afrobeat. A capa do EP foi produzida por Lemi Ghariokwu, artista da Nigéria que fez as capas de 26 discos de Fela Kuti, o inventor do afrobeat.
In synchronicity with the political upheavals of June 2013 in Brazil, as the streets boiled with riots, Ifa Afrobeat and Okwei V Odili would manifest their faith in music, following Fela’s message: music is the weapon to affirm your choices and paths!
The meeting between Ifa Afrobeat and Okwei V Odili arose in this unique record of afrobeat culture, a journey through the music of the black Atlantic world, ruled by the exchanges between artistic expressions of different cultures, settled by the same African matrix. The EP features afrobeat songs with soul, dub and reggae accents and IFÁ’s fierce and strong Afrobeat is smoothed by Okwei’s soulful voice, creating a mesmerizing effect.
It is music full of soul, groove and truth, to talk about our ancestry and future. The synergy between Okwei’s lyrics and the contagious bass lines and horns, the drums grooves, the rhythm guitars, and the percussive conduction, leads to feel that one Africa is reborn in her daughter Bahia.
The Ifa AFROBEAT + V OKWEI Odili EP was recorded, mixed and mastered at Studio T, and produced by André T and Ifa Afrobeat, in Salvador, Brazil.
I.F.Á. Afrobeat formação EP:
Okwei V. Odili: Voz
Jorge Dubman: bateria
Fabricio Mota: baixo
Átila Santtana: guitarra
Prince Áddamo: guitarra
Alexandre Espinheira: percussão
Normando Mendes: trompete
Raiden Coelho: Sax e Flauta
Matias Hernan Traut: trombone
André T: teclado
Anda Szilagyi: teclado
Músicos convidados:
Hugo Sambone: trombone
Ton Carvalho: Sax Barítono
Anda Szilagyi: teclado
Inês Regina: teclado
Letieres Leite: direção de sopros em "Axé!"
Criado em Salvador, o IFÁ, cujo nome representa o oráculo africano é a sigla para junção inventiva entre ijexá, funk e afrobeat, integra um movimento que vem ressignificando o cenário da música instrumental baiana.
Joined by musicians from all over the world, the Danish ensemble bridge the gaps between Afrobeat, jazz, soul, and funk. Bandcamp New & Notable May 10, 2023