Album
Juju Music
King Sunny Adé And His African Beats
1982 · Folk, World, & Country
12 collectors on Gatefold own this
Juju Music is a Soul & Funk album by King Sunny Adé And His African Beats, originally released in 1982. On Gatefold: 38 pressings tracked, owned by 12 collectors.
About
King Sunny Ade's first international release modernized Nigerian <i>juju</i>, blending it with highlife, dub, and Afrobeat influences. Throughout the album, hypnotically intertwining layers of rhythmically chattering guitars ride a rippling ocean of percussion, with Ade's understated, incantatory vocals dancing gracefully atop. When swooping steel-guitar licks melt into swirling electronic effects on "Eje Nlo Gba Ara Mi," or percolating talking drums give way to giddy highlife guitars on "Sunny Ti De Ariya," the music's summery charms come through bright and clear.
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Tracklist
- 1Ja Funmi7:08
- 2Eje Nlo Gba Ara Mi7:14
- 3Mo Beru Agba3:27
- 4Sunny Ti De Ariya3:46
- 5Ma Jaiye Oni5:07
- 6365 Is My Number/The Message8:16
- 7Samba/E Falaba Lewe8:07
Sound DNA
- Soul & Funk
- Afrobeat
- warm
- hypnotic
- tropical
Juju Music is the 1982 major label debut of Nigerian jùjú band King Sunny Adé and His African Beats. It represented the first worldwide release for Adé, who was already established in his native Nigeria as its "biggest musical draw and juju music's reigning monarch". The album was a critical and commercial success, peaking at #111 on Billboard's "Pop Albums" chart. The New York Times, which described the album in 1982 as "the year's freshest dance-music album", credited it in 1990 with having launched the "World Beat movement in the United States". In its review, Allmusic indicates that the album gave Adé "unprecedented exposure on the Western market and introduced a slew of music lovers to the sounds of Afro-pop", concluding that it "should not only be the first-disc choice for Ade newcomers, but for the Afro-pop curious as well.
Credits
The people behind it.
Performers
- Adeyemi AdisaBONGOS
- Alhaji Timmy OlaitanTALKING DRUM
- Bob OhiriGUITAR
- Demola AdepojuSTEEL GUITAR
- Femi OwomoyelaVOCALS
- Jacob AjakayeVOCALS
- Jelili LawalBASS
- Jimoh GbadamosiTALKING DRUM
- John OkeumeuRHYTHM GUITAR
- King Sunny AdeGUITAR , VOCALS, KEYBOARDS GUITAR, VOCALS KEYBOARDS
- Martin MeissonnierKEYBOARDS
- Mathew Adekunle OlojedeVOCALS
- Mofes AcambiDRUMS
- Niyi FalayeVOCALS
- Rasaki AladokunTALKING DRUM
- Segun IloriGUITAR
- Segun ShokumbiVOCALS
- Shina AbiodunCONGAS
12 collectors on Gatefold own this · 38 pressings tracked on Gatefold
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