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Afrobeat veteran Funsho Ogundipe has a brand new CD on the streets by his group Ayetoro. Titled “Ayetoro: Asoju Oba, The recordings follow up Ogundipe’s Five previous albums with some heavyweight jazz and afrobeat, along with a range of energetic, experimental post-bop and funk.
Funsho Ogundipe began playing piano at age 17 and was a regular at Fela Kuti’s club The Shrine. He performed with Fela in 1988 and formed Ayetoro in 1996 after a successful career in law and business.
For years I’ve thought that the Ayetoro track “Revenge of the Flying Monkeys” was on the short list of the greatest post-Fela afrobeat songs ever written—and that’s before you even consider the genius of the title, which has also inspired a blog of the same name about African politics and culture. “Revenge” is the anchor track of Ayetoro’s 2005, “The Afrobeat Chronicles, Vol 1,” and it also appears on the definitive anthology of modern Afrobeat, “Nu Afrobeat Experience.” Ogundipe reprises the track on the new CD in a newly arranged version that builds on the dynamic impact of the original.
The new CD bears the clear influence of Fela Kuti and classic Afrobeat, and it further extends the direction of the music towards jazz and experimental grooves Also a fusion of Hiphop makes it a must listen to for lovers of good music, Ogundipe told the BBC that Miles Davis and Duke Ellington were his primary musical inspirations, along with Fela Kut.
Funso who came back home to Nigeria after Several years in the uk has new guys in his band and this guys along with him have recreated the music making it more Appealing to the younger Generations,You need to listen to Baba Don go,Asoju Oba AND SONGS IN A POD for your 2012 great song collections to be completed.
