Thursday 31 May 2007

Lagbaja



Came across a really talent artist called Lagbaja. The best way I can describe this Nigerian musician voice is like that of Fela. If you like Fela you will be in for a treat with Lagbaja style of music.

He always wear a mask on stage to hide his identity. I personally think this is a clever move, keeps your personal life separate from work.
Generally Lagbaja's music blends jazz, afrobeat, highlife, juju, funk and traditional Yoruba music, with the use of guitars and keyboards along with traditional Nigerian instruments. The music can be purely instrumental but has a couple of songs with lyrics, which combines of Yoruba and English, spoken commonly in the western part of Nigeria.
His lyrics focus on issues relating to democracy and fairness in society, which again we have grown to know Fela's music for.

This artist is really talented, have a look at his website, http://www.lagbaja.net/. I was particularly impressed with the comic book illustrations done by Artist Ganiyy Ibrahim, called Irin Aja.
Our favorite track at the moment is Skentele, we've got it on repeat at work at the moment....

2 comments:

Anonymous said...

Are You Serious??? Are You Nigerian?? You said you just!! Came across him!!

Anonymous said...

No matter how posh you think you are darling As a nigerian you should have heard of lagabaja! Are you for real?