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 | Title : Drums of Passion
Author : Olatunji, Babatunde
Release Date : 20020730
Binding : Audio CD
Regular Price : $11.98
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Listened back to from the vantage point of a world exposed to several glorious decades of 'world music,' this stark set of percussion-based songs by Nigerian expatriate Babatunde Olatunji may seem a bit plain and untextured. Still, the fact that it's sold over five million copies since it first came out in 1960 shows that there was a hunger among the American record buying public for something new, and more importantly, something authentic. By the time Olatunji's album came out, the jazz world had already spent over a decade searching for some 'new sound' or another to inject into the mix: mambo-inspired Latin riffs swept through the bebop scene in the late '40s, grandiose composers such as Stan Kenton and Duke Ellington had pawed through the cutures of Cuba, Spain, Asia and Brazil, looking for new melodies and modes to work with. But, as they say, there's nothing like the real thing. Olantuji's primally arrangely drumming, with its brusque muscularity and vibrant call-and-response chants, certainly delivered the goods on that front. The album's euphoric new liner notes place this release, a bit preposterously, at the center of all 'world music-y' changes in jazz, rock and pop (even ahistorically claiming its seminal influence on Brazilian 'batucada' drumming)... The triumphalist tone of the author can be taken with a grain of salt, but this album certainly marks a major landmark in the history of global musical culture... And fans of African drumming will be dazzled to hear the brightly remastered sound of the newly-expanded CD version. Definitely worth checking out!
(by Joe Sixpack)
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