Eze-Nri Royal Drummers - Eze-nri Royal Drummers Vol. 1 - VINYL LP

Ekiti Sound is back with his sophomore of genre-defying, boundary-pushing sounds, delivering a gorgeous and powerful album and a worthy follow-up to 2019's award-winning debut 'Abeg No Vex'. Drum Money is a sonic ride which seamlessly incorporates elements of Nigerian music, electronic beats and hip-hop influences to create a sound that is both utterly unique and warmly familiar. Sophisticated and earthy, provocative and multi-faceted, it comprises seventeen tracks which abound with surprises and invention. Horns blast, drums rattle, and featured artist Aunty Rayzor's rapid-fire Yoruba bars blend to enclave the listener within the afro juju synths and energetic drum patterns. Also appearing are a cast of great Lagos musicians, including a vintage afrobeat-like horn section, keys, percussion, some deep grooving live bass lines courtesy of Metronomy's Olugbenga Adelekan and several guest vocalists. Drum Money was recorded at the Ekiti Sound studio in Lagos. Album Tracks 1. Alacarte Pt.1 2. Fuji 3. Chairman 4. Free the Boy 5. Ebi Pa Mi 6. Drum Money 7. Dabaru 8. Jiji Mo Ji 9. Ku Ise 10. Ghost Leader 11. Raindrops 12. Story Story 13. Home 14. Mami Water 15. Alacarte Pt.2

Album Tracks 1. Sea Drift 2. Songs of Farewell I. 'How Sweet the Silent Backward Tracings!' 3. Songs of Farewell II. 'I Stand As on Some Mighty Eagle's Beak' 4. Songs of Farewell III. 'Passage to You! O Secret of the Earth and Sky!' 5. Songs of Farewell IV. 'Joy, Shipmate, Joy!' 6. Songs of Farewell V. 'Now Finale to the Shore' 7. Songs of Sunset 'A Song of the Setting Sun!' 8. Songs of Sunset 'Cease Smiling, Dear! a Little While Be Sad' 9. Songs of Sunset 'Pale Amber Sunlight Falls' 10. Songs of Sunset 'Exceeding Sorrow Consumeth My Sad Heart!' 11. Songs of Sunset 'By the Sad Waters of Separation' 12. Songs of Sunset 'See How the Trees and the Osiers Lithe' 13. Songs of Sunset 'I Was Not Sorrowful, I Could Not Weep' 14. Songs of Sunset 'They Are Not Long, the Weeping and the Laughter'

Vinyl LP pressing. Strut return to the rich archives of Black Fire Records for the Drum Message album by Ghanaian master percussionist Okyerema Asante from 1977. Album Tracks 1. Drum Message 2. Asante Sana 3. Follow Me 4. Sabi 5. Mother Africa 6. Never Fly Away from the Funk 7. Play a Sweet Rhythm on Them Drums 8. Adowa 9. Sabi (Black Fire House Mix) 10. Kazi's Awakening 11. To the Ancestors