Album Info
| 1. The Beat Of My Drum | Year of Recording: 1986 | |||
| 2. Loyin Loyin | Record Label: Smithsonian Folkways Recordings | |||
| 3. Ife L’oju L’aiye | Producers: Mickey Hart, Babatunde Olatunji | |||
| 4. Akiwowo (A Capella) | Engineers: Tom Flye, Phil Kaffel | |||
| 5. Akiwowo | Series Ethnomusicologist: Fredric Lieberman, Ph.D | |||
| 6. Se Eni A Fe L’amo-Kere Kere | Photography: John Werner | |||
Description
Drums of Passion: The Beat was written and co-produced (with Mickey Hart) by Nigerian artist Babatunde Olatunji (1937-2003) and features guests Brazilian percussionist Airto Moriera and rock guitarist Carlos Santana. The album is Olatunji’s tribute to the power of rhythm: “Rhythm is the soul of life. The whole universe revolves in rhythm.” Olatunji performs on lead vocals, lead drum, and ngoma drums, and is accompanied by the talking drum, djembe, bembe, agogô, caxixi, sekere and others. Originally released in 1986 as Dance to the Beat of My Drum on Blue Heron Records, Drums of Passion: The Beat was reissued in 1989 as part of “THE WORLD” series.
Quotes
Where I come from we say that rhythm is the soul of life, because the whole universe revolves around rhythm, and when we get out of rhythm, that’s when we get into trouble.
— Babatunde Olatunji
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