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Drums of Passion: The Invocation Enter The Mysterium

Album Info

  1. Ajaja        Year of Recording: 1986
  2. Kori   Record Label Smithsonian Folkways Recordings
  3. Sango   Producer: Mickey Hart, Babatunde Olatunji
  4. Oba Igbo   Engineer: Tom Flye, Phil Kaffel
  5. Orere   Series Ethnomusicology Consultant: Fredric Lieberman, Ph.D.
  6. Ogun la Ka Aiye   Photography: John Werner
   
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Description

Nigerian-born drummer Babatunde Olatunji (1937-2003) collaborated with Mickey Hart to create this album, issued in 1988 as part of “THE WORLD” series (now part of the Mickey Hart Collection made available by Smithsonian Folkways). Hart and Olatunji sought to retain the “live” sound heard in this digital recording by capturing both the individual instruments as well as the collective sound. Featuring 11 percussionists and seven vocalists, with contributions from Hart, Airto Moreira, and bassist Bobby Vega, the tracks feature unique spiritual invocations to Yoruba deities played on traditional instruments, such as the ngoma, ashiko, and djembe.

A review in Musician said of the album, “Its immense sound scalds you until you feel the humidity coming out of the ground….It resonates like a polyrhythmic high mass.”

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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Drums of Passion: The Invocation - Babatunde Olatunji  

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