Detailed item info | Track listing | 1. E Dide E Mujo :: Get Up And Dance
2. Ara Ma Nfe Sinmi
3. Oshodi Oke
4. Orisun Lye
5. Ose, Ose
6. Yoruba
7. Ope Oku
8. Dance, Dance, Dance
9. Iya - (with Mi)
10. Alashe L'Aiye
11. Omode O'Mela
12. Enia Ni Aso Mi
13. Ode le Alaga
| | Details | | Producer: | King Sunny Ade | | Distributor: | WEA (Distributor) | | Recording type: | Studio | | Recording mode: | Stereo | | SPAR Code: | n/a |
| | Album notes | Personnel includes: King Sunny Ade (vocals, guitar, percussion); John Akpan, Akin Babalola, Francis Afolabi (guitar); Abiodun Fatoke (pedal steel guitar); Jonah Williams (keyboards); Remi Abegunde, Kenneth Okulolo (bass); Ade Ayanwunmi (drums, percussion); Resaki Aladokun, Tundi Jalosho (talking drum); Mustafa Alabi (dundun); Sunday Ayangoke, Gboyega Ayanwlae (omele); Michael Babaloa (maracas); Prince Gani Alashe (shekere); Kingsley Arashe, Chata Addy (congas); Dele Oyeleye (percussion); Femi Owomoyela, Shina Omoroga, Niyi Falaye, Shola Gbadura (background vocals).
Engineers include: Scott Spain, Tajudeen Bello.
Recorded at Bob Lang Studios, Richmond, Virginia in August 1992 & at Crow Recording, Seattle, Washington in September 1995. Includes liner notes by Andrew Frankel.
While Afropop purists may take issue with the way 1995's E DIDE is tailored to the American market (the atypically short compositions, for example, and the presence of English-language lyrics), King Sunny Ade is still the undisputed master of the intricate, deeply textured, dance music known as juju. As with earlier albums, E DIDE weaves Yoruban drumming with elements from Nigerian folk songs, Western pop, Hawaiian music, even Latin American dance idioms.
The opener, "E Dide E Mujo"--which translates as "Get Up and Dance"--establishes the warm, rhythmically insistent wave of sound that will wash over the listener through the album's 13 tracks. On "Ope Oku," Ade's bright, relaxed lead vocals criss-cross in call-and-response patterns with a harmonically rich chorus and a host of talking drums. Delicate guitar motifs drift through the shimmering percussive cloud of "Yoruba." Ade's songs evolve through free-flowing grooves built on interlocking guitar lines, synthesizer sounds, call-and-response vocals and a shifting thicket of talking drums, congas, bells, and rattles. E DIDE is King Sunny Ade's most significant major American release since his influential, widely acclaimed early '80s albums (material from his Nigerian releases is available on RETURN OF THE JUJU KING).
| | Editorial reviews | ...the man who essentially introduced Americans to world music...everything you could wish from a King Sunny studio disc...
Dirty Linen (04/01/1996)
...the compositions range from traditional Yoruba folk songs to originals that celebrate God, family, and the beauty of a woman's body...
Vibe (02/01/1996)
...a new dose of his crisp, smartly percolating music, talking drums, pedal steel guitar glisses, guitar lacework, silken vocal choruses and all....With E DIDE, Ade continues to make some of the world's hippest, most life-affirming feel-good music.
JazzTimes (03/01/1996)
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