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Haruna Ishola & His Apala Group – Star Records SRPS 31, 1976 (LP)
Haruna Ishola & His Apala Group – Star Records SRPS 31, 1976 (LP)
We now share another gorgeous album by Apala King Haruna Ishola (1919-1983), which includes a tribute to general Murtala Muhammed (1938-1976), Nigeria’s head of state, who was assassinated in Lagos in February 1976. For more than three decades, Ishola dominated the Islamic-influenced Yoruba Apala music with his commanding voice and profound and poetic lyrics, accompanied by vocalists and backed by some of the finest polyrhythmic percussion playing ever recorded, featuring iyalu talking drums, agogo bells, sekere rattles, and an oversize agidigbo thumb piano.
Nous partageons à présent un nouvel superbe album du roi du Apala, Alhaji Haruna Ishola (1919-1983), qui comprend un hommage au général Murtala Muhammed (1938-1976), le chef de l’état du Nigéria qui fut assassiné à Lagos en février 1976. Pendant plus de trois décennies, Haruna Ishola a dominé la musique Apala avec sa voix majestueuse et ses paroles profondes et poétiques, accompagnées de chanteurs et de percussions polyrythmiques sublimes, notamment des tambours parlants iyalu, des cloches agogo, des hochets sekere et un grand piano à pouce agidigbo.
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Our other Haruna Ishola shares:
Haruna Ishola & His Apala Group - Star Records SRPS 32 here
Haruna Ishola & His Apala Group - RPS 16 here
Our other Apala shares:
Ayinla Owomura & His Apala Group – 25 x40 – Africa Song Ltd NEMI 0515 here
Ayinla Omowura & His Apala Group – His Master's Voice Vol. 2 – HNLX 5085 here
Moufa Laif – Yoruba Apala Music from Porto Novo, Benin here
Our Yoruba Sakara shares:
Yusufu Olatunji & His Group - Vol. 17 - Philips PL 636 1050 here
Yusufu Olatunji & His Group - Vol. 18 - ORSL 1706 here
Photograph below is from L'Art Royal Africain by Suzanne Preston Blier, Flammarion, 1998:
A venerable member of the prestigious Ogboni (“cult of old age”) Secret Society wearing a pair of brass edan ogboni sculptures signifying membership, Yoruba, Nigeria 1949-1950.
In the old days, the Ogboni worshiped Mother Earth and were the traditional intermediaries between the living and the ancestors. They wielded great powers as guardians of traditional law and sought to maintain a global balance and the well-being of communities across Yorubaland. Guided by wisdom and the divine Ife oracle, they could even, if deemed necessary, destitute kings.
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