Description Reviews Description: Adey Omotade, a sound artist and cultural cartographer rooted in Lagos and shaped by diasporic experiences in Paris, Johannesburg, Berlin and Ivory Coast, brings a rare sensibility to this work: walking between worlds, bringing with him the cadence of home and the dissonance of diaspora. In his hands, sound becomes ritual: a migration of soul, an assemblage of bells, melodies and chants woven from Ifa shrines, river banks and Yoruba festivals. Playing the dual role of griot and cartographer, Omotade, who works across acoustic ecology, experimental music and sound design, builds each track like a shrine: layered, intentional, alive with breath and blood, each track a libation, each break an invocation. Each track unfurls like aso-oke, the celebratory fabric of the Yoruba people: drums that speak in polyrhythms, synths bending like waves, incantations layered like memory, fading then returning, gently like the water at the banks of the Osun River. The influence of experimental sound design is evident throughout, but Ni\'ran is no cold abstraction. It pulses with life, with the heartbeat of talking drums, the breath of ambient textures and the warmth of the voices of babalawos, priests of Ifa, invoking ire (blessings) on all. Oori : Ogbe invokes the sacred Odu If a divination verse that speaks of beginnings, clarity and destiny. In Ofo : \'Nkantation, polyrhythms unfold like verses, each beat a coded message inviting listeners to reflect on destiny and alignment. The title track ro : Eeu begins with the haunting voice of a priest reciting the Odu If, a calling to give unto Eesu his due. Percussive patterns unfold like verses, each beat both a memory and a prayer. (0 ) Reviews: No reviews yet. Be the first to review! Write a Review Your email address will not be published. Required fields are marked. You must be logged in to post a review.
