7:30 AM. I’m sitted quietly at this balcony. I do this every morning for no reason in particular. For the calmness and for undistorted meditation. I think it sets the tone for a peaceful day. Suddenly, I hear the sound of music (well, not really a song but an instrumental). The music came from a neighbor’s room. It’s very familiar. My mother had this terrific radio set back in the days. It was a black, big oval shaped radio. It played cassettes too. Every morning, my mother (we, technically) listened to 6am news —especially the one cast in our native…
Author: Precious 'Kas' Binafegha
The Nigerian music scene have been graced with a wide range of gifted individuals who’ve hit ‘star’ status. And for many more out there, it was and still is the dream. For the Nigerian musician, Olamide, 2010 must have been the year as his career made headway professionally; a signing into Coded Tunes, the I.D Cabasa run label. In 2011, the Bariga-born rapper released his debut studio album, Rhapsodi, under Coded Tunes. “Eni Duro” and “Omo Toh Shan”, the lead singles on that album, began his love affair with the Nigerian and [a subsequently] wider world audience. Since after ‘Rhapsodi’…
On July 11, 2021, the world received news of Olanrewaju Abdul–Ganiu Fasasi a.k.a Sound Sultan’s passing. This writer’s mind was filled with mixed feelings. Grief was chief among my feelings. I suppose many did too. You see, everytime we hear news of death, an unexplainable introspection hits us. We remember it’ll one day be our turn. As the reality that our whole existence will then be in the minds of others or get forgotten, it breaks our heart . We query the very meaning of a life which eventually us to death and the [crazy] unending cycle that it is.…
Only a month ago, Mr Eazi had released his fourth studio project, an EP, which is named “Something Else”. It is a five track EP, with a duration of 12 minutes 47 seconds. . A sort of comeback for the Afrobeats singer, whose fans, I believe, have been itching to hear something from him in a while. The lead single, “The Don”, is a man talking of his ‘boss’ status. Mr Eazi subtly sings of how much work he put in to get where he is now; there is money now, and he likes to mind his business. The song…
