{"id":87863,"date":"2025-02-14T14:37:59","date_gmt":"2025-02-14T14:37:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/peraltafinancing.com\/african-music\/an-ewi-deep-dive-with-lanrewaju-adepoju\/"},"modified":"2025-02-14T14:37:59","modified_gmt":"2025-02-14T14:37:59","slug":"an-ewi-deep-dive-with-lanrewaju-adepoju","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/fivemor.com\/?p=87863","title":{"rendered":"An \u00c8wi Deep Dive with Lanrewaju Adep\u1ecdju"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<p><\/p>\n<div class=\"separator\" style=\"clear: both; text-align: center;\">\n<a href=\"https:\/\/blogger.googleusercontent.com\/img\/b\/R29vZ2xl\/AVvXsEiPQwbq3JMNIM9oOGoyP_B1mHXUyx2AqX5sSJFNrZm5nzffahg5HM6BkAzP6aZkU4F87moyg9qP43xKyPKg-m-uiRDnhx6l_FCnejv2MG2v1Jkdfe0jEoFYxV2iV1HzwcFHwkrHQGzZDk0\/s1600\/Front.jpg\" imageanchor=\"1\" style=\"margin-left: 0em; margin-right: 0em;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" border=\"0\" data-original-height=\"1600\" data-original-width=\"1600\" height=\"480\" src=\"https:\/\/blogger.googleusercontent.com\/img\/b\/R29vZ2xl\/AVvXsEiPQwbq3JMNIM9oOGoyP_B1mHXUyx2AqX5sSJFNrZm5nzffahg5HM6BkAzP6aZkU4F87moyg9qP43xKyPKg-m-uiRDnhx6l_FCnejv2MG2v1Jkdfe0jEoFYxV2iV1HzwcFHwkrHQGzZDk0\/s1600\/Front.jpg\" width=\"480\"\/><\/a><\/div>\n<p>\nEven if I weren&#8217;t already a huge fan of Lanrewaju Adep\u1ecdju, I would have bought this album for the cover art alone! <i>Al\u00e1f\u1ecdw\u00f3sow\u00f3p\u00f3<\/i>\u00a0(Lanre Adepoju Records LALPS 72, 1980) is a tribute to the cooperative movement in Nigeria: &#8220;The greatest weapon the masses have to fight the formidable forces of oppressive capitalism, mindless and the unconcerned attitude of few privileged rich overlords, is to form themselves into cooperative societies.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>\nIn <a href=\"https:\/\/likembe.blogspot.com\/2012\/04\/alasa-of-ibadanland.html\">a previous post<\/a>, I wrote of Alhaji Adepoju and his mastery of the Yoruba poetic form known as <i>\u00e8wi<\/i>, of which this LP is a fine example. Many of his compositions deal with Islamic religious themes but apparently not the ones here. Although I know only a few words of Yoruba, I find his lyrical declamations thoroughly entrancing. And check out the instrumental breaks from 12:32 to 13:37 and from 16:01 to 16:46 in the first track. Somebody should sample those!<\/p>\n<p>Download\u00a0<i>Al\u00e1f\u1ecdw\u00f3sow\u00f3p\u00f3\u00f3\u00a0<\/i>as a zipped file <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mediafire.com\/file\/vdkrbstyoho3qfh\/Alafowosowopo.zip\/file\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<div class=\"separator\" style=\"clear: both; text-align: center;\">\n<a href=\"https:\/\/blogger.googleusercontent.com\/img\/b\/R29vZ2xl\/AVvXsEj_EYARiV_fIYOtHdlckivXVymUFGbU_ZP_gZI7gRxl5aRWXp3q-dJdeLjUsMZnxNHdatSua7m0lauVbLqkRyfIXOjJogymWYF-qU7ugjQZcUpODTdgWdf4MQOruQll274Pr_0CcS6o224\/s1600\/Back.jpg\" imageanchor=\"1\" style=\"margin-left: 0em; margin-right: 0em;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" border=\"0\" data-original-height=\"1600\" data-original-width=\"1600\" height=\"480\" src=\"https:\/\/blogger.googleusercontent.com\/img\/b\/R29vZ2xl\/AVvXsEj_EYARiV_fIYOtHdlckivXVymUFGbU_ZP_gZI7gRxl5aRWXp3q-dJdeLjUsMZnxNHdatSua7m0lauVbLqkRyfIXOjJogymWYF-qU7ugjQZcUpODTdgWdf4MQOruQll274Pr_0CcS6o224\/s1600\/Back.jpg\" width=\"480\"\/><\/a><\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Even if I weren&#8217;t already a huge fan of Lanrewaju Adep\u1ecdju, I would have bought this album for the cover art alone! 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