{"id":41676,"date":"2019-06-12T10:48:01","date_gmt":"2019-06-12T08:48:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/pan-african-music.com\/ojo-balingo-the-mysterious-juju-master\/"},"modified":"2020-04-27T03:35:12","modified_gmt":"2020-04-27T02:35:12","slug":"ojo-balingo-the-mysterious-juju-master","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pan-african-music.com\/en\/ojo-balingo-the-mysterious-juju-master\/","title":{"rendered":"Ojo Balingo, the mysterious juju master"},"content":{"rendered":"<h4 class=\"pam-featured-content\" ><span class=\"pam-featured-content\"  style=\"color: #333333;\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-26180 pam-featured-content\"  src=\"https:\/\/pan-african-music-production.fra1.digitaloceanspaces.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/Ojo-Balingo-BBE.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1000\" height=\"700\" srcset=\"https:\/\/pan-african-music-production.fra1.digitaloceanspaces.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/Ojo-Balingo-BBE.jpg 1000w, https:\/\/pan-african-music-production.fra1.digitaloceanspaces.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/Ojo-Balingo-BBE-759x531.jpg 759w, https:\/\/pan-african-music-production.fra1.digitaloceanspaces.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/Ojo-Balingo-BBE-661x463.jpg 661w, https:\/\/pan-african-music-production.fra1.digitaloceanspaces.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/Ojo-Balingo-BBE-465x326.jpg 465w, https:\/\/pan-african-music-production.fra1.digitaloceanspaces.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/Ojo-Balingo-BBE-375x263.jpg 375w\" sizes=\"(min-width:1010px) 759px,100vw\" loading=\"lazy\" \/><\/span><\/h4>\n<h4><span style=\"color: #333333;\">Thanks to BBE, juju music\u00a0finds its way out of the Yoruba&#8217;s circle with the reissue of an enigmatic album of Ojo Balingo.<\/span><\/h4>\n<p><span style=\"color: #333333;\">British label keeps its exploration of record label Tabansi&#8217;s archives with a fake dusty compilation of juju music orchestrated by the very\u00a0confidential\u00a0Ojo Balingo.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #333333;\">Popularise by\u00a0King Sunny Ad\u00e9 in the 80s, juju (or\u00a0j\u00f9j\u00fa)\u00a0saw\u00a0the light of day in the 20s, through Nigerian South-West clubs, with the concerts of Tunde King \u2014 one of the first to record this genre. Tabansi released in 1985 this album with an ambiguous title, \u00ab Afrotunes \u2013 Best of Juju Vol. II \u2013 Oba Mimo Olorun Ayo \u00bb.\u00a0Even if it was stamped as &#8220;Various Artists&#8221;, the album is made of two long pieces of height tracks split and played by the same musicians.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #333333;\">As this long jam goes by, we heard the main ingredients of juju, a genre built to be played live. The album blends traditions with avant-garde, between Yoruba percussions and funky grooves, psychedelic rock effects and political texts that resounds with tamas.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #333333;\"> Afrotunes \u2013 Best of Juju Vol. II \u2013 Oba Mimo Olorun Ayo, released on June 28, 2019, via BBE Music. Preorder <a style=\"color: #333333;\" href=\"https:\/\/orcd.co\/afrotunes\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">here<\/a> and listen to the album teaser <a style=\"color: #333333;\" href=\"https:\/\/www.bbemusic.com\/downloads\/afrotunes-best-of-juju\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">here<\/a>.<\/span><\/p>\n<h5><span style=\"color: #333333;\">Read next:\u00a0<a style=\"color: #333333;\" href=\"https:\/\/pan-african-music.com\/en\/5-nigerian-classics-albums-of-the-80s\/\">5 Nigerian classic albums of the 80s<\/a><\/span><\/h5>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Thanks to BBE, juju music\u00a0finds its way out of the Yoruba&#8217;s circle with the reissue of an enigmatic album of Ojo Balingo. 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