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Circle of Drums
Label: Chesky Records
Released: 2006
Track listing: Stepping (Isise); Incantations; Dawn (Idaji); Embracement; Ascension (Igoke); Cosmic
Rhythmic Vibrations.
Babatunde Olatunji: Circle of Drums
by Jeff Dayton-Johnson
Percussionist Babatunde Olatunji was born in a Yoruba-speaking fishing village in Nigeria in 1927 and succumbed to diabetes in Salinas, California in 2003. Why might Circle of Drums, a previously-unreleased 1993 recording, be of interest? In part because, if the prize for First World Music Record can be definitively awarded (and it probably cannot) a serious ...