Gaspar Lawal - Ajomasé [Cap Records, Vinyl: VG] * ORIG 1980 PRESSING * AFROBEAT

	£		45
	$		59

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Gaspar Lawal - Ajomasé, Cap Records CAP 1 GASPER LAWAL has played with the Stones to Funkadelic. Ajomase is African percussive music written around Gasper Lawal's drums and percussion. It's a pure music record, filled with exquisite passages, blending chanting tunes, a jazz feel, and a myriad of sources. There’s some real magic here. It’s rich and densely woven music, featuring some of the accomplished West African musicians knocking around London at the time, including Ray Otu Allen on saxophone and the great Joni Haastrup of the band Monomono playing various instruments. Right from the mid-tempo groove of opener “Jeka José,” the sophistication of the arrangements is apparent: Splashes of piano, horns, guitar, hand drums, backing vocal harmonies, and Lawal’s own singing, often loose and informal, but capable of great depth and verve. British studio recordings of African musicians of the era could often feel a little sterile when compared to the awesome raw power of what was happening in the recording studios of Lagos. Fortunately, Ajomasé never feels overly slick or inauthentic: “Awon-Ojise-Oluwa” includes triumphant horns and heavy bassline that nods to the era’s Afrobeat. “Kita Kita” features sunny highlife rhythms but throws in some clipped echoing vocal patterns perhaps inspired by dub music, and bits of psych guitar. And it’s very easy to draw a line from the spectral feeling of the drums on “Oro-Moro” and the kind of bespoke percussion Fiona Apple so effectively favored years later.

Grading scale: NM > EX > VG+ > VG > Good > Poor)

Vinyl: VG. You can still listen to it and enjoy looking at it, but it is visually and audibly used. The finish is lacking most of the original gloss found on factory-fresh records. There may be light scratches that could be audible, especially in soft passages. But the noise does not overpower the music. Labels are superb, clean and bright without marks. Spindle shows no sign of wear. And no warps.

Cover: VG+. SPINE: Clear, readable text | SEAMS: Top & Bottom intact without splits | CREASES: None or minor only | RING WEAR : None | DEFACING: Tape removal mark top rear | (Actual images so you can check the condition)

Will combine for shipping if you buy mixed singles and albums. If you buy multiple items wait for invoice with correct shipping cost.

Records are packed well with extra protection and LPs taken out of sleeves. Double-LP usually works as 1LP but no extra protection.

Tracks:

A1 Jeka José 4:04 A2 Kita Kita 6:00 A3 Eronu 5:43 B1 Ajomasé 7:52 B2 Awon Ojise Oluwa 6:20 B3 Oro Moro 5:08 B4 Saikoskro 0:57

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