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Babatunde Olatunji – Drums Of Passion (VG/G+) – LP, AU 1960
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Drums Of Passion is an LP by Babatunde Olatunji from 1960 released on the Coronet label.
About this album
Drums Of Passion is a landmark recording in Babatunde Olatunji’s career and one of the key albums that brought African percussion to international listeners. Issued in 1960, it presented a vivid, rhythm-driven blend of chants, drumming and call-and-response performances that felt both ceremonial and immediate. Olatunji’s musical vision helped expand Western pop and jazz audiences’ awareness of African traditions, and the album’s influence reached far beyond its original folk and world context. Its enduring reputation rests on the power of its rhythmic drive, its cultural importance and the way it turned percussion into a headline attraction.
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A1 Akiwowo (Chant To The Trainman)
A2 Oya (Primitive Fire)
A3 Odun De! Odun De! (Happy New Year)
A4 Jin-Go-Lo-Ba (Drums Of Passion)
B1 Kiyakiya (Why Do You Run Away?)
B2 Baba Jinde (Flirtation Dance)
B3 Oyin Momo Ado (Sweet As Honeybee)
B4 Shango (Chant To The God Of Thunder)