Thirty-five years ago, Bey sparked Pierre's passion for the African drum when he heard Bey leading Olatunji’s Drums of Passion. Bey's work with Randy Weston and Art Blakey helped introduce the African drum into jazz. You’ll hear Bey and his 6 priest-drummers surrounding you in a burning drums-and-voice session, seamlessly merging intense Yoruba rituals with black spirituals. The recording’s detail reproduces the slap of callused hands on goatskin drumheads; the imaging pinpoints each drummer’s ceremonial dancing and swaying.
Track Listing
1. Introduction
2. Yemoja -Listen to Sample
3. Odudwa/Precious Lord
4. Mind Your Own Business -Listen to Full Song
5. Samba For Yemoja -Listen to Sample
6. Motherless Child
7. Oduduwa Medley II
8. Down By The Riverside/When The Saints Go Marching In/Araya Yemoja
9. Old Time Religion/Onibode
10. Daddy Says
11. Epilogue
