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Saturday, 26 April 2008
Ajo se po (‘Unity’) is the third album by Kevin Haynes and Grupo Eleguá,
following Tomorrow’s path (1997) and Ori ire (2002). One sense of the title
Unity’ is the way Haynes brings together strands of different musical traditions
from Africa and the New World.
Ajo se po\ continues Kevin’s exploration of traditional Afro-Cuban, Nigerian and
jazz musical idioms, but it is the first Grupo Eleguá album to feature a koraplayer
(Diabel Cissokho). Ajo se po reveals Haynes’s mature musical vision and
his integration of musical elements with reference to a deepening spiritual
understanding.
Haynes has created a modal harmonic language sufficiently flexible to
incorporate Afro-Cuban melodies and classical kora-playing. All tracks on this
album are original compositions by Haynes, and the personal voice of his alto
saxophone is the main focus of Grupo Eleguá.
There is a Yoruba spirituality at the heart of Kevin’s musical thinking which has
both Nigerian and Cuban dimensions. This is especially reflected in the use of
recitation and in the batá drumming. Cuban batá drums are employed on all the
tracks, and each piece grows out of a particular batá rhythm (dedicated to a
particular orisha or divinity).
In the following notes on each track, examples of batá parts are written in 6/8,
but naturally these parts are heard as triplet movement in 4/4 by the other
instrumentalists. Needless to say, the notated basic rhythm gives only an
indication of the conversations and variations of this rich music.
 
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