Size: 6 piece & up
Type: Singer / Songwriter
URL: http://www.ola-onabule.co.uk/

OLA ONABULE - SEVEN SHADES DARKER



Soul and Jazz, Singer and songwriter, OLA ONABULE returns to British Columbia this November for his third visit to Canada after his magnificent debut in 2009 on the main stage of the Montreal Jazz Festival on their 30th Anniversary.  Ola Onabule will perform material from his 7th studio album, SEVEN SHADES DARKER,  Grooves undoubtedly rooted in the Soul and Blues of the late sixties and early Seventies make an unlikely but easy peace with mournful, complex African melodic lines. On other tracks, wailing distorted guitars cling to the helter-skelter ride of poly-rhythmic time signatures that seem to unsettle and soothe the ear in equal measures. Seemingly conventional 4/4 grooves beguile with inviting familiarity whilst slipping potent lyrical nuggets under the radar of our assumptions. Ballads are new requiems, odes to the passing of loved ones,  Funky jaunts document the ebbing away of precious time, and deal with  jealousy, cowardice, loss of identity and the world through the eyes of an unwanted visitor is set to the galloping gait of an african church hymn. Ola, in very fine voice, twists and turns at every step, eluding definition and reveling in all his gifts like a child, celebrating this rare feat in the modern recording era of a seventh album!



 

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