Onilu - Onilu

Onilu — Onilu

Premium audiophile-quality 140-gram vinyl

Pressed at Fidelity Record Pressing from Kevin Gray/Cohearent Audio lacquers

Onilu is an all-percussionist trio utilizing the extensive family of drummed and tuned percussion instruments to deliver beautifully composed, arranged and executed small ensemble music. Nothing about this all-percussion band feels rarified, or missing anything musical. To the contrary, Onilu create a soundworld where nothing is missing, and everything is musical — defying the stereotype of modern percussion ensembles as esoteric or academic pursuits, reaffirming the powerful social and sacred musics made in african diasporic communities and across cultures by drum and percussion groups since the beginning of human time.

After nearly three decades working with such historic drummers as Denis Charles, Walter Perkins, Sunny Murray, Hamid Drake, Milford Graves, Susie Ibarra, Charles Bobo Shaw, and Han Bennink, it's Eremite records' joy and honor to give the drummers not some, but ALL the spotlight.

From Dana Hall's liner notes: "These three artists are master musicians and the music they present here is masterfully conceived. The drum, and its entire global family of membranophones, shakers, and idiophones, are conduits for their collective creative voice. In addition to drummers, they are also composers, and their works here represent a synthesis of ideas, concepts, and their individual dialectics on the language and syntax found in much of African and African Diasporic musics. A music that uses call and response. One that honors the past while looking forward to the future. A music that is principally concerned with feeling, mood, and storytelling. One that eschews frivolity and the baroque. A music that swings and grooves. I found myself dancing to this recording. Trust me, you, too, will find yourself rightfully and unapologetically dancing to this recording."

Musicians:
Joe Chambers, conga, drum kit, idiophones, marimba, shakere, vibraphone
Kevin Diehl, batá drums, cajóns, drum kit, electro-acoustic drum kit, guagua, shakere
Chad Taylor, alfaia, clave, clay drums, drum kit, mbira, marimba, piano, tongue drum, tympani, vibraphone

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