E Dide (Get Up)

Editorial Reviews

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E Dide (Get Up) is an experiment for King Sunny Ade. With shorter song times, it's a blatant attempt to get him on the radio. Does it work? Yes and no. The good news is that the material is as strong as Juju Music and Odu. The bad news is that editing his work into five-and-a-half-minute songs does him no favors. Along with his band, the prolific Nigerian needs room to stretch out and let each piece ebb and flow, powered by a phalanx of 11 percussionists. The trademark pedal steel guitar is in evidence throughout the album, winding in and out of Ade's vocal lines, and the call-and-response vocals take the entire sound back home. But just as a song begins to get interesting, it's over, and so on E Dide there's no chance to experience the true power of this band in full flight. --Chris Nickson

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E Dide (Get Up)
Average customer rating: 5 out of 5 stars
  • a work of genius
  • It is awesome in composition and listening
E Dide (Get Up)
King Sunny Ade
Manufacturer: Atlantic / Wea
ProductGroup: Music
Binding: Audio CD

GeneralGeneral | Africa | International | Styles | Music
NigeriaNigeria | Africa | International | Styles | Music
GeneralGeneral | International | Styles | Music
GeneralGeneral | Pop | Styles | Music
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  1. Odu
  2. Seven Degrees North
  3. Live Live Ju Ju
  4. Juju Music
  5. Juju Jubilation

ASIN: B000002JVK
Release Date: 1995-11-21

Tracks:

  1. E Dide E Mujo
  2. Ara Ma Nfe Sinmi
  3. Oshodi Oke
  4. Orisun Iye
  5. Ose, Ose
  6. Yoruba
  7. Ope Oku
  8. Dance, Dance, Dance
  9. Iya Mi
  10. Alashe L'Aiye
  11. Omode O'Mela
  12. Enia L'Asho Mi
  13. Ode Le Alaga

Amazon.com

E Dide (Get Up) is an experiment for King Sunny Ade. With shorter song times, it's a blatant attempt to get him on the radio. Does it work? Yes and no. The good news is that the material is as strong as Juju Music and Odu. The bad news is that editing his work into five-and-a-half-minute songs does him no favors. Along with his band, the prolific Nigerian needs room to stretch out and let each piece ebb and flow, powered by a phalanx of 11 percussionists. The trademark pedal steel guitar is in evidence throughout the album, winding in and out of Ade's vocal lines, and the call-and-response vocals take the entire sound back home. But just as a song begins to get interesting, it's over, and so on E Dide there's no chance to experience the true power of this band in full flight. --Chris Nickson

Customer Reviews:

5 out of 5 stars a work of genius.......2000-03-31

At first listen, this music is intriguing, interesting, quietly exciting. But the more you listen, as the songs become familiar, the better it gets. The quiet, gentle, good-natured, understated voices; the intricate pulsing drum and guitar rhythms; the memorable melody fragments, sometimes in the voices, sometimes in the drums, sometimes in the guitars -- this is great stuff. I've played this in my car hundreds of times by now, and I'm not the least bit tired of it. It keeps its freshness. Instead of thinking of it as a string of songs, I regard it as a kind of exotic jazz symphony, though more original than practically any jazz I've ever heard.

5 out of 5 stars It is awesome in composition and listening.......1998-06-05

This Cd is great from start to finish. Highly energetic and good composition. Couple with good drums and strings.

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