Duro Ikujenyo

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Duro Ikujenyo's Age of Aquarius "THE music itself is changing. Even whites are playing African music. Japanese bands are playing Afrobeat. Music is changing. Music is now a weapon for creating awareness, and bringing Africa back to its former glory." This was the submission of the foremost keyboardist and Jazz Hole Records producer, Duro Ikujenyo on the rational behind the release of Ase, a beautifully packaged CD whose production, no doubt, matches international standard. To underscore the significance and importance of this album, Duro, who is quite pleased with the recording, provided answer to the question instantly and rattled away into the circumstances that led to this all-important release. "I started recording with Jazz Hole a year before Fela died. I did not release any album until 10 years after, last October when I recorded a tribute to Fela at 70. "This is my second album which I am releasing. It is my first original work in my 30 years of professional music playing and has taken us ten years to put together. I started in 1999 - This is the tenth year." First, the contract with Jazz Hole must have expired after ten years, Duro, who is perhaps the hardest working artist in Nigeria today, had a lot of ups and downs, which militated against the release of the recording. In between sessions, he had an eye operation, which slowed him down, necessitated the emergence as an intervention by Jimi Solanke and Keziah Jones for the remixing of Surulere and Oriki Olorun

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