{"id":4310,"date":"2021-08-01T22:40:35","date_gmt":"2021-08-01T22:40:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ajdancelegacy.com\/~ajdance\/?p=4310"},"modified":"2022-12-02T04:43:24","modified_gmt":"2022-12-02T04:43:24","slug":"osunlade-24-07-21","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ajdancelegacy.com\/~ajdance\/osunlade-24-07-21\/","title":{"rendered":"OSUNLADE 24.07.21"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.ajdancelegacy.com\/~ajdance\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/osunladeblackhippie-1.jpg?ssl=1\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"4333\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/www.ajdancelegacy.com\/~ajdance\/osunlade-24-07-21\/osunladeblackhippie-jpg-2\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.ajdancelegacy.com\/~ajdance\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/osunladeblackhippie-1.jpg?fit=%2C&amp;ssl=1\" data-orig-size=\"\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"[]\" data-image-title=\"Osunlade.jpg\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-medium-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.ajdancelegacy.com\/~ajdance\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/osunladeblackhippie-1.jpg?w=580&amp;ssl=1\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.ajdancelegacy.com\/~ajdance\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/osunladeblackhippie-1.jpg?w=940&amp;ssl=1\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-4333\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.ajdancelegacy.com\/~ajdance\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/osunladeblackhippie-1.jpg?resize=1%2C1&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" width=\"1\" height=\"1\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<figure><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.ajdancelegacy.com\/~ajdance\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/09\/OSUNLADEblackhippie-scaled.jpg?w=695\" \/><\/figure>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\">Lend me your ear. To be told of what makes legends. Organic rhythm meets ancestral royalty. Playing for the divinities.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\">Music is telling. Stories. Folklore. Myths. All are versed through movement. After all, dancing is a spoken language. To learn how to speak a language; best advice is to travel to where the language is spoken.\u00a0\u00a0 To be immersed in the language. To be consumed in the language. The same holds true of dancing. Go where the dance lives.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\">On the dance floor, dancing is the body\u2019s natural reaction to music. Dancing to music forms a covalent bond to sound. For every song has a story. Every song tells a story. Stories told on dance floors the world over. Listen to their confessions.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\"><strong>2234<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\">When Donnie\u2019s \u201cCloud 9\u201d (The Quentin Harris Mix) warmly greets guests entering the establishment thereafter is Meli&#8217;sa Morgan\u2019s \u201cStill in Love\u201d (Meli&#8217;sa&#8217;s In the House) steering bodies to the dance floor. DJ Charles Gatlin provides the strewn soundtrack. There is something amiss about the sound emitting from several speaker cabinets front stage. That begs questioning. \u201cIs the volume low?\u201d The party\u2019s top promoter asks against loud thumps with no mid-range. The soundscape is not only challenged but the room\u2019s temperature. Can a dancer get some AC?<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\">Take a deep breath. Ah, the smell from cancer sticks chokes. For a break from the sweltering heat indoors, take a step outdoors. Onto the spacious patio, near the bar to the right, stands a circle of conversationalists.\u00a0\u00a0 Shooting the shit, gulping and inhaling to \u201c<\/span><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.traxsource.com\/title\/771410\/amulet-of-bravery-1\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Cuban Rum<\/a><\/span><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\">\u201d by Cassius MC Fawner. Music provided by <\/span><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/lstnin.com\/category\/artist\/nat-black\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Nat Black<\/a><\/span><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\"> standing behind hardware on a table planted on a spacious stage underneath a hanging banner. A breeze brushes gently against the hairline as faces smile seated at tables on the round. Sneakers easily glide across the cement.\u00a0\u00a0 Dancing underneath the stars is priceless. And outdoor dancing without masks is far safer than indoors dancing without masks. <\/span><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\"><em>Tellingly, only a handful of patrons wear the required masks indoors. <\/em><\/span><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\">Real talk, the main event should occur on the patio.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\">Back inside the sauna, cough <\/span><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/thetaverncharlotte.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Tavern<\/a><\/span><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\">, brings to mind the country and western saloons of yore. When watering holes spotlighted liquor.\u00a0 Think rustic walls and a bar as the center of attraction. Behold, the 21<\/span><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\"><sup>st<\/sup><\/span><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\"> century tavern come nightclub with faux plants and wall mirrors, not only serves lemon pepper wings but a wooden dance floor. Flanked by rectangular wood tables and tall black chairs. A waitress scurries by delivering mozzarella sticks to shadowy figures lurking at tables. The room is aphotic. So dark, there is difficultly recognizing the facial features on the lady asking, \u201cWhat\u2019s your name?\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\">Charlotte.<\/span> <\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\">Charlotte, North Carolina? The name is not synonymous with Afro\/deep house music culture, let alone registers on the GPS of cities to party. Alas, the winds of change a blow in Queen City. Where a group of like-minded promoters are determined to forge a moving soundtrack. Be it the deep sounds emanating from NYC to the acid of Chicago, the CLT is experiencing yet another house music revival.\u00a0\u00a0 This time, the man responsible for putting the heart back into the city\u2019s soulful house market is Orbit\u2019s top party promoter.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\">Steve Howerton is up next on the ones and twos. Telling his story through song and mix. Mouths sing \u201c<\/span><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.traxsource.com\/title\/1631463\/sacude\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Sacude<\/a><\/span><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\">\u201d as the Louie Vega Brooklyn Mix of Tony Touch\u2019s latest shakes booties and bodies alike, DJ Chus &amp; Sparrow &amp; Barbossa featuring Idd Aziz\u2019s \u201c<\/span><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/redolentmusic.bandcamp.com\/track\/nyakua-feat-idd-aziz\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Nyakua<\/a><\/span><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\">\u201d stuns with approval of screams and handclaps as Zepherine Saint X Miranda Nicole\u2019s \u201c<\/span><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/triberecords.bandcamp.com\/track\/shine\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Shine<\/a><\/span><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\">\u201d has everyone feelin\u2019 brighter than a mutha.\u2019 As the minutes dance onward, anticipation builds. The time arrives.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\"><strong>2400<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\">The heart feels the thump. The pulse of the rhythm shakes. The drums talk. Ancestral voices singing, \u201c<\/span><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.traxsource.com\/title\/140521\/lovery-all-mixes\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Lovery<\/a><\/span><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\">.\u201d The Tuccillo &amp; Kiko Navarro classic interpreted by Yoruba Soul needs no introduction. Yet is the perfect opener. To those unfamiliar with the Yoruba brand. Google <\/span><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.yorubasoul.com\/yorubasoul\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Yoruba Soul<\/a><\/span><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\">. Find the familiar face.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\">That smiles in front of fifty or so dancers. His mocha skin meets locs covered by a hair wrap.\u00a0\u00a0 Whose ear-wear, two giant gastropod shells dangling from elongated ear lobes make statements far greater than the black Motor City Wine tee he wears.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\">Born Christian Warren in Saint Louis, is where the adopted lad realized his love for music and devoted himself to his life-long call. During adolescence when his peers played ball and ran the streets, he was a maverick, never tagged or trope. After fleeing to the West Coast as a teenager by adulthood his pursuit to shed cooperate constraints for self-freedom led him to If\u00e1. When he realized, conceptualized, and packaged his sui generis. Orchestrating his sound. Architecting his lane. That distinguished him most amongst his musical influencers. Think no black artist was ever marketed as a soulful house music bohemian. That is until the rising of the artist known as Osunlade.\u00a0\u00a0 His mass appeal being a modern-day Black hippie.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\">That brings Ankara print, a MJ \u201cDangerous\u201d tee, white sneakers, and ball caps to crowd the tavern. There is diversity in age, gender and skin tone, sadly only a sprinkle represents the LGBTQ community.\u00a0\u00a0 Even the silver haired seated at the tables are now standing and shuffling their feet on the black carpet. Look above at the bodies swaying overlooking the glow of the revelry below the second floor. Partying to Tekniq featuring Colbert\u2019s \u201c<\/span><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/zakavibes.com\/download-mp3\/tekniq-ft-colbert-matters-of-the-heart\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Matters of the Heart<\/a><\/span><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\">.\u201d Your new FSF: favorite song forever.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\"><strong>The Story Teller<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\">Osunlade is well versed at the art of storytelling. Stories told through music. He plays that speaks volumes. Be spoken prayers to ceremonial rituals in native tongues. The crowd never assumes. At this particular ceremony, the outspoken artist speaks a most striking colloquy. Expected is his compendious catalog of chart toppers; \u201c<\/span><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/yorubarecords.bandcamp.com\/album\/idiosyncracy\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Idiosyncrasy<\/a><\/span><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\">,\u201d the anthem, \u201c<\/span><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/osunlade.bandcamp.com\/album\/dionne-what-gets-you-high\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Dionne<\/a><\/span><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\">,\u201d the loop, and \u201c<\/span><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/osunlade.bandcamp.com\/album\/cantos-a-ochun-et-oya-juan-valentine-re-edit\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Cantos A Ochun Et Oya<\/a><\/span><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\">,\u201d the classic, and the who\u2019s who of his Yoruba Family, Afefe Iku to <\/span><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/osunlade.bandcamp.com\/track\/oro-2\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Mike Steva<\/a><\/span><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\">, thrown in his playlist. But thus far Osunlade\u2019s narrative takes an unexpected turn.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\">Into progressive house territory via DJEFF &amp; Black Motion featuring Malehloka &amp; Miss P\u2019s \u201c<\/span><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.traxsource.com\/title\/1351649\/dont-let-me-go\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Don\u2019t Let Me Go<\/a><\/span><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\">\u201d that builds into a frenzy of cheers and a whirlwind of bodies spinning 360 degrees. Pelago\u2019s \u201c<\/span><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.traxsource.com\/title\/1211042\/era-pelago\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Tone Depth<\/a><\/span><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\">\u201d electrifies. Music like this is not worthy to be played for mere mortals. When harmonic flutes and keys play solo before the drums crash down on dancing heads, sends an inebriated dude karate chopping his arms and stomping his feet for the remainder of the party. Poor guy. His muscles will be sore come tomorrow.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\">The High Priest of house music gives the crowd a breather by playing \u201cDionne\u201d before he whips his tribe back into a furor, this time with G-Washington featuring Miriam Makeba\u2019s \u201c<\/span><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.traxsource.com\/title\/1199986\/hyenah-presents-rise-radar-01\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Warrior Mbube<\/a><\/span><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\">,\u201d the voice of the ancestors. That provides the escape for these troubling times.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\">\u201cSqueeek. Pow. Pow. Pow.\u201d Is dancing to Heavy-K\u2019s \u201c<\/span><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.traxsource.com\/title\/290598\/gunsong\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Gunsong<\/a><\/span><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\">\u201d a guilty pleasure during America\u2019s current pandemic &#8211; gun violence?<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\">Throw into the mix Roberta Flack cooing \u201cKilling Me Softly With His Song.\u201d And dang. Are the people dancing into Osunlade\u2019s twisted warped fantasy?<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\">Yes! Playing Afefe Iku&#8217;s \u201c<\/span><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/osunlade.bandcamp.com\/track\/mirror-dance\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Mirror Dance<\/a><\/span><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\">\u201d at any other party is well, trite, but tonight is befitting as this marks the genre defining star\u2019s debut gig in the CLT.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\">Watching Osunlade communicating through movement while playing music is as entertaining as listening to Osunlade communicating through the music he plays.\u00a0 Most of the time, the artist bops, leans back and dips low while he holds the controls but tonight he minimally sways left to right. That is disappointing, unlike the shaking of percussions and drums galloping through the muffled soundscape. Again, the playlist oscillates this time showcasing his remixes.\u00a0\u00a0 Osunlade\u2019s Lonely Mix of Tortured Soul\u2019s \u201c<\/span><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.traxsource.com\/track\/4998116\/i-might-do-something-wrong-osunlade-lonely-mix\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">I Might Do Something Wrong<\/a><\/span><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\">,\u201d the anthem that put Yoruba Soul on the global map of Afrocentric house segues into the Osunlade Yoruba Soul Remix of Jazztronik\u2019s, \u201cDentro Mi Alma\u201d that energizes a Latino couple to merengue.\u00a0 Or not.\u00a0 In the center of the wooden floor stands one NASCAR loving bro and four bleached blondes scratching their heads, thinking, \u201cI don\u2019t know what to make of what is going on.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\">Of course, there is no Osunlade rite without Osunlade paying homage to the Purple One. Late Nite Tuff Guy\u2019s \u201c<\/span><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/razor-n-tape.bandcamp.com\/album\/rnt002-late-nite-tuff-guy-edits\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Do I Believe in God<\/a><\/span><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\">\u201d (LNTG Muscle Mix) throws dancing feet a controversy but brings out some sensual sexy swerves. Wait. Is that Atlanta\u2019s Ghostcam standing inside the sound booth filming the ancestral ceremony?<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\">Experience the pulse of the dance floor. From the beating of live drumming of the conga. When the drum talks, speaking freely to those that communicate by stomping feet and gyrating hips. Feel the shakers creating seismic waves bouncing off the ceiling rafters. A small dance circle crops open.\u00a0\u00a0 Where one dancer crowned with dreads kneels on bended knee and holds the cencerro for the drummer to beat in staccato jabs. Visualize the magnetic joy as one woman with arms outstretched welcomes her ancestors in a communion of movement. A glance around the room reveals many souls experiencing out-of-body bliss as Aquarian Dreams\u2019 \u201cLove &amp; Tears\u201d (Original Club Mix) plays on.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\">\u201cYou can\u2019t be tired,\u201d says another dancer to two women seated on the elevated platform of the once VIP section. \u201cI drove all the way from Atlanta and he from Virginia,\u201d he continues. To whom one of the women appears shocked. Telling the story works. The younger lady picks up her feet and steps her leg out showcasing fancy footwork.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\">The mind says no. Don\u2019t do it. But the body says yes. The knees drop to the wooden tiles. As the spine inches ever so slowly backwards to every thump until the flesh touches the floor. Supta Virasana. This is reclining hero\u2019s pose. To Detroit\u2019s Theo Parrish featuring Maurissa Rose\u2019s \u201c<\/span><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.traxsource.com\/title\/1235919\/this-is-for-you\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">This Is For You<\/a><\/span><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\">.\u201d That serves as Osunlade\u2019s closing love letter to the thirty individuals left dancing.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\">Thinking, if someone had the idea to sell sweat rags at the event, they could rub shoulders with Dangote and Adenuga, or at least Winfrey. Again, holding the party outdoors would have been novel. Where the sound system played crisp and clear. Where the setup was spacious. The cement had less traction. The temperature was less suffocating. Who better to play a moon ritual than Osunlade? Now that would be a celebration of Olympic proportions. Yet the sweltering heat could not hold back the multi-talented multi-hyphenated self-proclaimed \u201cburner.\u201d Instead the \u201c<\/span><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/yorubasoul.bandcamp.com\/album\/iamone\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Build a Fire<\/a><\/span><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\">\u201d producer brought additional heat. That set the room ablaze. Heaping burning coals atop dancing heads. Telling his story through melody and refrain. In what was the epic party of the summer.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">words: aj dance<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">graphic: aj art<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<div class=\"fcbkbttn_buttons_block\" id=\"fcbkbttn_left\"><div class=\"fcbkbttn_button\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/ajdance76\" target=\"_blank\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.ajdancelegacy.com\/~ajdance\/wp-content\/plugins\/facebook-button-plugin\/images\/standard-facebook-ico.png?w=695&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"Fb-Button\" \/>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/a>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div><div class=\"fcbkbttn_like \"><fb:like href=\"https:\/\/www.ajdancelegacy.com\/~ajdance\/osunlade-24-07-21\/\" action=\"like\" colorscheme=\"light\" layout=\"standard\"  width=\"450px\" size=\"small\"><\/fb:like><\/div><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Lend me your ear. To be told of what makes legends. Organic rhythm meets ancestral royalty. 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