{"id":5241,"date":"2024-04-01T21:28:16","date_gmt":"2024-04-01T21:28:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ajdancelegacy.com\/~ajdance\/?p=5241"},"modified":"2024-07-08T19:25:18","modified_gmt":"2024-07-08T19:25:18","slug":"osunlade-17-03-24","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ajdancelegacy.com\/~ajdance\/osunlade-17-03-24\/","title":{"rendered":"OSUNLADE 17.03.24"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a><\/p>\n

Lucky I\u2019m Black<\/b><\/span><\/p>\n

Osunlade Gets His Flowers<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cHappy birthday to you.\u201d A chorus sings across the expanse of fluorescent and exchange.\u00a0 <\/span>Thereafter, an elder directs those gathered to belt the livelier soul-stirring rendition of Stevie Wonder\u2019s \u201cHappy Birthday.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cPeople always forget the lyrics to the second verse.\u201d Everyone\u2019s Favorite Photographer mentions over the growing serenade.\u201d\u00a0 <\/span>The time reads 9:30 pm.\u00a0 <\/span>Wait!\u00a0 <\/span>The day party was advertised to conclude at 8 pm.\u00a0 <\/span>Oh well.\u00a0 <\/span>Here we are at 9:30.\u00a0 <\/span>Here we are.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

4:30 hours earlier<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n

\u201cBrooklyn?\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cNah.\u00a0 <\/span>I\u2019m from the Bronx baby.\u201d\u00a0 <\/span>A woman yells to the towering figure with a protruding jaw who name checks identification.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cI don\u2019t know how they gettin\u2019 back home.\u201d\u00a0 <\/span>She jokes.\u00a0 <\/span>Her index finger points to the woman and man accompanying her through the entrance.\u00a0 <\/span>\u201cI showed you my ticket already.\u201d\u00a0 <\/span>She lies to the lithe brunette behind the counter. \u201cRemember?\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

These walls talk.\u00a0 <\/span>You overhear hootin\u2019 and hollerin\u2019 as you strut the great red hall.\u00a0 <\/span>Redrum comes to mind.\u00a0 <\/span>Take an abrupt right turn in the dark.\u00a0 <\/span>The room expands.\u00a0 <\/span>In view are heads tilted upward, eyes shut and bodies spinning around glowing columns shaped as overgrown calla lilies reaching towards the ceiling where fiery reds fade to black.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

The beating of congas slowly ebbs into a slow-burner groove.\u00a0 <\/span>The drums and vocals reminiscent of classic R&B radio jams.\u00a0 <\/span>To some the song is unrecognizable.\u00a0 <\/span>Much like driving down Memorial Avenue SE these days.\u00a0 <\/span>And why did GPS lead you to a gated dead-end?\u00a0 <\/span>You digress.\u00a0 <\/span>Wandering in these city streets on a Sunday evening is much like the music selector.\u00a0 <\/span>She takes risks.\u00a0 <\/span>Tina Marie\u2019s \u201cOut On A Limb\u201d blasts from overhead speaker cabinets.<\/span><\/p>\n

The playlist is courtesy Atlanta transplant Selek Kae.\u00a0 <\/span>The Brooklyn native plays all.\u00a0 <\/span>Be ballads that awaken by the cabasa and vibraslaps at 124 beats per minute.\u00a0 <\/span>Take Switzerland\u2019s Pad Beryll\u2019s featuring vocalist South Africa\u2019s Toshi \u201cLet Me See<\/a>,\u201d re-released on King Street Sounds.\u00a0 <\/span>Miss Kae slays.\u00a0 <\/span>Her eyes dart to and fro behind translucent frames.\u00a0 <\/span>Her fingers steadies the fader.\u00a0 <\/span>She orchestrates the tempo.\u00a0 <\/span>The Doug Gomez Merecumbe Extended Mix scorches.<\/span><\/p>\n

A much needed water break arrives as Afefe Iku\u2019s with OVEOUS \u201cMirror Dance<\/a>\u201d (Yoruba Soul Remix) plays that just feels-tired.\u00a0 <\/span>Smell that?\u00a0 <\/span>The aroma of smoked meats that will later turn into scents of unwashed crevices.\u00a0 <\/span>Turn around, into the room walks the headliner of the event.\u00a0 <\/span>As his song plays, his multi-pattern tunic, striped scarf and acid denim clad frame sits on a colored lime cushion.\u00a0 <\/span>The Black Hippee speaks with the sisters and poses for photos.\u00a0 <\/span>He grabs a hand-crafted drink.\u00a0 <\/span>Welcome to El Malo<\/a>.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cWhere your pleasure is taken seriously.\u201d\u00a0 <\/span>Their website reads.\u00a0 <\/span>El Malo is not many things, but many things.\u00a0 <\/span>Signature cocktails.\u00a0 <\/span>Succulent gastronomy.\u00a0 <\/span>A forbidden sanctum.\u00a0 <\/span>The perfect refuge to flex and flaunt.\u00a0 <\/span>As OVEOUS & QVLN\u2019s \u201cQuemar<\/a>\u201d (Atjazz Galaxy Aart Mix) keeps your toes bouncing with your dance partner.\u00a0 <\/span>Who receives the award for wearing the best statement tee, \u201cLucky I\u2019m Black.\u201d\u00a0 <\/span>Anyone up to celebrate with sum\u2019 \u201cChocolate Puddin’<\/a>?\u201d\u00a0 <\/span>The Osunlade and James Curd release is remixed by Atlanta\u2019s own.\u00a0 <\/span>The perfect nod to the NDATL label head.\u00a0 <\/span>Kai Alc\u00e9 is at the bar, eyeing a designer bottle of water.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Turnabout.\u00a0 <\/span>View the three mothers draped in head-to-toe white.\u00a0 <\/span>Their bodies aligned in formation.\u00a0 <\/span>Be dazzled by their head wraps.\u00a0 <\/span>Be charmed by their torsos that swivel left right, right left.\u00a0 <\/span>Be swept by their floor-length dresses twirling through the throngs of LIVE streamers, flash photographers, and flood lights.\u00a0 <\/span>Their bare feet prance forward, then march left and stop front center the altar.\u00a0 <\/span>There stands shoeless their High Priest.<\/span><\/p>\n

Osunlade\u00a0<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n

The ever outspoken Osunlade brings out the women.\u00a0 <\/span>They\u2019re having caviar and conversations in plush booths.\u00a0 <\/span>Sipping on Pi\u00f1a Clara at the opulent bar.\u00a0 <\/span>Two-stepping across the concrete.\u00a0 Recently<\/span>, Mr. Yoruba Soul<\/a> told Ria Hylton at DJ Mag<\/a>,\u201d he plays [music] for the ladies. Dudes are only there to judge.\u201d This evening, Atlanta wants to prove him wrong.<\/span><\/p>\n

All genders rush the altar. A great upward expansion flanked with emerald plastic ovals.\u00a0 <\/span>Many in the crowd, adorned in Ankara print and color appear possessed by rhythm and drums.\u00a0 <\/span>People evoking ancient movements.\u00a0 <\/span>When all beings become living instruments, shaking tambourines and beating percussions and boisterously singing , \u201cbring it back, sing it back.\u201d\u00a0 <\/span>An ancestral cover of the Irish-English duo Moloko.<\/span><\/p>\n

After hugging Miss Selek Kae and praising her for a proper opening ceremony, OVEOUS & Don Kamaares\u2019 \u201cLegacy<\/a>\u201d arrives. The time has come to stop playing.\u00a0 <\/span>Break out the head stands and hand spins to Detroit\u2019s Johnny Malek\u2019s \u201cI Promise<\/a>\u201d that contains interpolations from Atlanta\u2019s late LaShun Pace\u2019s \u201cI Promised the Lord.\u201d\u00a0 <\/span>That plays like sitting in a Baptist church with no AC.\u00a0 <\/span>Much like the temperature in this Bad Boy.\u00a0 <\/span>\u201cWE OUTSIDE!!!!\u201d A Puerto Rican bonita announces next to you while fanning perspiring foreheads.\u00a0 <\/span>Just in time, more hand fans appear.\u00a0 <\/span>Their \u201cclacks\u201d sound on the ones and threes over the Afro driven Enoo Napa Remix of \u201cSolo<\/a>\u201d from Luka & Sio.<\/span><\/p>\n

If the soul of Detroit could be packaged as leather Bibles and sold for $60, Louie Vega\u2019s featuring Moodymann \u201cSeven Mile<\/a>\u201d would make Black Jesus proud.\u00a0 <\/span>Track number seven on Expansions In The NYC<\/a><\/em>\u00a0comes hard.\u00a0 <\/span>Shout out to the live percussionist.\u00a0 <\/span>His drumming does not interfere, eclipse, or diverge in opposing rhythm.\u00a0 <\/span>His drumming compliments.\u00a0 <\/span>The recorded elements that speaks-beckoning to dance with you, around you, and through you.<\/span><\/p>\n

Women scream for Floetry.\u00a0 <\/span>Men scream for Floetry.\u00a0 <\/span>When the music disappears on the Osunlade Mix, \u201call you gotta do is say yes.\u201d\u00a0 <\/span>People sing from hungry mouths.\u00a0 <\/span>Cause Atlanta is hungry.\u00a0 <\/span>Real hungry.\u00a0 <\/span>ATL ain\u2019t danced to the orchestrator of ancestral house for a good minute.\u00a0 <\/span>One would think Hotlanta had lost it.\u00a0 <\/span>Until now.\u00a0 <\/span>\u201cSay Yes\u201d is the rowdiest response so far.<\/span><\/p>\n

But it\u2019s \u201cMama\u2019s Groove<\/a>\u201d (Jimpster\u2019s Hip Replacement Mix) that makes you drop, pause in mid-squat and jump to your feet in front of dance partner number two, smiling in her shamrock green tee that reads \u201cKiss Me I\u2019m Lucky.\u201d\u00a0 <\/span>After a round of fancy foot shuffles, she spins and dips.\u00a0 <\/span>\u201cI have to use the bathroom now.\u201d\u00a0 <\/span>She beelines past security dressed in all black wearing a Power of Ogun Warrior necklace.\u00a0 <\/span>His pearly whites illuminates as the record restarts on Moodymann\u2019s (Live @ Cutloose 2nd Annual Birthday Party).<\/span><\/p>\n

Osunlade even raises his camera phone to film the spectacle on Tortured Soul\u2019s \u201cI Might Do Something Wrong<\/a>.\u201d\u00a0 <\/span>His Lonely Mix, released many moons ago sounds fresh as ever.\u00a0 <\/span>The voice of ancestral once stated he aimed to make music that would be legendary after his transition from this life.\u00a0 <\/span>Wrong.\u00a0 <\/span>Osunlade gets his flowers.\u00a0 <\/span>Literally, Elder International Party Man hands Osunlade flowers across the DJ platform.\u00a0 <\/span>The living legend\u2019s impactful legacy is proclaimed today.<\/span><\/p>\n

At his Birthday soiree, the Saint Louis native soundtracks a near catalog of twenty plus hits-remixes, exclusives and goodies.\u00a0 <\/span>For those gathered, this is a celebration of community and culture.\u00a0 <\/span>For you this becomes a whirlwind of song and dance through space and time.\u00a0 <\/span>You get down to Osunlade\u2019s \u201cBlackman\u201d and Frank-I\u2019s \u201cLet The Record Play<\/a>\u201d released in 2005.\u00a0 <\/span>Incomes \u201cCantos a Ochun Et Oya<\/a>\u201d and Jazztronik\u2019s \u201cDentro Mi Alma\u201d (Yoruba Soul Remix) that keeps your feet shuffling over each other.\u00a0 <\/span>Meanwhile, Australia\u2019s Mike Steva\u2019s \u201cOro<\/a>\u201d brings the Baltic brass to cheers of stomps and shouts as Souldynamic\u2019s \u201cHostile Land<\/a>\u201d keeps you in motion for Git featuring Big Brooklyn Red\u2019s \u201cHigher<\/a>\u201d (Afefe Iku Remix) as the Yoruba Recordings\u2019 Coflo\u2019s, \u201cThrowbacks<\/a>\u201d (Grapefruit La Croix) catapults you forward into \u201cThe Black Messiah.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

Define Packard<\/a>.\u00a0 <\/span>A) A luxury automobile formerly produced in Detroit.\u00a0 <\/span>B) A Detroit techno track produced by Tom Flynn released on Planet E that plays next.\u00a0 <\/span>C) All the above.\u00a0 <\/span>Ever notice, as of late, Osunlade plays Charivari consecutive years, signs Detroit music makers, and exhibits art in the Motor City.\u00a0 <\/span>Osunlade hearts Detroit.<\/span><\/p>\n

When the \u201cEnvision<\/a>\u201d artist plays his favorite, Prince\u2019s \u201cControversy,\u201d\u00a0 <\/span>you head for water break part II.\u00a0 <\/span>At the bar, a free water station is all that is missing.\u00a0 <\/span>So you two-step back to the alter on Aquarian Dream\u2019s \u201cLove & Tears.\u201d\u00a0 <\/span>As one of your Osunlade produced favorites, \u201cBlack Woman Cry<\/a>\u201d keeps you jumping in the air for more.\u00a0 <\/span>That more is delivered when playing Moodymann for the third time.\u00a0 <\/span>Black Mahogani<\/a><\/em>\u2019s track seven, \u201cShades of Jae<\/a>\u201d is \u201cthe defining song of many of our dj sets! great album!\u00a0Favorite track: Shades Of Jae.\u201d <\/i>Osunlade posted on Bandcamp.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Hrns\u2019 \u201cTeena\u2019s Cry<\/a>\u201d (David Harness and Tedd Patterson Remix) keeps you bent over, your arms flailing angular.\u00a0 <\/span>Recall, DJ Khalid sampled Osunlade\u2019s \u201cDionne<\/a>.\u201d\u00a0 <\/span>Enough said.\u00a0 <\/span>You punch the air with your fist on \u201cCamera Shy<\/a>\u201d (Justin Imperiale Mix) before \u201cIdiosyncracy<\/a>\u201d makes you want to kick off your white sneakers amongst the abandoned sandals, stilettos and socks hiding in dark corners.<\/span><\/p>\n

Whoa!\u00a0 <\/span>Blinding house lights illuminate\u00a0 <\/span>Donnie\u2019s \u201cOlemc Save Us<\/a>,\u201d the Yoruba Soul Mix is Atlanta\u2019s favorite, g.washington featuring Miriam Makeba\u2019s \u201cWarrior Mbube<\/a>,\u201d Eric Roberson\u2019s \u201cDon’t Change<\/a>\u201d (Original), and Vivian Green\u2019s \u201cEmotional Rollercoaster<\/a>\u201d (Yoruba Soul) are diamonds sparkling in celestial brilliance.<\/span><\/p>\n

Surprise!\u00a0 <\/span>Joining the frontman on stage is his best friend, Nadirah Shakoor.\u00a0 <\/span>The former Jimmy Buffet Coral Reefer Band vocalist belts her proudest anthem \u201cPride<\/a>.\u201d And everyone left standing is still yelling.\u00a0 <\/span>Even the lone white guy swaying can\u2019t manage to pull away from the ancestral energy.\u00a0 <\/span>This is the power of a That Gyrl Inc party.\u00a0 <\/span>You know you are going to eat real good.<\/span><\/p>\n

Oh, \u201chappy birthday Osunlade. Happy birthday to you.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

wrds: aj dance<\/p>\n

vsl: aj art (top)<\/p>\n

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Lucky I\u2019m Black Osunlade Gets His Flowers \u201cHappy birthday to you.\u201d A chorus sings across the expanse of fluorescent and exchange.\u00a0 Thereafter, an elder directs those gathered to belt the livelier soul-stirring rendition of Stevie Wonder\u2019s \u201cHappy Birthday.\u201d \u201cPeople always forget the lyrics to the second verse.\u201d Everyone\u2019s Favorite Photographer mentions over the growing serenade.\u201d\u00a0 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