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6°30’33​.​372”N 3°22’0​.​66”E

Released

If you paste the album’s title into Google maps you’ll be taken to Ojuelegba, the infamously busy Lagos intersection and bus station that was once the site of a shrine to Eshu, the Yoruba god of dance and confusion. Ogboh hyper focuses on this location, capturing the sounds of everyday life in vivid detail. His field recordings — snippets of conversation, the repetitive calls of the bus conductors, the shrill drone of car horns, the cries of street vendors and the hum of car and minibus motors — convey the feeling of chaos, but set within Ogboh’s ambient, trancey electronics, they weave a fluid, living map of Ojuelegba. One of the most striking things about this album is how Ogboh combines his very-Berlin experimental approach with the color and vibrancy of this Lagos neighborhood, making it feel not like two worlds colliding, but like a cohesive, immersive sonic universe. 

Megan Iacobini de Fazio

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