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about african funk and jazz

afolabi lipedé | flame bass guitarist, singer and song writer. innovative and unique style engages bass harmonics in complex chord structures with an underlying bass rift. from this style has evolved an original music: afunja, meaning african funk and jazz. solid and mesmerizing. his music evokes a feeling of colourful world culture .

you can hear this unique style on 'irony of peace'. flame and mark christopher are currently working on new songs towards afunja debut release.

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my wish is to illustrate peace through my comics. BIRD © is a secure flight showing how simple inventions can change our spiritual surroundings, respecting the magic of nature and the gift in the character of all living things. I would like to show through my stories that god will always be a part of our material future. god is nature and in all things, such that science is a creative blessing.

www.myspace.com/alipede
www.myspace.com/afunjamark

afolabi lipede aka flame: bass guitarist, singer and song writer.
mark christopher: electric guitarist and music director for afunja.

download mp3s

001. irony of peace mp3
002. irony of peace mp3 [instrumental]

2007am

C.I.A demo mp3:

AfroBeat - music and arrangements by a.lipedé.
a.lipedé: bass, 2nd bass, vocals, keyboards, electric guitars and electronic drums.
dele sosimi: keyboards solo and midi horns www.delesosimi.org.
afunja igi iroko: studio mix.

church demo mp3:

a.lipedé: bass, vocals, keyboards, electric guitar and electronic drums.
afunja igi iroko: studio mix.

prophet and saint demo mp3:

a.lipedé: bass, vocals, keyboards, electric guitar and electronic drums.
adéfela lipedé: keyboard intro.
afunja igi iroko: studio mix.

2006am

studio demo recordings june 2006am. resident studios ltd. 57a windsor rd, willesden, london NW2 5DT. www.residentstudios.com.

irony of peace demo mp3:

a.lipedé: bass, vocals, keyboards and electronic drums.
mark christopher: electric and acoustic guitars.
dele sosimi: keyboards www.delesosimi.org.
biola idowu: background vocals and percussion.
jason tarver: studio mixing and sound engineer.

colours demo mp3:

a.lipedé: bass, electric guitars, keyboards and electronic drums.
mark christopher: electric guitars.
jason tarver: studio mixing and sound engineer.

highway demo mp3:

a.lipedé: Vocals, bass, keyboards and electronic drums.
biola idowu: background vocals.
jason tarver: studio mixing and sound engineer.

afunja demo mp3:

a.lipedé: bass, electric guitar, keyboards, electric paino and electronic drums.
dele sosimi: keyboards padding.
jason tarver: studio mixing and sound engineer.

free demo mp3:

a.lipedé: bass, vocals, keyboards and electronic drums.
mark christopher: electric guitars.
biola idowu: background vocals.
jason tarver: studio mixing and sound engineer.

biola idowu, dele sosimi and jason tarver.

www.delesosimi.org
www.myspace.com/jasontarvermusic

we hope to share our music demos with you all, especially musicians who would like to play with the afunja band live in full afro funk tradition - gbedu. afunja is music with room for some groovy solos, raps and a big band wagon. all our songs are composed with both vocals and jazz instrumental versions. please enjoy these instrumental demos as they are, thank you.

thank you for visiting the afunja website. if you find this website interesting, please tell your friends about our music! enjoy the groove and look out for the afunja debut.

special thanks and yours spiritually to afunja 1992-1995am:-
cutty marchan: keyboards
chris moore: drums and percussion.
eddie rayner: drums.
just jilly: saxophone.
jason: drums.
obi okigbo: background vocals.
sewanu adadevoh: background vocals.
jumoke: background vocals.
affiong amaku: background vocals.

and also to: karen goodman, lou spence, mrs c.moore, kayode and nicole lipedé, alessandro dati, ruadhrin coushaun, sadia, s.tayler, indrani vanniasingham, olubi babalola, timi shyllon and babatunde lipedé.