Palm Wine Beats Live @ Total Refreshment Centre

  • Daniel Oduntan
  • Amar Patel

In 2015 I started a sound archive project called Lo-Fi Odysseys, I produced two volumes of a playlist series called Palm Wine Beats, a documentary mixtape that explored my Nigerian audio heritage. A year later it was turned into a 12 hour exhibition of African creativity and the diaspora. Creative Direction/Curation, Daniel Oduntan Producer/Host, Amar Patel Press/Marketing, Diva Muanza Image Credit: Eddie Otchere, contact sheet. NTS, The Do!! You!!! Breakfast Show w/ Charlie Bones. Film and stills, Dan Fontanelli. Production: – Palm Wine Beat house band (Bill Parks, MeaKoom, Chongo, Ruth Kennington, Dan Whelan, Segun Akano, Uché Gabriel Akujobi), Lo-Fi Odysseys – Double shout out to Segun Akano for handling the juju music workshop like a don – Blackman Akeeb Kareem OFFICIAL FAN PAGE for the music, encores and wisdom – We Need To Talk About: for holding down the afternoon broadcast – Panellists (Quinton Scott Strut Records, Kwaku British Black Music, Etienne Joseph @ Decolonising the Archive, Melissa Frame We Need To Talk About:, Bekke Popoola Black British Girlhood and Caleb Femi SXWKS) – Duncan Brooker, Richmond Kessie and Volta45 for pulling out some serious selections – Anifa and crew @ Nifty's for the tasty food – Lexus Blondin @ Total Refreshment Centre for believing and seeing the potential – anyone that directly supported us (especially Charlie Bones The Do!!You!!! Show, Ransom Note, Studio Fedora, Dynamic Africa, TRUEAfrica, Africa Express and The British Blacklist)

Eddie Otchere, contact sheet
OkayAfrica - Vintage Nigerian-Inspired 'Palm Wine' Beat Tapes From Lo-Fi Odysseys
https://www.okayafrica.com/vintage-nigerian-palm-wine-beat-tapes-lo-fi-odysseys/
We Need to Talk About presented a live broadcast with interviews at the Total Refreshment Centre. Segun Akano ran a family-friendly juju percussion workshop. A cross-generational panel (featuring Strut Records’Quinton Scott, Black British Girlhood’s Bekke Popoola and Kwaku from Black British Music) discussed how Africa could advance through its rich cultural archive.
Lo-Fi Odysseys – PWB VOL 1 | Act 7: Fela's Lament ft Yankari
An international house band transposed and reconfigured songs by featured artists such as Chief Ebenezer Obey, Sir Shina Peters, William Onyeabor and Sylvia St James – in record time too. Their rousing set was capped off by an appearance from Nigerian legend Blackman Akeeb Kareem, his was a particularly poignant event because of the cultural exchange happening. As a new generation becomes more curious about their heritage, moments like this allow individuals to confront and challenge a monolithic narrative and clichés about race.
From The Root To The Fruit: When Will Africa Profit From Its Rich Cultural Archive?
Media coverage Dynamic Africa OkayAfrica Jusi I Love The British Blacklist The Ransom Note True Africa We Need to Talk About

Sounds PALM WINE BEATS VOL 1 PALM WINE BEATS VOL 2 BOILER ROOM - Lo-Fi Odysseys Chief Commander Ebenezer Obey - Baba Lo Ran Mi Wa [Lo-Fi Odysseys re-touch] Alhaja Queen Salawa Abeni And Her Waka Modernisers – Gentle Lady [Lo-Fi Odysseys re-touch]