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San Francisco has long supported a healthy world music (and specifically Afro-pop) scene, so it's not a shock that this multiracial band led by two women plays a feisty mixture of Afrobeat, Latin and jazz influences. What may be surprising is that Aphrodesia has the seal of approval from Nigerian performer Femi Kuti (son of pioneering musician Feli [sic] Kuti) with whom they played onstage during a visit to Lagos. If it's been a long time since you've been charmed by an African groove maybe it was Paul Simon's Graceland collaboration with South Africa's Ladysmith Black Mambazo 20 years ago? then Lagos by Bus just might be the ticket. Cary Darling --Ft. Worth Star Telegram
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The Bus, The Bribe, The Shrine: Aphrodesia goes to Afrobeat Mecca on Lagos by Bus. Watching a large van of gesticulating American musicians in hot pursuit of Nigerian soldiers is an uncommon site in the city of Lagos. But the members of San Francisco band Aphrodesia had no choice. The band s new album, Lagos by Bus, (released on Cyberset Music) which uses Afrobeat as a backbone but also draws on Afro-Cuban music, Ghanaian Highlife, and jazz is named after this harrowing experience. Unlike most of the current wave of Afrobeat bands in the U.S., Aphrodesia does not simply pay tribute to Fela Kuti, the father of Afrobeat, but seeks to create original music, with a diverse set of influences. They also have the rare trait of being led by, not one, but two women vocalists, whose hard-hitting songs alternate from chant to melodic song and tantalize the dance floor. And this time they went back to the source. Read more about their journey at the Cyberset website.
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