{"id":1672,"date":"2017-01-21T09:22:12","date_gmt":"2017-01-21T09:22:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.poetsinnigeria.org.ng\/?p=1672"},"modified":"2017-01-23T17:46:59","modified_gmt":"2017-01-23T17:46:59","slug":"spoken-word-album-review","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.poetsinnigeria.org.ng\/index.php\/spoken-word-album-review\/","title":{"rendered":"SPOKEN WORD ALBUM REVIEW"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<!-- WP QUADS Content Ad Plugin v. 1.7.8 -->\n<div class=\"quads-location quads-ad1\" id=\"quads-ad1\" style=\"float:none;margin:0px;\">\n\n <!-- WP QUADS - Quick AdSense Reloaded v.1.7.8 Content AdSense async --> \n\n<script async data-cfasync=\"false\" src=\"\/\/pagead2.googlesyndication.com\/pagead\/js\/adsbygoogle.js\"><\/script><script type=\"text\/javascript\" data-cfasync=\"false\">\nvar quads_screen_width = document.body.clientWidth;\nif ( quads_screen_width >= 1140 ) {\r\n\/* desktop monitors *\/\r\ndocument.write('<ins class=\"adsbygoogle\" 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[]).push({});\r\n}<\/script>\n\n <!-- end WP QUADS --> \n\n\n<\/div>\n<p><strong>SPOKEN WORD ALBUM REVIEW<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/i2.wp.com\/www.poetsinnigeria.org.ng\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/14289921_1156033924435702_4499386232871036859_o-1.jpg\"><img data-attachment-id=\"1674\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/www.poetsinnigeria.org.ng\/index.php\/spoken-word-album-review\/14289921_1156033924435702_4499386232871036859_o-2\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/i2.wp.com\/www.poetsinnigeria.org.ng\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/14289921_1156033924435702_4499386232871036859_o-1.jpg?fit=1163%2C1239&amp;ssl=1\" data-orig-size=\"1163,1239\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" 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Album<\/strong>: I AM<\/p>\n<p><strong>Spoken Word Artist<\/strong>: Andrew Patience<\/p>\n<p><strong>Producer<\/strong>: Oluwadrumma<\/p>\n<p><strong>Location<\/strong>: Jos, Nigeria,<\/p>\n<p><strong>Year of Publication<\/strong>: 2016<\/p>\n<p><strong>No of Tracks: <\/strong>14<\/p>\n<p><strong>Duration<\/strong>: 55 minutes.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Reviewer<\/strong>: Adebote Seyifunmi (Lagos, Nigeria)<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>The spoken word poetry album, <strong><em>I AM<\/em><\/strong> should be of great interest to mind curious about Africa, her culture and arts. Those interested in unravelling life\u2019s mystery would also be caught in a similar web. Personally, little is known of Andrew Patience, I wasn\u2019t even \u2018fortunate\u2019 to meet her at the Abuja Literary Society slam, December 2016 event where I got the album from. However, without doubt, I have come to know an unselfish AP, one that shares my passion for radio broadcast. Patience has an impressionable media exposure which gifts her ease of persuasive communication (in clear English infused with Hausa and Yoruba, as seen in I AM). Her consciousness about societal issues reflects in her thoughts about integrity, security, relationship, education, children and politics.<\/p>\n<!-- WP QUADS Content Ad Plugin v. 1.7.8 -->\n<div class=\"quads-location quads-ad2\" id=\"quads-ad2\" style=\"float:none;margin:0px;\">\n<script async src=\"\/\/pagead2.googlesyndication.com\/pagead\/js\/adsbygoogle.js\"><\/script>\r\n<script>\r\n  (adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({\r\n    google_ad_client: \"ca-pub-5983616716487778\",\r\n    enable_page_level_ads: true\r\n  });\r\n<\/script>\n<\/div>\n\n<p><strong><em>I AM<\/em><\/strong> is the result of Andrew Patience\u2019s rural African background, hard work through the years and deep thinking creativity. The album greets the listener with her briefest track, as AP in 1 minute gives tribute to \u201cAnnabel\u201d, her mother, I suppose. The next is a blunt poem where a brave AP talks, no fulminate about \u201cAfrica\u2019s Rape\u201d. Similarly, track 3 reflects on the melancholy in AP as she bids <strong><em>Depression Goodbye<\/em><\/strong> or vice versa. I don\u2019t know why I think, \u201cI AM\u201d (I mean the tenth track, not the album) could have more; I also frown at the smoothness of Yetunde\u2019s opening verse in track 5 \u2013 \u201c<em>Dear Son<\/em>\u201d. She murdered the Yoruba language but the heart-cutting words and advice of AP to her unborn son creates a place to forgive that goof.<\/p>\n<p>Some, like me, may not relate well with track 6 \u2013 \u201cMaya Gave\u201d, track 7 \u2013 \u201cWithout Words\u201d, track 12 \u201cTales of Love\u201d and track 13 \u2013 \u201cWho Murdered Me?\u201d (Hopefully, some other spoken word critics can clearly critique this). Track 11, \u201cGod?\u201d to me, is more than just an argument, more than a conversation, it is mysterious and I AM not judging, same with the last track \u2013 \u201cThe (Honest) Conversation\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>The clarity of words balanced with professional use of instruments and effects leaves us &#8216;I AM&#8217; \u2013 loaded, universal, deep and instructive with artistic use of verses in English, Yoruba and Hausa languages (and Igbo- just to be balanced). My preference in proper order, as a youth advocate, Track 9 &#8211; &#8220;Tomorrow Never Came&#8221; and track 8 \u201cThis Poem\u201d as a patriot, one with sour taste for African literature.<\/p>\n<p>Andrew Patience must have sought to first entertain her listener, but she carefully places that beside her motive of correcting social issues, properly informing and unburdening not only her mind, but that of a thousand others too. I AM is an unselfish album that partners with nine other creatives, videlicet; Mfon Abigail, Yetunde, Malvina, Edge Globador, NorthPriest, Decipher, Anchorman. Just like AP, I AM not done yet! You shouldn&#8217;t too, let&#8217;s be who we are meant to be, let\u2019s be our real versions of I AM.<\/p>\n<p><strong><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">Reviewer<br \/>\n<\/span><\/strong><strong>Adebote Oluwaseyifunmi<\/strong>, born 20<sup>th<\/sup>\u00a0September in Lagos, Nigeria, is\u00a0a youth advocate with national impact and a budding broadcast icon. He has\u00a0presented &amp; produced programs on Coal City 92.9 FM, Enugu,\u00a0Solid 100.9 FM, Enugu,\u00a0Rockcity 101.9 FM,\u00a0Abeokuta\u00a0and\u00a0Radio Continental, Lagos. He has written to some of Nigeria\u2019s most respected newspapers as a campus journalist especially; The Nations, Tribune, National Mirror, Punch, Hallmark Newspaper, Vanguard and News-Direct newspapers as well as online magazines across three continents<\/p>\n<p><strong>\u00a0<\/strong>\n<!-- WP QUADS Content Ad Plugin v. 1.7.8 -->\n<div class=\"quads-location quads-ad3\" id=\"quads-ad3\" style=\"float:none;margin:0px;\">\n<script async src=\"\/\/pagead2.googlesyndication.com\/pagead\/js\/adsbygoogle.js\"><\/script>\r\n<script>\r\n  (adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({\r\n    google_ad_client: \"ca-pub-5983616716487778\",\r\n    enable_page_level_ads: true\r\n  });\r\n<\/script>\n<\/div>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>SPOKEN WORD ALBUM REVIEW Spoken Word Album: I AM Spoken Word Artist: Andrew Patience Producer: Oluwadrumma Location: Jos, Nigeria, Year of Publication: 2016 No of&hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":1674,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[112],"tags":[326,313,324,325,97],"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":1654,"url":"https:\/\/www.poetsinnigeria.org.ng\/index.php\/spoken-waves-issue-6\/","url_meta":{"origin":1672,"position":0},"title":"SPOKEN WAVES (ISSUE 6)","date":"January 21, 2017","format":false,"excerpt":"SPOKEN WAVES (ISSUE 6) ANDREW PATIENCE Can we meet you? 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