I haven't written a review in a long while but today I decide to check out Confluence Project an extended play curated by the guys over at Mainland Block Party.
The Confluence Project in my understanding is sort of like a mash-up and remake of beautiful songs by really talented artistes, these artistes come into the studio and have to record/perform bits of their songs over a brand new Beat.
My interest was piqued when I came across the Terry apala x Ladi Poe mashup. I knew I needed to see if other songs were just as good. And so began my journey into this One listen review of the Confluence project.
The first track on the project Paloma's mind games featuring Alpha P and Buju immediately has me thinking "Yo, I wish this was an Alpha P x Rema mash-up" you know considering their history. This is like a trap reimagination of Buju Mind Games and Alpha P Paloma, and while I know I'm beginning to sound insatiable I lowkey wish this had a gbedu feel instead, just like the originals. That said the production is mad!!! you know it's Sess the problem kid and he don't play.
The next track features Boj and fave I'm not sure I'm familiar with these songs. Well at least the Boj one, I know this one by fave, I like the EDM feel of this production, but sadly it's my only favourite thing about this track.
Track three features the same set of acts as track two, hmm on first listen me no like this one o. But yeah it's something that can surely grow on me, it has that feel.
Oh, beautiful nostalgia 😍😍, the 5&6 intro has me falling in love, sorry Joeboy, I'm here for Naeto. Pretty mash-up, I stayed dancing all thru. At exactly 2:09 I switch sides cos Joeboy is mesmerising me with that "whatchu wanna do girl" line then goes on to add some sweet adlibs, then sings Naeto's 5&6 chorus...Damn boy voice sweet die.
Whoever curated this project found genius when he thought to include Naeto songs on this, Joeboy is singing Faaji a song I didn't like on its original release, but with this beat omoh E Soak!!! Adey still has my respect since juice, baba dey create
Terry Apala's Voice 😍, if I be woman I for dey shout my ovaries by now. The synergy between LadiPoe and Terry is something that I feel these two should take into the studio to make beautiful new music. They just seem like very good fits.
Champagne Already? Y'all already know how I feel about this collaboration. Enjoy and burst some moves like I don dey run am for here.
In retrospect, I regret not talking about how much I love the champagne already song on the actual review so this is me just writing a long note that doesn't actually mean anything just to somehow make up for that.
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Ba nbe reviews .. 👏
I'm interested. Very interested. A strange project