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THE DURBAN DIARY | ThePingOfPong
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Pieces on Film, Prose and Music by a Nigerian. DAY 1: SOCKETS AND SPEECHES. The Royal South African Airways airplane touched down and immediately the trouble of getting to the Murtala Mohammed International Airport at Ikeja on time my headache some 6 hours before disappeared. Supplanting such distinctly Lagosian worries as traffic en route airport was how to get to the hotel. The email said some guys would be wearing. Durban International Film Festival. T-shirts at a desk. Look left, look right. By the t...
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That the Bed May Creak Louder: On Toni Kan’s Nights of the Creaking Bed | ThePingOfPong
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Pieces on Film, Prose and Music by a Nigerian. That the Bed May Creak Louder: On Toni Kan’s Nights of the Creaking Bed. In art circles, the argument comes up now and again about which influences the other: art or life. Both sides are compelling hence, it is best to assume the argument would mostprobably outlive us or would at least reincarnate in another form. Like many basic questions, there are no easy answers. Briefly, the author has worked in Hints. The book opens with the eponymous story, and the st...
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IN PRAISE OF BABY JOWO REMIX | ThePingOfPong
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Pieces on Film, Prose and Music by a Nigerian. IN PRAISE OF BABY JOWO REMIX. Popular old songs are fragile keepsakes. And remaking a song that has become a classic that elusive, hard to define label is a delicate act. A little tampering on either side of time’s trajectory threatens the balance of beauty, and of symphony: the producer aiming to honour the past without modification courts indifference from the public who may respond with ‘why bother? It is this balance that makes the new remix of. This tim...
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March | 2014 | ThePingOfPong
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Pieces on Film, Prose and Music by a Nigerian. Month: March, 2014. March 25, 2014. FLIGHTS OF FANCY: A REVIEW OF LAST FLIGHT TO ABUJA. The director aiming to film real life events faces an arduous task, which gets harder when the events are recent history. One part of the problem is convincing the audience this is what transpired; another is particularly apparent when the event is tragic: the audience knows the end, there can be no suspense. It is hard to tell if Obi Emelonye, the director of. IS KENNETH...
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July | 2014 | ThePingOfPong
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Pieces on Film, Prose and Music by a Nigerian. Month: July, 2014. July 6, 2014. ALBUM REVIEW: BANKY, WIZKID and CO’S EMPIRE MATES STATE OF MIND. STATE OF THE INDUSTRY. It is fitting that the first voice you hear on Banky W’s EME compilation album,. Empire Mates State of Mind. He is one-fifth of the group not that you will know from listening to the album. On an album comprising nineteen songs and three skits, the man is on eleven tracks; three of these are solos. That tells a story: EME’s. These producer...
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ALBUM REVIEW: MI RETURNS AS THE CHAIRMAN | ThePingOfPong
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Pieces on Film, Prose and Music by a Nigerian. ALBUM REVIEW: MI RETURNS AS THE CHAIRMAN. One evening early October, I spent a few hours with MI. Africa’s rapper #1 as he called himself on his sophomore played his then unreleased album for the benefit of outsiders for perhaps the first time. Clad in ripped jeans and an X on white Rorschach patterned t-shirt, the rapper known by his high school teacher as Jude Abaga described how much of a collaborative effort. Is a remarkable piece of crowd pleasing music...
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RAPID REVIEWS: WAJE’S WORDS AREN’T JUST ENOUGH | ThePingOfPong
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Pieces on Film, Prose and Music by a Nigerian. RAPID REVIEWS: WAJE’S WORDS AREN’T JUST ENOUGH. Waje’s new album,. Words Aren’t Just Enough. Is a contender for the 2013 album of the year. At a time when artists are throwing everything into LPs in a bid to find out what sticks to the audience’s ears, she has made an album catering to her major strength her big voice. Words Aren’t Just Enough. The highs come early: by the third track, the mellow, unhurried, excellent. July 5, 2014. Words aren't just enough.
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COMMENTS ON HOLLYWOOD: RE: AMADEUS AND LIBERAL ARTS | ThePingOfPong
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Pieces on Film, Prose and Music by a Nigerian. COMMENTS ON HOLLYWOOD: RE: AMADEUS AND LIBERAL ARTS. At the end of Amadeus I sat still in my chair, dumbfounded. I asked myself, what is the appropriate length of time for existential meditation? How long are we allowed to contemplate the meaning of life? How can a film possibly examine the gamut of humanity in ninety minutes? 8230; Then there is Amadeus. Genius is the film’s primary subject. What does it mean to desire genius, to possess genius, to beho...
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RAPID REVIEWS: MAY D’S CHAPTER ONE | ThePingOfPong
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Pieces on Film, Prose and Music by a Nigerian. RAPID REVIEWS: MAY D’S CHAPTER ONE. The Song is the Thing. Sometimes the best pop music is frivolous fun, a song, an album of danceable melodies without much thought given to lyrics. The trick is not to try too hard: can the artist make the thoughtless effortless? For Mr MayD, the answer is a resounding yes. Song after song on Chapter One is packed with sweet and senseless singing. The song is the thing. July 6, 2014. July 6, 2014 at 2:33 pm. From the first ...
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Timi’s Beautiful Noise: Never Late Is Better | ThePingOfPong
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Pieces on Film, Prose and Music by a Nigerian. Timi’s Beautiful Noise: Never Late Is Better. Four years is a long time. The album starts properly with the previously released. Which is one of four previously released songs on this collection of eleven tracks (the. Makes it a dozen). Ordinarily that should submerge this album in the quicksand of familiarity. That the album rises above this is attributable to two standout components: Timi’s voice and Cobhams Asuquo’s production. He strips his music allowin...