Asa
A Story teller and her strings
BY MARIAM UNAWU
Imagine being pulled into a world of stories just by increasing the volume on your music listening device and relaxing with a glass of red wine. That ' s the one thing we ' ve come to love about the ever delectable ÀSA. With a voice so sonorous and the ability to melt the hardest of hearts she has overtime become African Queen of soul.
Bukola Elemide popularly know as Asa( which means Hawk by the way) is an international African Artist signed to Native Records in France, Paris where she currently resides, she has an array of music which has been performed both nationally and internationally, and on some of the biggest internationally televised music contest shows in the country. She uniquely combines her native dialect, Yoruba and English even though she doesn ' t speak so well.
The Queen of African soul released her last album " Bed Of Stone " in 2014 and she, as always, didn ' t give us a hard time in transforming " we " the listeners into characters prancing in a lifetime of stories embedded in 4:05 mins of music sounds and the artistry of telling magnificent stories.
Her favorite instrument been the Acoustic guitar has created most of the sounds we ' ve come to love as she strums away joyfully in the plethora of vibrations when she ' s recording in the studio, from the famous sounds of a slow-fast paced " Jailer " to the very edgy and witty lyrics of " Éye Adaba ".
From describing her mother ' s unending beauty and hardwork in " Beautiful " to musically Bashing the Guy under the earth in " Satan Be Gone ",
In calling out a fri-nemy in " Dead again " to moving on from the hurt in her heart wrenching track " Moving on ". String by string she encapsulates it all. What else captures good music like a story that the mind eye can see?!
10 times out of 10 ÀSA has successfully drawn the world with every lyric and sound and string and we can ' t wait for her next story telling journey.
44 | NOV. 2017