Celestia Nomad – Bata Drums in the Lagos Server Hall (Yoruba × Drum and Bass)

The bata drums enter at the polyrhythmic conversation that Yoruba master drummers have been holding since the Oyo empire codified the language of the talking drum, three drums of different sizes speaking three different lines that interlock into one continuous sentence about the orisa, and the drum and bass break that arrives beneath them locks into the bata cycle with the easy understanding that the genre was studying these rhythms long before it knew it. A wordless female call rises in the chorus position with the praise-singing tradition of the Yoruba apala vocal, and the reese bass growls beneath in a single sustained tone that the Lagos club producers have been refining for the last fifteen years. The server hall is the new Microsoft data centre on the Lagos lagoon, and the master drummer's grandson works there as a network engineer. #CelestiaNomad #Yoruba #DrumAndBass #BataDrums #Lagos