Download Song Boo Of The Booless By Chike
Annegret Mclean
Chike released a six-track mixtape named Dance of the Booless Volume 1 as a sequel to Boo of the Booless. It was described as a hybrid of Electronic Dance Music (EDM) and experimental Afro-Pop/RnB and contained remixes of songs from Boo of the Booless.[7]
"Soldier" is an emotional rollercoaster that zooms in on a tale so familiar yet fresh. Like every mother in such a story would, Chike's voice bears the painful tone of the inevitable. Piano-led, the song plays to the melancholy of its theme, even as Chike's songwriting is simple and evoking. "If they lose you, they only lost one soldier/ but if I lose you, I lost my whole damn world," he sings. In a plea, the mother dares by urging the Soldier to refuse war. Perhaps we should all dare, Chike admonishes. But more than just its obvious beauty as a song, "Soldier" works because Nigeria, like many African countries, is explicitly kept safe by the efforts of soldiers who brave front lines and Boko Haram bombs. Hence, there's this conflict in Chike's song. If we wear our empathic skins who'll make sure they don't roast? Conceptualization and precise songwriting provide the extra to Chike's songs, as evidenced in BOTB.
The theme of love, obviously the driving force of the album, is reflected through different spectrums. On "Amen," "Nakupenda" and "Forever," everything that is beautiful about love is collected and amplified by song and production. On the latter duo, Ric Hassani and M.I Abaga make for excellent guest features, the veteran rapper literally delivering an epic verse that spans decades and oozes skill and deliberation. The five-song run which begins with "Insecure" and ends with "Running" finds Chike building a subconcept upon a rocky relationship, as his persona goes through the jealous phase (this directly affects the thing), and eventually, in novelistic fashion, "Out of Love" puts things in perspective: she's no longer in it, she's fallen out of love. "Running" however seems to be the birth of another relationship, and the sense of reinvigoration is on display here from the start. (Chike first lines are "anybody wey wan fight you/ make them come they already know/ I'll be right beside you/ like the wall of Jericho.")
In contemporary Nigerian music, love has become the topic most artists sing about. It's always been, actually; but what excites in 2020 is the newer artists who are moving away from the hedonistic qualities of love and embracing the purely romantic, and often sentimental. Artists like Joeboy and Fireboy DML especially, are erasing the macho male narrative, the unflinching, and the elegant. The breakout songs of both artists played to this. Chike, with his debut album, has placed himself in that conversation. (although for now, not to the bulk of Nigerian listeners. Read the mainstream) Already, a comparison has been drawn between Boo of the Booless and Laughter, Tears and Goosebumps. I'll say this: it's instantly recognizable that the minimalism of Chike's album works in the flawless execution of its concept. And while that may not be the same were the artiste making the album for a larger audience, BOTB doesn't pass itself as a creation of improvisation. Although they fairly stretch the overall sound of the album, the miracle of Chike's album is that songs like "Amen" and "Watching Over Me" could, in time, given the right promotion and all, become anthems. And by virtue of this, be played in very different settings to the one in which the album was made: a local Pentecostal church, a market, at a wedding, etc.
Singer, song writer and actor, Chike-Ezekpeazu Osebuka (Born 28th of January, 1993) who was a runner up in music reality shows- MTN Project Fame and The Voice Nigeria in 2015 and 2016 respectively. There were a lot of controversies following the end of The Voice season 1. Many people that followed the show felt Chike was robbed after he emerged runner-up behind Arese. Well, Chike just released his first body of work after that escapade, and we can for sure say he is here to stay.
There's no emotional mood board, for me during that time I made this album I made sure that for every strong emotion I felt, I penned it down. I penned it down knowing that I would later pull from it at some point. So for every emotion, I felt I penned it down and I waited to be able to express it in a song. Was it the emotion of happiness, was it sadness, was it loss, was it love? I put all of it down and let it flow. I always also check the angle of the listener because I know my target audience and the kind of music that appeals to them. So I always try to make sure that even while I'm expressing myself, I'm able to communicate with the listener, that's always the primary goal for me
The oldest song on the album is actually four years old. That should be "Zamo." At some point early this year my team and I just concluded I had to go into some kind of camping mode to make sure I wrap up the album. Which is what I did in order to be able to meet the date.