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Isolate
B.Coast Entertainment (2011)
It is nothing short of torture listening to
Isolate’s debut album, ‘The Secret (ARA Fada Vol 1)’. After hearing him on a
Dagrin track, one will expect more from this budding artist on his debut album,
but it turned out a big disappointment overall. ‘The Secret (ARA Fada vol 1)’
is a musical ranting laid over 17 tracks with only two stand out tracks,
‘Tribute to Dagrin’ and ‘Cause Gbege’ which featured Chuddy K and Durella.
Isolate threw out all sense of creativity and
took the safe path of churning out songs that cannot be singled out from the
myriad of monotonic commercial bound songs. From the first track on the album,
‘Todayz Play’, one is taken on a musical journey of some sort as the musician
tries to put Naija flavored music to different sounds including Techno, Hip-Hop
and Blues. He also spends most of the time on the album trying to sound like
the ‘Gbamu Gbamu’ crooner, 9ice. His music takes themes that deal with partying
like in ‘Party Avenue’, Celebration of motherhood in ‘Iyami’, his march to
success in ‘My turn’ and love, as in ‘Cause Gbege’. He insults the
sensibilities of music lovers as he turns Eddy Grant’s hit ‘Electric Avenue’
into his dryly done ‘Party Avenue’ (Eddy Grant should sue).
His music puts forth a high amount of street
slangs that lovers of this trend will love him to the bone especially with
songs like ‘Gbas Gbos’ and ‘Shey you know’. He obviously puts his heart and
soul into ‘Tribute to Dagrin’ to create a heartfelt rendition in memory of one
of the best Yoruba rappers.
Verdict
None of the lyrics from this album is quoted in
this review, because there is actually nothing memorable that is particularly
unique on the album. Isolate makes good collaborations with other musicians,
and one will have expected more from him on his debut, he however decided to
follow a road well travelled, increasing the number of same sounding commercial
songs that eventually get forgotten. It is important that he goes back to the
drawing board so that his sophomore might bring out his creativity that just
showed in flashes on ‘The Secret (ARA Fada vol 1)’.
