WALE OYEJIDE - ONE DAY, EVERYTHING CHANGED

You never realize how incredibly boring most music is until you hear an album like this. One Day, Everything Changed is not simply songs on wax. It’s a personal, beautiful, musical magic carpet ride, scooping you up from where you stand, and taking you on the kind of adventure normally reserved for the most vivid imaginations.
Musician/producer Wale Oyejide (a.k.a. \"Science Fiction\") weaves a sonic tapestry of funk, soul, Afrobeat, and hip-hop musics to tell his life story. For the first half of the album, you’re in West Africa’s Nigeria, where Oyejide was born. The lyrical tales are told over incredibly fiery Afrobeat rhythms, subtly peppered with programmed beats. \"Riot & Revolt\" is a perfect example, filling listeners\' ears with so much life and energy, you wonder if the ghost of Afrobeat originator Fela Kuti wasn’t in the recording session. Soon after, the title cut mellows things out a bit, giving Detroit’s Lacks an opportunity to verbally match the music’s revolutionary spirit, while sweet background vocals pull you back to West Africa.
Then a transition takes place; the point in the story where Oyejide moves from Africa to America. \"In The City\" is its musical representation, and it’s fucking brilliant. The song begins with slightly Afrobeat rhythms, and melts into modern funk, paving the way for the more contemporary sounding latter half of the album. MF Doom stops by to show some love for the music that is their life on \"This Is Dedicated\" (check the musical references made within), and \"Kaya\" and \"Wasting Time\" blend love and jazz for some modern, atmospheric head nods, showing off Oyejide’s versatile musical abilities.
One Day, Everything Changed is exactly what an album should be-- a beautiful, creative experience unlike most anything else out there. Put away whatever else you were listening to, and live this disc for a long time.