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About Me



afolabi lipedé | flame


bass guitarist, singer and song writer. his innovative and unique style engages bass harmonics in complex chord structures with an underlying bass rift. from this style has evolved an original music: afunja, meaning african funk and jazz. solid and mesmerizing. his music evokes a feeling of colourful world culture . you can hear this unique style on 'sister and god' and 'irony of peace' instrumentals. flame and mark christopher are currently working on new songs towards afunja debut release on Myspace for 2007am. with special thanks to dele sosimi myspace.com/delesosimi , biola idowu and jason tarver myspace.com/jasontarvermusic .
resident studios london myspace.com/residentstudios .

afunja studio project 2006-07am
we hope to share our music demos with you all, especially musicians who may like to play with the afunja band live in full afro funk tradition - gbedu. afunja is music with room for some groovy solos, raps and a big band wagon. all our songs are composed with both vocals and jazz instrumental versions. please enjoy these instrumental demos as they are, thank you.

church demo mp3 flame: vocals, bass, electric guitar, electronic drums, keyboards and electric piano. 2007am.

CIA demo mp3 flame: bass, 2nd bass (jaré ) electric guitars, electronic drums and vocals. dele sosimi: keyboard afrobeat solo. 2007am.

my brother my friend demo mp3 flame: bass guitar, lead and background vocals, mark christopher: electric guitar, cutty machan: keyboards and chris moore: drums. 1993am.

colours demo mp3 instrumental. flame: bass, electric guitar, electronic drums and keyboards. mark: electric guitars. Jason: demo recording and mixing engineer. august 2006am.

irony of peace demo mp3 irony of peace - [dedicated to nelson mandela] is a song about heaven and will always be available for FREE DOWNLOAD vocals and instrumental current versions. august 2006am. view : lyrics to irony of peace .
flame: bass, electronic drums and electric piano. mark: electric guitars and percussion. dele: keyboards. biola: background vocals and percussion. Jason: demo recording and mixing engineer. august 2006am.

highway ikorodu demo mp3 flame: bass guitar, keyboards, electronic drums, lead and background vocals, biola idowu: background vocals. august 2006am.


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Member Since: 6/8/2006
Band Website: afunja.com
Band Members: afunja music a.lipede flame: bass guitar, lead and background vocals. mark christpher: electric guitar. featuring dele sosimi CIA afrobeat keyboard solo.

mark christopher guitar and music director afunja music.
myspace.com/afunjamark

Influences: issina - martin luther king jnr, mahatma ghandi, marcus garvey, william wilberforce, jimi hendrix, christopher okigbo, bob marley, fela anikulapo-kuti, bolaji babalola ZUT, nina simone, jaco pastorius, barry white and wolfgang mozart. jojona - nelson mandela, muhammed ali, george clinton, sting and joni mitchell.

jojona issina



a.lipede | flame. song writer and composer afunja music.
myspace.com/igiiroko


IDENTITY - dele sosimi's new CD.
delesosimi.org



Type of Label: None

My Blog

afunja gallery archive 1993.

afunja. clarence passage, kings cross, london 1993 archive. ...
Posted by afunja on Wed, 02 Aug 2006 10:05:00 PST

h o u s e

god is the spirit in which nothing can exist independently from, and the heavens where creation cannot exist within anything but itself. god is the mind that created the heavens to experience our spi...
Posted by afunja on Mon, 03 Jul 2006 07:39:00 PST

b i r d © sketch book selection

my wish is to illustrate peace through my comics. BIRD © is a secure flight showing how simple inventions can change our spiritual surroundings, respecting the magic of nature and the gift in the cha...
Posted by afunja on Mon, 03 Jul 2006 09:50:00 PST

t i m e

there is an only one now in reality where the day is placed. it is within this now that all things tangible and intangible must coexist in an exogenous variable of all the dimensions existing to us. ...
Posted by afunja on Sun, 02 Jul 2006 04:40:00 PST