Me I go dance, I go dance with my sweetie o (x3)
Fuji Garbage, Ijokan tà motu gbe dode, odun o rorun lati jo......."
Ladies and Gentlemen,
Old and Young ones.
Wanna make sure you rise up and dance to Fuji garbage.
I sing, you dance.
Very good to dance for elders and young ones.
For ladies and gent, responsible and reliable.
Especially for students who knows how to dig it.
For maximum enjoyment, Wanna make sure you rise up and dance to people's sound,
the new and current music, no more no less, just dance to Fuji Garbage...."
Always every morning, this lyrical excerpt from a popular Fuji artiste, Late Alh. Dr. Sikiru Ayinde Barrister, keeps echoing to my ears from some set of sounds, coming out from my father's old fashioned Honda car; as we rush to school to acquire more knowledge in my secondary education, mostly, on daily basis.
Just like my father is addicted, I am also addicted to the fact that my head couldn't go off digesting the lyrics of this sound, as we; me and my siblings, were been beaten by the ray of scorching Sun, jumping into loopholes which has decorated the long durable asphalt road infrastructure given to us by our darling government.
During this time, I was in my 13, I found it interesting and comfortable to listen to any track coming from the Late Sikiru Ayinde Barrister repeatedly for countless times without getting tired nor bored listening to it.
Although most of these classical music were released almost 20 years before I was born, but the reason myself and few other youths of nowadays still stick to this genre of music is a rhetoric I'm afraid not to answer. Maybe our zeal is just a revelation of how the late music god claimed his songs most especially "Fuji Garbage" is not sidelining we youths but for the general publics.
According to Oga Tunde Busari of Nigeria Tribune in one of his articles, a careful listener would pick some guitar rhythm which Barrister smartly and, intelligently turned either to song, or drum beats mostly in his albums or at his live performances.
The long beat intro of Fuji Garbage is appealing and catchy enough to glue music lovers to the tape waiting to listen to highly sensible word embedded in Alhaji Agba's lyrics.
A particular part of Fuji Garbage that makes me addicted to this track is the area Barry distinctively distinguished between cabbage, baggage and Garbage. The three sound-like words which he used symbolically in this particular musical art.
Barry Wonder explained Baggage as a package and or, belongings one is taking on a journey, Cabbage as a cooking recipe for salad while he explained Garbage to be a useless junk, and disposable materials.
Garbage in this context was used to portray the fact that he is not moved by stones of destructive criticism and defamation being thrown to him by contemporary rivals in the Fuji music industry during this time.
The rich content and melodious tune composed with mixture of English and Yoruba language in this popular series, galvanized me into action of wanting to taste from other sumptuous meal of sounds cooked by this man of colossus status as far as Fuji music is concerned.
It was through my research and comparative analysis of Barry with a close ally and rival I get to know that Alh. Sikiru Ayinde Ololade Barrister is a multi - talented musician that fit into any mode of music required of him.
As he has done remarkably well in the world of entertainment to his fans home and abroad with sounds of "Faaji", he never forgot to pounce on current affairs, sending some hard messages of criticism to political office holder reminding them of their constitutional responsibility and campaign promises to the electorates.
Tracks like "Democracy", "Omo Nigeria", "Current Affairs", "Oro Ibo" (Election blues) released far back as the 1983 General election where he dug deep into political philosophy are relevant tracks, that still serves as library and past questions of which political aspirant of today can always learn from.
Alhaji Agba will continue to remain epitaph in the heart of his fans who loves entertainment with tracks like; "Fuji Extravaganza", "Dimensional Fuji", "Wonders @ 40", "Fuji Exponent", "Fuji Vibration", "Fuji New Waves", and other songs mimes with entertaining slangs.
The Fuji pioneer is not too distracted to sing on bitter facts, words of advice, preaching of good deeds and other moral lessons in his album series like "Pledge to my Parents", "The Truth", "Reality", "Controversy", "Questionaire", "Image", "Fuji Fantasia", "Iwa" to mention few of songs from this category.
Just like a popular saying of the Yorubas, "A tall and straight tree doesn't stays in the bush for a long time", since Barrister's activeness in Ajiwere, and Fuji music in 1965 when he was just 17 years old, He has released over 70 studio albums and countless numbers of live shows from the stable of his personal records, Siky Oluyole located in Isolo, Lagos, Nigeria.
Alhaji Sikiru Ayinde is not only about the energy he put up in his tracks and countless shows, but his music is exclusively about meditating on philosophy, sermon, admonition, warning, education, history, tourism and beautiful use of language, different languages including, of course, Arabic, Latin, French aside English.
My tales on past and current memories of the Fuji Garbage has no full stop of which describing how I feel about other musical product of the great singer will over-flood this tabloid if I continue to analyze.
Sometimes, I wonder if Barrister is releasing those tracks over again from heaven, as it's still selling and been listened to at important occasions, clubs and Faaji houses across Nigeria.
© Kehinde Ayanboade
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