MUSIC REVIEW: THE JOIE DE VIVRE IN BANKU BY TEEDIZ

Babatunde Alaran

This is an entertaining song you need to listen too. It has gyration that makes it to be pristine. Also, it has an African genre from it intro which paradoxically is arcane. Teediz describes Banku to be metaphor or euphemism because the word means something else to every listener. Even the artiste said ‘’ Banku na Banku ‘’ during my interview with him recently.

This artiste has a stellar style that encapsulates his audience. When you listen to his song you will know he has something tangible to offer this pop culture coterie. He has a melodic voice because when you listen to Banku, you will dance. Teediz flukes with this Banku song.

His response is considerably redefining his music as an eclectic philosophy. While his rhythm gives classification to what is Banku? To me, Banku means ecstasy with an endearing fun. It could be a congenial gaiety because Teediz gave a receptive meaning with his melody. Music is the soul of every society. It makes everyone to be grandee to the gratuitous lyrics; particualrly like Banku.

I listen to this song, I find it captivating because it is somewhat fictitious and could make you guffaw. This artiste has an emblematic choice for language and it is yet to stay in the Nigerian music industry.

He also knows how to improvise new colloquialism to any conversation. Music is gusty to him. Thus, his style is different from his peers because he infuses traditional sound in his music often. Though, It was during my interview with him I understood the hackneyed intuition of Banku to be fun or relaxation.

If you like to listen to Afrocentric music, this Banku song is reinvigorating to the soul. It is primal. It makes a conceit to local slang with the use of Yoruba. Hence, his style, chorus, and lyrics are remarkably profound most especially to this song that is like a dialectic idea to the listener.

I asked myself: what is Banku? I think Banku is an idiom that is about culture on how we live. It brings dynamism to life and the idyll way we have fun about retrospection. Life can be meaningful if we understand the illusion to what makes Banku becomes Banku. Truly, this songwriter has given us a puzzle to answer. Banku could mean we are referencing something to live on.

If there’s no music there will be boredom with life’s nuances. It is music that keeps us. Without music, everything will be immobile. But music becomes an incipient with this song like Banku. This song makes you high with no incivility because everybody can relate and genuinely inject into this style. Lastly, Banku is a joie de vivre to Teediz’s inspiration.

You can download Banku on Audiomack