Album lore

M.A.N.I.F.E.S.T.O by WILLOM TIGHT, released on Too Lost in 2016, assembles fourteen tracks that traverse afrobeats, azonto, hiplife, and alté alongside nods to Tamil pop. The album opens with "B.A.B.A {Build A Better Africa} intro," setting a thematic tone that recurs in the eponymous closing track, framing the record within a continental dialogue. Tracks like "Chiwororo" and "Ndapera {Hey wena}" pair rhythmic insistence with melodic motifs typical of West African popular music, while the interjection of "Iko Iko" gestures toward diasporic influences.Though modest in its digital footprint—garnering just over a hundred scrobbles on Last.fm—M.A.N.I.F.E.S.T.O offers a nuanced artifact from the mid-2010s African music milieu. The record’s synthesis of indigenous styles with global pop currents situates WILLOM TIGHT within a lineage attentive to both local vernacular and broader diasporic resonances, making it a worthwhile addition for crate-diggers seeking the folds between established genres and emergent sounds.

Album lore

M.A.N.I.F.E.S.T.O by WILLOM TIGHT, released on Too Lost in 2016, assembles fourteen tracks that traverse afrobeats, azonto, hiplife, and alté alongside nods to Tamil pop. The album opens with "B.A.B.A {Build A Better Africa} intro," setting a thematic tone that recurs in the eponymous closing track, framing the record within a continental dialogue. Tracks like "Chiwororo" and "Ndapera {Hey wena}" pair rhythmic insistence with melodic motifs typical of West African popular music, while the interjection of "Iko Iko" gestures toward diasporic influences.Though modest in its digital footprint—garnering just over a hundred scrobbles on Last.fm—M.A.N.I.F.E.S.T.O offers a nuanced artifact from the mid-2010s African music milieu. The record’s synthesis of indigenous styles with global pop currents situates WILLOM TIGHT within a lineage attentive to both local vernacular and broader diasporic resonances, making it a worthwhile addition for crate-diggers seeking the folds between established genres and emergent sounds.