Gnonnas Pedro & His Dadjes Band – Roi De L'Agbadja Moderne 2LP post-punk Our Garden Needs Its Flowers

Our Garden Needs Its Flowers was a lush fusion of traditional Ivorian village songs and American and English country and folk-rock music

when punk's faster-and-louder ideals had begun shape-shifting into other ideas

Dre— those producers who were inventing a new language as they worked

Speaking selfishly

and Maria Jenkins (Hollows)

Gnonnas Pedro & His Dadjes Band – Roi De L'Agbadja Moderne 2LP post-punk Our Garden Needs Its FlowersAnalog Africa has the huge honour to present a full and deserved project about Gnonnas Pedro, a musician that changed the trajectory of the label for ever. Hailing from Benin, were "Agbadja" is an ancestral rhythm played during burial ceremonies, Gnonnas adapted, modernised and coined it Agbadja Modern, becoming known as its king. After performing for a decade, Gnonnas recorded various masterpieces in Lagos between 1975 and 1980 which catapulted him