I like it when people are not presumptuous. It may not make commercial sense in our music clime but, it kind of sits the singer comfortably in any gathering. This is what Beautiful Noise will do for Timi. If you’re like me and you’re tired of auto-tuned tracks, let me introduce you to an auto-tune-free album! Ring the bell.
Since Timi Dakolo was unveiled to us in 2007 on the West African Idol stage, his vocal uniqueness has remained that uncommon husky tinge perfect for serenading the listener when applied to simple or complex love lines. Beautiful Noise shows one that the debutante is well aware of his strength as he stays in his comfort region, experimenting very little.
The 12-track album includes an intro, a re-mix and five collaborations.
Apart from his three earlier released singles, ‘Let it Shine’, ‘Heaven Please’ and ‘There’s a Cry’, every other song is themed around love and so titled. Between making promises to The woman I (he) love(s) and writing her a befitting ‘Love Song’ on Tracks three and seven respectively, Timi remains in his comfortable R&B environment. He screams ‘I Love You’ again in Track four just before asking ‘Is it Over’ on Track six where he gets a beautiful assist from newcomer Joan Ekpai who sounds almost like gospel singer Lara George.
Elvis Larri helps deliver beautiful danceable mid-tempo music in the tenth track where Ghana-born Timi speaks a bit of Yoruba. In a fashion that brings back memories of Late Jaiye Aboderin-led Synergy’s only released recording, Elvis and Timi sing ‘So beautiful’. However the track could have been better named ‘Lekeleke’ or ‘Ololufe’, words which were used repetitively throughout the track.
On Track seven, producer extraordinaire Cobhams sings and raps to Timi’s first official party anthem titled ‘Raise the roof’. With beat, sequence and production facsimile to Darey’s ‘The way you are’ (equally produced by Cobhams), the duo do a good job, creating a much-needed detour from the love overdose.
The album closes with a remix of ‘I love you’ where Jesse Jagz lends his rhyming prowess, waking up the song and bringing a fresh dimension to delivering love songs.
Beautiful Noise is a good diversion from the up-tempo saturation we have dropping on the radio every other day. It runs the risk of getting boring though unless you’re such an introvert. I’d name I love You, Raise the roof, So Beautiful and I love You remix as album-breakers without which I wouldn’t have survived listening to the entire album, but for the sake of review.
Altogether, it’s a safe album.
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