With Chant to Mother Earth, we BLO across the six minute mark in songs.....!!.....and set sail for beautiful Nigeria. BLO is an acronym of the band members' names - Berkley (g), Laolu (d), and Odumosu (b). The track is from the compilation album Nigeria Rock Special.
It is a song of praise to the ultimate provider. It starts off like a new day has just begun, waking up and stretching and looking out the window, shaking off the sleep. The music has a San Francisco acid rock 1968 feel to it, particularly the guitar. At 0:45 we are up and moving about, making the coffee, turning our brains on. The chant starts up at 0:52, o-way, o-way-ay-o. The first verse comes in at 1:33, I'm not sure but it sounds like My feeling this morning, show me I'll tell it to you. The reverb and accent make it hard to understand.
Following the second verse and another chant, at 3:15 the guitar solo comes on like a mix of Clapton, Garcia and MC5/Stooges Detroit. It is raw and bluesy and chaotic, all Mother Earth-inspired wildness, opening the wah pedal at 3:32 to bliss out even further.
We come out of the trance at 4:55. Time for one last chant and then we wander off into the rest of the day.
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