Culture
The sound of Lagos nights, one street at a time
Field recordings, danfo horns and church choirs — the samples hidden across the last EP.
Boy Yana1 min read
Every track on Lagos Nights carries something recorded outside a studio: a generator hum, a bus conductor calling a route, a choir rehearsing through an open window in Yaba.
Listening as research
The city has a rhythm you cannot program. Walk any market at closing time and you hear counter-rhythms nobody wrote down. We spent months collecting those before writing a single melody.
- Danfo horn — bar one of Palm City
- Rain on zinc — the intro of Sunbeat
- Market chatter — the bridge of Midnight Drum
Artist
Boy Yana
Afrobeat artist from Lagos. Writing from the studio, the road and everywhere in between.
