Download Seriki Agbalumo | Mi Instrumental Christmasxmass

A rising Afrobeats star, Seriki, had called him at 2 AM. “Tunde, I need a miracle. I’m dropping ‘Agbalọmu Mi’—the Christmas remix. But the instrumental must feel like sunrise on a harmattan morning. Like agbalọmu—that sweet, sticky African star apple—melting on the tongue, but with sleigh bells.”

But Seriki was serious. “The people are tired of ‘Jingle Bells’ and frozen reindeer. We are not winter people. We are harmattan people. Give us dust, drums, and desire. Give me Agbalọmu Mi .” Download Seriki Agbalumo Mi Instrumental Christmasxmass

It was the week before Christmas in Lagos, and Tunde’s small recording studio, Iroko Beats , hummed with the heat of amplifiers and the scent of fried plantains from the mama put downstairs. He had three days to finish the most peculiar brief of his career. A rising Afrobeats star, Seriki, had called him at 2 AM