RENOWNED performance poet, Akeem Lasisi, is wishing all a comfortable 2018 with his new album entitled Comforti.

The 10-tracker, released some days ago, is the artist’s fifth effort, coming after Post Mortem (for Chief MKO Abiola); Ori Agbe (For Wole Soyinka); Wonderland (Eleleture) and Udeme (Constituency Project).

Like these works, Comforti, which is Lasisi’s biggest album so far, reflects on socio-political developments whilst also celebrating love and life.

“I like to do poems that are people-oriented,” he said in a chat, adding that the unique thing about Comforti is his decision to celebrate Akure, the Ondo State capital.

Though from Ibadan, Oyo State, he disclosed that the special love he has for Akure, which concretised when he lived there for about two years in the late 80s, inspired the poem.

“Besides, there is an Akure-related song that I always enjoy. That is the Akure lo ni koko song, which also simultaneously reminds one about the exploit of the town, vis-à-vis the state and entire South-West about her exploits as a great cocoa producer. I felt that there is a need to remind ourselves of, as Chinua Achebe would say, where the rain began to beat us. Of course, the track also points to the direction that my Muse will follow in the nearest future.”

Other tracks in Comforti include Isabella, Ma ri Temi Se (Stock Exchange), Onarebu, Jantolo, Deadlock, Three Wise Men and Signature – for the late arts patron and Minister of National Planning, Chief Rasheed Gbadamosi.