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Tunde stared at the metadata. Creator: Unknown. Date: Christmas Day, 1978. A decade before he was born.

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. 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.” Tunde stared at the metadata

He didn’t remember making it. But as he clicked play, the room shifted. A decade before he was born

Tunde had laughed. “Sleigh bells and star apples? Seriki, you want to confuse the ancestors and Santa Claus at the same time?”

A talking drum began, not like a call, but like a confession. Then a soft, highlife guitar arpeggio, wet with reverb. Then—unmistakably—the sound of agbalọmu seeds being spat out, recorded and sampled into a percussive loop. Chk-chk-pfft. Chk-chk-pfft. Underneath, a choir of neighborhood children humming “We Three Kings” in Yoruba, their voices layered like honey and harmattan dust.

On Christmas Eve, Tunde walked to the junction to buy pure water. A toddler was singing the hook: “Agbalọmu mi, give me your sweet, even in December’s heat.”