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VA - The Rough Guide To The Music Of Africa (1999)

VA - The Rough Guide To The Music Of Africa (1999)

BAND/ARTIST: Various Artists

  • Title: The Rough Guide To The Music Of Africa
  • Year Of Release: 1999
  • Label: World Music Network [RGNET1041CD]
  • Genre: World, Folk, Ethnic Jazz, Soul/Funk
  • Quality: CBR 320 kbps / FLAC (tracks +.cue,log)
  • Total Time: 1:17:10
  • Total Size: 182 mb / 499 mb
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Africa is a musical world unto itself, characterized roughly by an accentuated tradition of rhythm and community. And while this anthology makes no argument for the essence of African music, it's extremely entertaining nonetheless. Why shouldn't the jittery pleasures of Senegalese mbalax (Cheikh Lo and Youssou N'Dour) rub shoulders with the gorgeously laid-back Afro-Cuban grooves of Guinea's Bembeya Jazz National or Eric Agyeman's punchy Ghanaian highlife? The middle of the disc takes a swing north to check out the pentatonic Nubian style of Ali Hassan Kuban, Ethiopian soul singer Mahmoud Ahmed, and techno-Algerian Hamid Baroudi. There's also rebellious South African star Miriam Makeba at her jazziest and Zimbabwe protest singer Oliver Mtukudzi. There's much more: from Zaire, the quicksilver guitars of Mose "Fan Fan"; the Afro-Congo-Portuguese experience of Mozambique's Orchestra Marrabenta; Toumani Diabate's kora virtuosity... And it's all, as they say, good. --Richard Gehr

::TRACKLISTING::

1. Cheikh Lô – Boul Di Tagale (06:10)
2. Busi Mhlongo – We Baba Omncane (05:40)
3. Mose Fan Fan – Kwala Rumba (05:59)
4. Orchestra Marrabenta Star de Moçambique – Wene U N'ga Yale (04:46)
5. Oliver Mtukudzi – Ziwere (06:31)
6. Toumani Diabaté – Bi Lamban (feat. Ballaké Sissoko) (04:59)
7. Hamid Baroudi – Desert Roots (04:29)
8. Ali Hassan Kuban – Mabrouk Wo Arsna (04:12)
9. Mahmoud Ahmed – Dera (05:43)
10. Youssou N’Dour – Xarit (06:45)
11. Bembeya Jazz National – Wouloukoro (03:50)
12. Miriam Makeba & The Skylarks – Uile Ngoan'a Batho (feat. Spokes Mashiyane) (02:20)
13. Eric Agyeman – Ao Me Wiasei Mu (05:11)
14. Bana – Tribute Final (07:01)
15. Lucky Dube – We'll Find A Way (03:35)

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