Wiyaala - Sissala Goddess (2018)
BAND/ARTIST: Wiyaala
- Title: Sissala Goddess
- Year Of Release: 2018
- Label: Djimba World Records
- Genre: World; Folk; Pop; African
- Quality: FLAC (tracks)
- Total Time: 1:05:37
- Total Size: 432 MB
- WebSite: Album Preview
Candace Bushnell, creator of Sex and the City, has company. The Ghanaian singer-songwriter Noella Wiyaala opens her second album with Village Sex (video 1), intertwining music and attitude: Her outlook balances respect for some traditions (like pre-marital abstinence) with modern ideals (women comfortable with sexuality); her style blends West African folk, Afropop and arena rock. On Sissala Goddess, Wiyaala unveils a rustic 16-track panorama viewed through a personal-cultural lens, touching not only on love and marriage but also confidence and faith, betrayal and violence, humor and heritage—with a commanding voice shifting to soothing or prayerful at the right moments. In contrast to its sensual intro, When the Lord Get Us Ready is a hymn to divine gifts (video 2). A response to mob brutality, The Captain’s Lament recalls the lynching of an army officer mistaken for an outlaw (video 3); while Wiisi (Not Too Much, Not Too Little) pays tribute to the humility of Wiyaala’s blind uncle (video 4). The artist’s surname means “the doer” in Sissala, spoken in and around Funsi, the village in Ghana’s Upper West Region where she grew up. Singing mostly in Sissala and English, she lives up to her name—as a teen Wiyaala improvised one of her first costumes from her mother’s tablecloth and as one of her country’s most renowned entertainers she still makes her own performance attire and jewelry based on village designs. Her stage persona is inseparable from her activism as a UNICEF ambassador, opposing female genital mutilation and child marriage and promoting women’s rights. She also prizes village values like community, dispute resolution and deference to elders. Urban or rural, east or west, no realm has a monopoly on wisdom or folly. But Wiyaala offers proof that mixing tradition and provocation is good for music and for civilization—even a civilization the size of a village. (Djimba World Records)
Wiyaala: Sissala Goddess
Noella Wiyaala: Vocals
Jürgen Von Wechmar, Henry Steel: Guitars
Melissa Van Der Spuy: Keys
Shane Cooper: Bass
Kevin Gibson: Drums
Tracklist:
01. Wiyaala - Village Sex (3:27)
02. Wiyaala - Wiisi (Not Too Much Not Too Little) (4:53)
03. Wiyaala - Pogsunn (Good Woman) (4:11)
04. Wiyaala - When the Lord Get Us Ready (6:03)
05. Wiyaala - Rock and Sand (3:33)
06. Wiyaala - The Captain's Lament (3:17)
07. Wiyaala - Valla (Walking) (4:49)
08. Wiyaala - Woyaye (We Are Going) (4:47)
09. Wiyaala; The Meerkat - Did You Really Mean It (4:20)
10. Wiyaala - Money And Fame (3:52)
11. Wiyaala - Satellite Baby (4:20)
12. Wiyaala - For Your Love (4:19)
13. Wiyaala - My Life (3:32)
14. Wiyaala - I Moved On (3:35)
15. Wiyaala - Feeling Free (4:32)
16. Wiyaala - I Don't Know (2:08)
Wiyaala: Sissala Goddess
Noella Wiyaala: Vocals
Jürgen Von Wechmar, Henry Steel: Guitars
Melissa Van Der Spuy: Keys
Shane Cooper: Bass
Kevin Gibson: Drums
Tracklist:
01. Wiyaala - Village Sex (3:27)
02. Wiyaala - Wiisi (Not Too Much Not Too Little) (4:53)
03. Wiyaala - Pogsunn (Good Woman) (4:11)
04. Wiyaala - When the Lord Get Us Ready (6:03)
05. Wiyaala - Rock and Sand (3:33)
06. Wiyaala - The Captain's Lament (3:17)
07. Wiyaala - Valla (Walking) (4:49)
08. Wiyaala - Woyaye (We Are Going) (4:47)
09. Wiyaala; The Meerkat - Did You Really Mean It (4:20)
10. Wiyaala - Money And Fame (3:52)
11. Wiyaala - Satellite Baby (4:20)
12. Wiyaala - For Your Love (4:19)
13. Wiyaala - My Life (3:32)
14. Wiyaala - I Moved On (3:35)
15. Wiyaala - Feeling Free (4:32)
16. Wiyaala - I Don't Know (2:08)
Year 2018 | Pop | World | Folk | FLAC / APE
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