Artist.......: AngΘlique Kidjo
Album........: Live Au Festival Mawazine
Label........: n/a
Genre........: Ethnic
Catnr........: n/a
Source.......: DVBS
Rip.date.....: 2012-11-10
Str.date.....: 2012-05-22
Quality......: 228kbps/48.0kHz/Joint Stereo
Url..........: http://www.kidjo.com/
track title time
1. Live Au Festival Mawazine 68:38
* Mbube
* Ha Po Zamani
* Saduva
* Lakutshn Ilanga
* Mama Ndiyalila
* Percu Solo Charly
* Jol'Inkomo
* Suliram
* Malaika
* Pole Mze
* Retreat Song
* Afirika
* Pata Pata
* Soweto Blues
Runtime 68:38
Size 112.19
Release Notes:
Afro-funk, reggae, samba, salsa, gospel, jazz, Zairean rhumba, zouk, and makossa
are combined through the music of soulful Benin-born, Paris-based vocalist
AngΘlique Kidjo. Since the release of her self-produced debut solo album,
Pretty, in 1988, Kidjo has been embraced by the international press. Her albums
have been strengthened by contributions from top-notch guest musicians and
producers. Parakou, her first internationally distributed album, featured jazz
keyboardist Jasper van't Hof, the leader of Pili Pili, a Holland-based Afro-jazz
band with whom Kidjo had performed at the Montreux Jazz Festival in 1987.
Logozo, recorded in Miami in 1991 and produced by Joe Galdo of Miami Sound
Machine, featured Branford Marsalis on saxophone. Marsalis later performed on
Kidjo's album Oremi. The album features Kidjo singing duets with Cassandra
Wilson ("Never Know") and Kelly Price ("Open Your Eyes"). Kidjo's most ambitious
album, Fifa (1996), featured more than 100 percussionists, flutists, cowbell,
and berimbau players, singers, and dancers from Benin and one track featuring
Carlos Santana. Kidjo's husband, Jean HΘbrail, a French bass player and composer
she met in 1987, has played a major role in the recording of her albums.
The daughter of an actress, dancer, and theatrical producer, Kidjo was born in
Quidah, a coastal city in the West African country of Benin. Inheriting her
mother's love of performing, she made her stage debut with her mother's
theatrical troupe. Inspired by the rock, pop, and soul music of Jimi Hendrix,
Santana, Miriam Makeba, James Brown, and Aretha Franklin, she was singing
professionally by her 20th birthday. Although she recorded an album, Pretty
(produced by Cameroon-based vocalist Ekambi Brilliant), that yielded a hit
single, "Ninive," the oppressive political environment of Benin led her to
relocate to Paris in 1980. Although modern technology and electronics played an
important role in the recording of her first four albums, Kidjo returned to her
traditional roots with Fifa. Armed with eight-track tape recorders and
microphones, Kidjo and a team of engineers traveled to Benin to record
traditional musicians, singers, and dancers. The album was completed during
recording sessions in Paris, London, Los Angeles, and San Francisco. With her
next album, 1998's Oremi, Kidjo returned to her futuristic approach.
Incorporating elements of hip-hop and Afro-Celtic grooves, Oremi featured a
reconstructed interpretation of Jimi Hendrix's "Voodoo Child (Slight Return)."
Kidjo's enthusiastic presence was evident on the video of her international hit
"Agolo," from her album Aye (1994). Produced by Will Mowatt of Soul II Soul and
longtime Prince collaborator David Z, the video was nominated for a Grammy
Award. Kidjo's songs have been featured on the soundtracks of such films as My
Favorite Season, Street Fighter, and Ace Ventura: When Nature Calls. As the new
millennium got underway, Kidjo signed to Columbia and prepped for her
major-label debut. Exploring musical elements of her native Benin to that of
northeastern Brazil, Black Ivory Soul was released in 2002. Oyaya!, which
featured a collaboration with Dave Matthews, was issued two years later. Kidjo
then joined forces with Razor & Tie for the May 2007 release of Djin Djin. A
second Razor & Tie album, ╒ ÷, followed in 2010 and featured guest spots from
Roy Hargrove, John Legend, and Dianne Reeves. Spirit Rising, A CD and DVD
representation of an uplifting live special Kidjo taped at WGBH Studios,
appeared from Razor & Tie in 2012.