Artist.......: Mastaki Bafa & Global Acoustic Vision
Album........: WaWa
Label........: Network Medien
Genre........: Ethnic
Catnr........: n/a
source.......: CDDA
rip.date.....: 16-08-2006
str.date.....: 00-00-2005
quality......: VBR/44,1Hz/Joint-Stereo
Url..........: http://www.networkmedien.de/
track title time
01. Wawa 04:42
02. Rafiki 04:43
03. Mwa Bashangwa 05:50
04. Faila 04:18
05. Saada 05:20
06. Sikiya Shauri 04:17
07. Angalieni 04:51
08. Nemno 04:11
09. Emigani 05:44
10. Mama 04:48
11. Sikufahanu 03:42
12. Nani ? 03:41
13. Juu Ya Nini ? 03:51
14. Pasi Na Pasi 04:32
Runtime 64:30 min
Size 89,1 MB
Release Notes:
"When the Network team heard recordings of Mastaki
Bafa at the WOMEX world music fair, they were
enthralled by the gently rugged voice, the subtle
arrangements of classical guitar and the sound of
the lokolΘ drum traditionally used to spread news
from village to village.
As a contemporary artist, he handles percussion
instruments from the various regions of his
Congolese homeland with great sensitivity, and
creates a bluesy dialogue with a polyphonic female
voice choir. Music wove its spell on Mastaki Bafa
even as a child growing up in the troubled area of
Kiru, with its refugees and civil war. He would
make his own musical instruments out of cartons,
milk containers, fishing gut and dried gourds.
Eventually, he moved to the capital city, Kinshasa,
where he learned to play several instruments and
devoted himself to a career as a singer-songwriter.
In the songs he has recorded exclusively for
Network in Kinshasa he sings of forgotten
traditional knowledge, dreams of a love untainted
by material confusion, laments the victims of
senseless civil war, gives hope to the poor and
calls on them to build a society founded on
freedom.
"My music comes deep from the heart of Africa. It
speaks to the people who look for peace here and
all over the world, without grand words, but with a
deep sense of the power of music and poetry against
the aberrations of human intelligence." He recently
won the highest award at an international
competition of "Music for Peace" launched by Sting
and others. He dreams of performing in Europe with
his ensemble "Global Acoustic Vision".
From the website