Miriam_Makeba-Her_Essential_Recordings_The_Empress_of_African_Song-2CD-ZA-2006-JUST

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123,58 MB

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2007-03-17

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Artist.......: Miriam Makeba
Album........: Her Essential Recordings The Empress Of African Song
Label........: Manteca
Genre........: Ethnic
Catnr........: MANTDBL502
source.......: CDDA
rip.date.....: Mar-15-2007
str.date.....: Apr-01-2006
quality......: VBR/44,1Hz/Joint-Stereo
Url..........: www.miriammakeba.co.za

track  title                                          time

       cd1

 01.   In the Land of the Zulus(Kwazulu)             02:36
 02.   Pata Pata                                     03:03
 03.   Kutheni Sithandwa                             02:38
 04.   Makoti                                        02:35
 05.   Kilimanjaro                                   02:50
 06.   Thanayi (A.K.A. Nomalungelo)                  03:10
 07.   Inkomo Zodwa                                  02:26
 08.   Hush                                          02:42
 09.   Teya, Teya                                    03:27
 10.   Jolinkomo                                     03:21
 11.   Miriam & Spokes Phata Phata                   02:37
 12.   Uthando Luyaphela                             02:28
 13.   Live Humble                                   02:26
 14.   Baby Ntsoare                                  03:04
 15.   Liwa Wechi                                    02:51
 16.   Zenizenabo                                    01:24
 17.   Mas Que Nada                                  03:18
 18.   Uyadela                                       02:29
 19.   Mbube (The Lion Cries)                        04:59
 20.   My Angel (Malaika)                            03:17

       cd2

 01.   Click Song No. 1                              02:22
 02.   Amampondo                                     02:35
 03.   Chicken (Kikirikiki) (A.K.A. Sekusile)        04:26
 04.   Carnival                                      02:24
 05.   Umqokozo                                      02:11
 06.   Sophiatown Is Gone                            02:44
 07.   Intandane                                     02:29
 08.   Orlando                                       02:48
 09.   Love Tastes Like Strawberries                 03:26
 10.   Ngola Kurila                                  03:10
 11.   Ntyilo Ntyilo                                 02:31
 12.   Isangoma (Witch Doctor)                       04:02
 13.   Mitshakasi                                    02:16
 14.   Tula Ndivile                                  03:11
 15.   Samba                                         05:05
 16.   Mama Ndiyalila                                03:30
 17.   Talking & Dialoging                           05:38
 18.   Holilili                                      02:36
 19.   Miriam's Goodbye to Africa                    02:48
 20.   Nagula  with Harry Bellafonte                 01:39

                                            Runtime  119:32 min
                                            Size     123,6 MB


Release Notes:

The packaging on this 40-song, two-CD anthology of
this major South African artist ù most of it taken
from recordings spanning the mid-'50s to late '60s,
though there are a few from the 1970s too ù leaves
something to be desired. The tracks are sequenced
so that they jump back and forth chronologically,
and while there are well-written liner notes of
decent length, the song listings themselves do not
spell out the dates and sources for each recording.
That makes it necessary to cumbersomely shift back
and forth between the notes and listings to figure
out what part of Miriam Makeba's career's being
represented by what's coming through the speakers.
Whether or not you're one to get bugged by such
details, however, there's no denying that this set
does contain a lot of good music, even if its
sampling is rather scattershot. Her most famous
recording, her 1967 hit version of "Pata Pata," is
here, but some tracks go all the way back to
mid-'50s South African recordings with the
Manhattan Brothers. Again, chronological sequencing
would have really helped, but taken all together,
you do get a sense of the considerable ground she
covered in the 1950s and 1960s, from somewhat dated
(but charmingly hokey) jazz-pop backings to earthy
rhythmic recordings that drew considerably more
from indigenous South African styles. There are
also hints of Latin music, torch jazz songs, duets
with Harry Belafonte, gospel, and even a bit of
rock & roll. The constants, however, are Makeba's
reliably mellifluous, spirited vocals, as well as
(with only a few exceptions) a fine eye for
integrating South African folk and popular styles
with some Western pop sensibilities. It might not
be the most coherently assembled Makeba
compilation, but you'd have a hard time beating it
for the amount of diverse quality music it stuffs
into two discs.

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