VA-The_Rough_Guide_to_West_African_Gold-2006-JUST

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JUST

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87,92 MB

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13

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2007-06-22

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Artist.......: VA
Album........: The Rough Guide To West African Gold
Label........: World Music Network
Genre........: Ethnic
Catnr........: RGNET1173CD
source.......: CDDA
rip.date.....: Jun-21-2007
str.date.....: Jul-28-2006
quality......: VBR/44,1Hz/Joint-Stereo
Url..........: n/a

track  title                                          time

 01.   E.T. Mensah -  Ghana-Guinee-Mali              02:46
 02.   Geraldo Pino & The Heartbeats - Let Them      05:15
       Talk
 03.   Bembeya Jazz - Whiskey Soda                   05:34
 04.   Dexter Johnson & The International Band       04:09
       feat. Laba Sosseh -  Manicero
 05.   Celestine Ukwu - Ife Si Na Chi                05:07
 06.   Balla Et Ses Balladins - Moi Je Suis          05:41
       Decourage
 07.   No. 1 De Dakar feat. Doudou Sow - Geej        06:07
 08.   Horoya Band - Were Were                       05:10
 09.   Super Sweet Talks - The Lord's Prayer         05:48
 10.   Sir Victor Uwaifo & His Melody Maestroes -    06:43
       Ekassa No. 34,Igiodo-Giodo
 11.   Eric Agyeman - Abenaa Na Aden?                07:23
 12.   Orchestre Rail Band De Bamako feat. Salif     06:35
       Keita - Mali Cebalenw
 13.   Orchestre Baobab - Boulmamine                 05:54

                                            Runtime  72:12 min
                                            Size     87,9 MB


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Amazon.com
An apt title indeed. Unlike other compilations from
the Rough Guide series that focus on a specific
country or genre, this indispensable anthology for
lovers of vintage dance music incorporates
treasures from a variety of styles. The unifying
element here is the time frame--the fertile decades
between the late '50s and the early '80s--when West
African pop came of age by creating a mesmerizing
stew of spiraling electric guitars, echoes of
Afro-Cuban big band and lyrics brimming with
nationalistic pride (the dark era of European
colonialism was finally over.) Much of the material
here can be classified under the honeyed styled
known as highlife, including a stunning opening
track with a rich calypso flavor by Ghana's
venerable E.T. Mensah. There's also the James
Brown-like funk of Sierra Leone's Geraldo Pino and
the Heartbeats, as well as lengthy workouts by two
of Africa's most celebrated orchestras--Senegal's
Orchestra Baobab and Guinea's Bembeya Jazz. Popular
music doesn't get any more soulful than this.
--Ernesto Lechner

Product Description
The Rough Guide To West African Gold features music
produced in sub-Saharan West Africa from the late
1950s up to the early 1980s - a golden era in
African music. Highlife guitars and horns from
Ghana and Nigeria, Guinean big band music from the
state run Syliphone label, early Senegalese mbalax
with its tasty Latin influences and the funky
Afrobeat sound that shakes the hippest dancefloors
across the globe, this is the big beat of West
Africa!

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