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Tiken Jah Fakoly
Mangercratie

Artist: Tiken Jah Fakoly
CD title: Mangercratie
Release date: 1996
Label: Blue Silver
Number of Discs: 1
Genre: Reggae
Type: MP3 format sound
Quality: 192 Kbit
Time: 00:33:58
Total size: 46,6 MB

Tracks:
1. Delivrance
2. Plus Jamais Ca
3. Descendant
4. Don
5. Mangercratie (On a Tout Compris...)
6. Djeli
7. Crazy World
8. Descendant [Dub]

Background information:
Since his debut album Djelys (1993), Tiken Jah Fakoly has become one of Africa’s most powerful musical voices. That is partly thanks to his engaged brand of reggae and social commentary. The Ivorian’s trenchant words, either in his native Malinke or in French, go to the heart of the ills dogging his continent - and the cynical connivance of the West behind them. In 2007, Fakoly released his eighth recording L’Africain.

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Daby Balde
Inroducing Daby Balde

Artist: Daby Balde
CD title: Introducing Daby Balde
Release date: 2005
Label: Introducing/World Music Network
Number of Discs: 1
Genre: World
Type: MP3 format sound
Quality: 320Kbit
Time: 01:05:33
Total size: 151 MB
MPEG Video: [00:05:58] [384x288 pixels] [59,4 MB]

Tracks:
1. Mamadiyel
2. Heli
3. Kaye Waxma
4. Tamania
5. Waino Blues
6. Sora
7. Mbadi
8. Halaname
9. Fouladou
10. Douna
11. Hakurujamane
12. Mbeugel
13. Mido Waino

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If there's one area of Africa where great musicians tend to get decent coverage in the west, it's the neighbouring west African states of Senegal and Mali. Surprising, then, that Daby Balde slipped through the net. He's a fine singer from Cassamance, in the south of Senegal, and though he is well known back home he is only now beginning to win international recognition.
Like Salif Keita, Balde struggled to become a musician despite objections from his noble family. His distinctive, laid-back vocals are backed by the subtle textures of an impressive acoustic band, with kora and guitars matched against fiddle work, added later in Belgium. The only problem with Balde's debut album is the lack of variety. Having discovered a gently rhythmic, easy-going style, he simply sticks with it. Taken individually, though, the songs are superb, which is why Balde deserves his second appearance of the week, providing the opening track on Sound of the World (Wrasse), the annual world music round-up by Charlie Gillett. Here, Balde appears alongside his compatriot Youssou N'Dour, and other celebrities including Mali's Amadou and Mariam. If he's this good playing live, and can vary the mood of his work, he could start to receive the same sort of recognition.
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Ali Farka Touré
Niafunké

Artist: Ali Farka Touré
CD title: Naifunké
Release date: 1999
Label: Hannibal
Catalouge No.: HAN571443.2
Number of Discs: 1
Genre: World
Type: MP3 format sound
Quality: 192Kbit
Time: 00:52:31
Total size: 72,5 MB

Tracks:
1. Ali's Here
2. Allah Uya
3. Mali Dje
4. Saukare
5. Hilly Yoro
6. Tulumba
7. Instumental
8. ASCO
9. Jangali Famata
10. Howkouna
11. Cousins
12. Pieter Botha

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Malian guitarist Ali Farka Toure's music has always managed global travel with ease and musical grace, shrinking the miles between Western Africa and the Mississippi Delta and seemingly visiting every city in between. Toure has received his share of accolades for blurring the lines between his contemporary/traditional fingerpicking style and "country blues." Toure has routinely collaborated with musicians from other cultures and musical genres, most notably the prolific and internationally influenced Ry Cooder on their widely acclaimed 1994 album Talking Timbuktu. He establishes a firm aesthetic residence on Niafunké, his first and most welcome CD in five years. Niafunké was recorded using a state-of-the-art portable studio in Toure's home village of Niafunke, which clearly lends a decisive authentic flavor and sense of musical place to the disc. Each tune is a lithe and resonant labyrinth of call-and-response patterns: a fingerpicked guitar speaks to a one-stringed njarka fiddle, calabash pummelings weave into those of the conga drums, and a lively small chorus answers Toure's authoritative lead vocals. A couple of the best cuts include "Ali's Here" and "Saukare." A beautifully rendered and intoxicating record.
~ Becky Byrkit, All Music Guide

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Ali Farka Toure - Savanna

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Angelique Kidjo
Djin Djin

Artist: Angelique Kidjo
CD title: Djin Djin
Release date: 2007
Label: Razor&Tie
Number of Discs: 1
Genre: World
Type: MP3 format sound
Quality: 320Kbit
Time: 00:51:53
Total size: 118 MB

Tracks:
1. Ae Ae
2. Djin Djin - (with Branford Marsalis/Alicia Keys)
3. Gimme Shelter - (with Joss Stone)
4. Salala - (with Peter Gabriel)
5. Senamou (C'est L'Amour) - (with Amadou & Mariam)
6. Pearls - (with Josh Groban/Carlos Santana)
7. Sedjedo - (with Ziggy Marley)
8. Papa
9. Arouna
10. Awan N'la
11. Emma
12. Mama Golo Papa
13. Lonlon (Ravel's Bolero)

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Personnel include: Angelique Kidjo (vocals); Josh Groban, Joss Stone, Alicia Keys, Peter Gabriel, Ziggy Marley (vocals); Lionel Loueke, Carlos Santana (guitar); Romero Lubambo (acoustic guitar); Branford Marsalis (saxophone).

The Beninese singer Angelique Kidjo has been a fixture on the world music scene since the early 1990s, with the success of her first internationally released album, PARAKOU. Her inclusive style blends African, Caribbean, Brazilian, and Western rock musical influences in an irresistible potpourri, crowned with her powerful, distinctive voice, which can turn on a dime from sweet to savage.

Helmed by the veteran producer Tony Visconti, DJIN DJIN follows Kidjo's practice, established on previous albums, of featuring high-caliber guest vocalists, including in this case Peter Gabriel, Ziggy Marley, and Alicia Keys. The wide-ranging set encompasses the haunting, swaying "Salala," the delicate title track, and a typical Kidjo-style Africanized reworking of the Rolling Stones' "Gimme Shelter" (on past albums she has also reinterpreted classics such as Jimi Hendrix's "Voodoo Chile" and Serge Gainsbourg's "Ces Petits Riens"). It's a testament to her formidable musical personality and impeccable musical taste that, despite the presence of her high-powered guests, Kidjo puts her unique stamp on this impressive and eclectic collection.


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Mahotela Queens
Kazet

Artist: Mahotella Queens
CD title: Kazet
Release date: 2006
Number of Discs: 1
Genre: World
Type: MP3 format sound
Quality: 192 Kbit
Time: 00:48:54
Total size: 67,1 MB

Tracks:
1. "Amazemula" ("Monster")
2. "Nomshloshazana" (A woman's name)
3. "Hakenyake"
4. "Kazet"
5. "Muntu Wesilisa" ("We're Talking to You")
6. "Ndodana Yolahleko"
7. "Kade Ulalaphi"
8. "Mbube" ("The Lion")
9. "Ubusuku Nemini"
10. "Amabhongo"
11. "Thandanani" ("Love One Another")
12. "Ukhathazile" (A woman's name)
13. "Safa Yindlala" ("They Died Hungry")
14. "Nkosi Sikelel' iAfrika" ("God Bless Africa")

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The Mahotella Queens are South Africa's foremost afro-pop singing group. The Queens -Hilda Tloubatla, Mildred Mangxola, and Nobesuthu Mbadu- first sealed their place in the legend of urban South African music in the early 1960's when, with Simon Nkabindé Mahlathini (the "Lion of Soweto") and the musicians of the Makgona Tsothle Band ("The Band Who Knows Everything"), they invented Mbaquanga. Mbaquanga (the Zulu word for a kind of dumpling, implying the homemade quality of the music's origin) is a strong and explosive potion of various types of traditional music (Zulu, Sotho, Shangaan, Xhosa) mixed with Marabi (South African jazz), American r&b, soul and gospel.
Throughout the 1960s and beginning of the 1970s Mahlathini and the Mahotella Queens played beer halls and township dances in South Africa. Their original sound came to be dubbed the "indestructible beat of Soweto", and their solid four-to-the-floor dance rhythm and soaring vocal harmonies came to embody the spirit of the oppressed peoples of the townships. They soon hit the international stage as heroes of the cultural resistance to apartheid and as idols to South Africa's black community during the dark years. They took a break in the mid-'70s to raise families, but reunited in the beginning of the eighties. In 1987, producer West Nkosi - saxophonist, penny-whistle player, and conductor of the Makgona Tsothle Band - took advantage of a stay in Paris to cut the record "Paris -Soweto" for the French label Celluloid, resulting in the Mahlathini & the Mahotella Queens' international hit "Kazet".
The album "Kazet" is a compilation of recordings that had recently been recorded in South Africa and in Paris, and included the South African national anthem "Nkosi Sikelel' i Afrika" in addition to new compositions such as "Amazemula" ("Monster"), "Nomshloshazana" (A woman's name) and "Ubusuku Nemini" and classics like "Kazet".

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Tiken Jah Fakoly
L’Africain

Artist: Tiken Jah Fakoly
CD title: L’Africain
Release date: 2007
Label: Barclay
Ref.: CD 530 130-6
Number of Discs: 1
Genre: Reggae
Type: MP3 format sound
Quality: 320 Kbit/s
Time: 00:47:22
Total size: 108 MB

Tracks:
1. The African
2. Open The Frontiers
3. Ou Aller Ou?
4. African In Paris
5. Ayebada
6. Soldier (Feat AKON)
7. Non A L'Excision
8. Foly
9. Viens Voir
10. Promenesses Bla Bla
11. Left Right
12. My Ivory Coast

Background information:
Since his debut album Djelys (1993), Tiken Jah Fakoly has become one of Africa’s most powerful musical voices. That is partly thanks to his engaged brand of reggae and social commentary. The Ivorian’s trenchant words, either in his native Malinke or in French, go to the heart of the ills dogging his continent - and the cynical connivance of the West behind them. In 2007, Fakoly released his eighth recording L’Africain.


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Various Artists
Midnight in Mali

Artist: Various Artists
CD title: Midnight in Mali
Release date: 2006
Number of Discs: 1
Genre: World
Type: MP3 format sound
Quality: 256-320 Kbit/s
Time: 01:13:42
Total size: 102 MB

Tracks:
1. Artistes
2. N'Garbamama
3. Maky
4. Farafina (Africa)
5. Forobana
6. Souaressi
7. Mon Amour
8. Soy Te Aw La
9. Signana
10. Mansani Cisse

Malian musicians are renowned for their spontaneity. Anyone who has explored Bamako’s intimate musical settings - street weddings, courtyard jam sessions and evening concerts at open-air "cultural spaces" where anyone might show up - knows this. And yet the jam session is a side of the music rarely heard in the polished studio recordings that have put this West African musical colossus on the map in recent years.
This extraordinary concert, recorded at Bamako’s French Cultural Centre on 23rd December 2004, rights the balance, revealing the personalities, humour and improvisational mastery of some of the country’s finest musicians interacting in a once-in-a-lifetime formation.
The line-up is remarkable for the calibre of musician present, the range of styles represented and the ease with which the artists traverse borders to make gorgeous, free-flowing music together.
Midnight in Mali is that rare occasion when musical giants dare to risk the new, rely on their wits, and freely explore their shared heritage: the majestic, matchless variety of Malian music.
Banning Eyre

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Gnawa - Home Songs
Accords Croisés AC 117, 2006

01. Merchane Family - Chalabati
02. Hamid Kasri - Aicha Hamdouchia
03. Collectif - Bouyandi
04. Zef Zaf - Foul gnawa
05. Hassan Boussou - Katib Allah
06. Abdelkader Merchane - Hamadi
07. Collectif - Bangoro
08. Abdelkebir Amlil - Instrumental
09. Hamid Kasri - Hamdouchia
10. Amida Boussou - Boulila
11. Zef Zaf - Tombouctou
12. Collectif - Sidi Koumy
13. Hassan Boussou - Soye
14. Selon Zef Zef (Video)

Quote: Intimate blues from the heart of Africa sung by some of the greatest Moroccan Gnawa voices.
The village of Tamesloht is a holy place in the arid lands south of Marrakesh. In the moonlight, its telluric walls resound with the motto of protective gnawa spirits. Between the call to prayer and the humming of insects, its sound universe is inhabited by Sub-Saharan Africa and age-old migrations. This tribute to the brotherhood's saints is both intimate and transgressive, bearing the healing melodies of their ritual drums and krakebs. "Gnawa home songs" is an exceptional gathering of great soloists (vocals and guembri lute), brought together by Emmanuelle Honorin and Karim Ziad. It features Hamid Kasri and Amlil, from Rabat, H'mida and Hassan Boussou, from Casablanca, and the Merchane family from Marrakesh.

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Musique populaire africaine. La voix du passé, Archives 1926-1952
Buda Musique 82284-2, 2004

01. Francis Boloyyi & Shangaan Band - Flore Lakusaseka-Mozambique 2:34
02. Francis Boloyyi & Shangaan Band - Miyelo Bebe-Mozambique 2:35
03. Abugu Kisukwe & Bamba Men - Lusunga Bakali-Ouganda 2:38
04. Abugu Kisukwe & Bamba Men - Mauwa-Ouganda 2:43
05. Tobo Eitel - Ndol'a Jomba-Cameroun 2:53
06. Tobo Eitel - Ndol'a Bwam-Cameroun 2:52
07. Wendo K. Ngoma - Bokilo-Congo Zaire 3:07
08. Wendo K. Ngoma - Napessi Yo Mbongo-Congo Zaire 3:04
09. Manuel D'oliveira & Les San Salvador - Cherie Bondowe-Ghana 3:03
10. Jack Dawudu - Ifabanke-Ghana 2:55
11. Ben Simmons - Osofu Da Banim-Ghana 3:02
12. Ben Simmons - Ohse Nta Ma Qua-Ghana 2:57
13. Domingo Justus - Bi Ina La Ku Fi Eru Loju-Ghana 3:17
14. Georges Williams Aingo - Fine Fine Sha't Are-Ghana 2:53
15. Tunde King & His Group Jùjù - Aronke Macaulay-Nigeria 2:54
16. Irewolede Denge - Orin Asape Eko-Nigeria 3:00
17. Jolly Orchestra - Abonsa-Nigeria 2:48
18. Cuasgo & Gouama - Kikiriga Poco-Nigeria 2:59

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