African Odyssey
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Edition: Music CDCD Release Date: 2001-09-11
Music Label: Putumayo World Music
Soundtracks:
- Fundo Di Matu - Manecas Costa
- The Well - Seydu
- Sou - Les Go
- Raki - Oliver Mtukudzi
- Mar - Augusto Cego
- Kecu Minino Na Tchora - Bidinte
- Kulala - Aura Msimang
- Miri Yoro - Adama Yalomba
- Nipelaki Kwa Baba - Doctor King'esi
- Sinama Denw - Habib Koite
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Free Music Review: Acoustic Africa
Hit: 5 Stars
While people associate Africa with drumming,this album leans to the acoustic side.Putumayo excels in exploring world acoustic music,and this album is a shining example.Each song is perfect,haunting.
Manecas Costa sings of a long-lost love;Seydu sings of the plight of children during wartime.Les Go is a powerful trio of women from the Ivory Coast.Oliver Mtukudzi of Zimbabwe,who is on many Putumayo albums,has a beautiful song about the sustaining power of spirituality.Augusto Cego from Cape Verde sings of the melancholy of the sea.Aura Msimang sings powerfully of a mother's loss.Adama Yalomba sings about helping the less fortunate accompanied by an unobtrusive electronic beat;I wish I could find more of his music.Habib Koite sings about the problems caused by polygamy when wives fight;it's not the glossy version of polygamy presented on HBO's "Big Love",but the atrocious nature of it in Mali.Koite doesn't sugarcoat it.
This is a powerful album.Despite its heavy themes of hunger,war&polygamy,its music is relaxing&uplifting.
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