Angélique Kidjo - Oyaya!
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Artist: Angélique KidjoEdition: Music CD
CD Release Date: 2011-06-08
Music Label: Columbia
Soundtracks:
- Seyin Djro
- Congoleo
- Bala Bala
- Oulala
- N'Yin Wan Nou We
- Conga Habanera
- Le monde comme un bébé
- Mutoto Kwanza
- Adje Dada
- Djovamin Yi
- Dje Dje L'Aye
- Macumba
- Bissimilai
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Free Music Review: AN AFRICAN ANGEL
Hit: 5 Stars
Angelique mesmerises.Her Salsa journey is real ladies and gentlemen.This African queen is truly a bridge between Africa and the diaspora.For the amnesiacs and cynics remember that salsa is African music first and foremost.Other influences were patched on to this unique genre - from Africa.No man woman or child can sit still when salsa is pulsating away.Angelique has succesfully crossed over from "pure" African music back to the roots that bind all of our African and Afro-Carribean brethren.That continent was NEVER dark as the descendants of racist colonisers and incumbent wishful thinkers would have us believe.Africa had and always will have brilliant light to shine away your blues for the whole world even for the bigots out there.African music stands for fun,reflection and meditation.The listener chooses the mood and the music follows and lubricates the listener's mind and massages the blues away.Angelique captures this with brilliance.This is a great album listed in my mind as a historical piece which I will enjoy 30 years from now.Thanks to talents like Angelique.Madam African Princess, Angelique, I have this to say to you: keep belting out those incredible vocals and your band those amazing salsa riffs.Angelique and your band ROCK!!!!You relax the tired old Doctor after a long day at work.I love ALL your work and I will continue to collect all of it INCLUDING ALL YOUR FUTURE ALBUMS.Ed Ndovi, MD
Edmonton,Canada
Fan numero uno for Angelique Kidjo
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OYAYA! by Angélique KidjoThis product is manufactured on demand using CD-R recordable media. Amazon.com's standard return policy will apply.
Over the years, Benin-born singer Angelique Kidjo has mixed her native African music with elements of other styles. While 1998's Oremi looked at the music of the United States and 2002's Black Ivory Soul found Kidjo tasting the fruits of Brazilian music, the third installment of Kidjo's New World trilogy, Oyaya!, is her take on Caribbean music. Here she retraces old slave trade routes to connect African root music styles to such offshoots as salsa, bolero, meringue, calypso and ska. Of the 13 originals, Congo Habanera is a particularly potent combination of salsa-fueled grooves, watery highlife guitars and African drumming. Singing in French, Fon and Mino, Kidjo's world-class voice can be keening and hard-edged ("Bissimilai") or coy and gentle ("N'yin Wan Nou Wé"), often juxtaposing the two extremes in the same song ("Bala Bala"). Angelique Kidjo continues to crest with Oyaya!, again proving that everything is within reach of her considerable talent. ?-Tad Hendrickson
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