Papa Noel - Cafe Noir
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Artist: Papa NoelEdition: Music CD
Audio: English (Unknown)
CD Release Date: 2007-03-13
Music Label: Tumi Records
Soundtracks:
- Africa Mokili Mobimba [Congolese Rumba]
- Democratic [Central Africa Rhythm]
- Lolita [Congolese Rumba]
- Salsa Africaine [Afro-Cuban Son]
- Café Noir [Classical African Rumba]
- Sandokan [African Rumba]
- Soleil [Merengue Zoukous][Instrumental]
- Tomatito [African Rumba]
- Soukous Son
- Latin Reverie [Latin Rhythms][Instrumental]
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Free Music Review: Beautiful Music
Hit: 5 Stars
Papa Noel was featured on NPR Radio. What little I had heard it sounded beautiful. I was pleasantly surprised when I listened to this CD. It's so relaxing to listen to. It's upbeat and lively. Super music to listen to pool side! I am now sampling his other CD's and intend on buying them.
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Papa Noël (born Antoine Nedule Monswet on Christmas Day, 1940, hence the affectionate nickname) is one of the greatest African guitarists of all time. His bell-like, rounded, tone, shimmering quicksilver runs and ability to pull ecstatic melodies out of the air -- he never plays any tune the same way twice -- have made him a national treasure with an international fan base. Noël has sat in innumerable seminal bands, from Franco's legendary Kinshasa-based OK Jazz and to the very popular modern Afro-Cuban outfit, Kékélé; in fact, his biography reads like a history of rumba Congolaise from its inception to the present day. And he is equally celebrated as a composer. His gloriously upbeat anthem, "Africa Mokili Mobimba" is known and loved throughout the Continent and a festive, large-scale version of it, complete with a playfully extroverted call-and-response chorus and tasty sax riffs from Noël's contemporary, Cameroonian superstar Manu Dibango (of "Soul Makossa" fame), opens the album. Accompanied by a stellar team that includes Abby Surya and Pierre Belkos (vocals) plus Rey Crespo (arrangements) and host of journeyman Cuban instrumentalists, Noël has fashioned a valentine to the re-Africanization of Cuban rumba. In his hands, both traditions are ineffably enriched and strengthened, as the circle is resealed, source-to-source. --Christina RodenInternational Music CDs
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