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Monday, March 13, 2006
TIMBINDY
Ali Farka Toure
Red & Green
Nonesuch : 2005
[Buy It]
PAULETTE
Balla et Ses Balladins
Golden Afrique Vol. 1
World Network : 2005
[Buy It]
PAULINE
Docteur Nico & Orchestra African Feiste
Golden Afrique Vol. 2
World Network : 2006
[Buy It]
EYI YATO/ ELERE NI WA
Chief Commander Ebenezer Obey and his Inter-Reformers Band
Lagos All Routes
Honest Jon's : 2005
[Buy It]
YELI BANA
Star Band Number One
No. 3 de No. 1
P.a.M. Records : 2005
[Buy It]
Never having been to Africa (that'd be Astoria correspondent, Alex), my only sense of the place comes from the transmission of music. It's always warm weather music to me, and with the chill of such a sunny winter, perhaps the influx of fine African collections put the unimaginable land at the fore of my thoughts lately. Even before Toure's recent departure from Mali, before the news of Darfur hit, I have been making my way through these immense Golden Afrique sets (with the help of this fine write-up), trying to fathom just how Cuban music made its way back across the Atlantic. Or how Hawaiian slide and a Tijuanian trumpet slid into the Congolese soukous of Docteur Nico. Or else figure out how in the world Star Band Number One's guitarist Yahya Fall gets his entire rig to melt into molten noise. Or, fighting those nagging images of a dried barren Ethiopia from childhood, imagine that liquid state of Chief Commander Ebenezer Obey's guitar, refreshing and immense enough that you could go tubing on its mighty shimmering surface.
posted by beta
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