Various - Soundtrack Angola - Luanda Special sounds from 1965-1978 (ANALOG AFRICA) (2010)
It will take a day that I am leaning more forward on two subjects that so totally improbable go together. The first is who may be hiding behind the gold diggers musical people are the label Analog Africa, as each of their deliveries is both a complete surprise and an unstoppable success. At each of their shipments as well, and this is the second question which I have to really immerse myself, my mysterious visitor Gabon again appeared on the site, remaining up to now, the only African tour that I can honor me, without offending me as long as the content the blog is usually quite far from the black continent. Anyway, knowing that I would not answer any of these 2 questions for now, let's take us headlong into the listening volume of the new Angolan adventure Analog Africa.
some reason, the first seconds of the CD remind me every time the credits of South Park, But fans of the exotic, do not worry, it's very stealthy. African music fans by cons, you may be somewhat surprised by the seconds that follow what I just mentioned, because more than baobabs and red dirt roads, to the jungle or the savannah is undoubtedly the beaches of Brazil that music will make you think. Why? may be simply because Angola, Mozambique as for those who want to be a general culture through this com, is a former Portuguese colony and, indeed, is the language that rocks hard as quiet everything that it is rhythmic. Invitation to lazing on the banks of the river Kwanza (Ferreira Do Nascimento (Macongo Me Chiquita)) or casually waddle (Zé da Lua (Ulungu Wami)), anyway, this new delivery of the precious label Analog Africa is the ideal way to forget, temporarily, that Angola is a country that has experienced a terrible civil war in both its duration and the number of its victims. Hard to believe listening to these nuggets spread between 65 and 78, while the oil had only begun their great work of looting the country's wealth.
Surfing almost Jovens Do Prenda Psychedelic (Ilha Virgem), the latinesque N'Goma Jazz (Cantando Para Ti Mi), Afrobeat slow Quim Manuel O Espirito Santo (Lelu Eme), once again we are delighted by the eclectic scene that is (re?) Discovered through this Working as an archaeologist who has been loaned Samy Ben Redjeb. Eclectic, yes, but not messy, which is no small feat, as it finally Mama Africa bringing together this whole project, no escalation in the means used to highlight the songs (for lack of means ? may be a little but mostly, without a doubt humility Angolan musicians to their art), efficiency without a free demonstration, patient work of interpreters, exudes the relaxed pace and often resigned Africa.
After that though some still dare to talk about African music you will not struggle to show them that it would be stupid to talk about European music and put in one basket Ramsteinn and ... uh .... Radio Tarifa, at random. Analog Africa once again gives us a double journey: a journey through time, and a trip to Africa, timeless by definition, addressing, at the same time, a nod to the man who supported ventured one day declare that "man Africa was not entered into history. " In that music, in any case, there has always been!
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