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Mory Kanté: Akwaba Beach

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Label: Barclay Records
Released: 1987
Time:
 37:50
Category: World Music
Producer(s): Nick Patrick
Rating: ********.. (8/10)
Media type: CD
Web address: www.morykante.com
Appears with:
Purchase date: 2001.04.28
Price in €: 4,99



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[1] Yéké Yéké (Mory Kante) - 4:00
[2] Deni (Mory Kante) - 3:47
[3] Inch' Allah (Mory Kante) - 5:07
[4] Tama (Mory Kante) - 6:00
[5] Africa 2000 (Mory Kante) - 4:39
[6] Dia (Mory Kante) - 3:48
[7] Nanfoulen (Mory Kante) - 5:18
[8] Akwaba Beach (Mory Kante) - 5:11

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MORY KANTÉ - Vocals, Cora

DJANKA DIABATE - Choir, Chorus
TONY BRENES - Trumpet
MOUSSA CISSOKHO - Conga, Drums, Djembe
LES DAVIDSON - Guitar
ROLAND VAUGHAN Kerridge - Drums, Drum Programming
SAMBA N'DIAYE - Guitar
WILLY N'FOR - Bass, Double Bass
DANIEL PABOEUF - Tenor Saxophone
NICK PARKER - Keyboards, Keyboard Programming
ALEX PERDIGON - Trombone
JOSEPH KUO - Drums
SOFI HELLBORG - Lato Saxophone

NICK PATRICK - Engineer, Mixing
ERWIN AUTRIQUE - Assistant Engineer
MAMBA OTIS MBAYE - Executive Producer
SYLVIA GOUBERN - Photography
SYLVAIN LHOTELIER - Design
WILLIAM YONNER - Design

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1988 CD Barclay 833119-2
1988 LP Barclay 833119-1
1987 Barclay 833 119
1990 CD Barclay 833119
1988 CS Barclay 833119-4

Akwaba Beach changed the history of African music. Mory Kante was a young griot well known in West Africa before he moved to Paris in 1984. No one at the time, not even Kante himself, could imagine that four years later, he would become a major star with his hit "Yéké Yéké". In the early 80s, while in Abidjan, he played the song in the traditional style, as we can hear on his first French album released in 1984, Mory Kante à Paris. The 1987 version on Akwaba Beach has gone into overdrive and was recorded using state-of-the-art studio technology. Between June 1988 and February 1989 the album charted in 12 countries, reaching the top five in eight of them. The single sold nearly a million copies, while the album sold 500,000. For an African artist, this was an extraordinary breakthrough on the international music scene. Producers everywhere began trying to find their own "Yéké Yéké". But no one has yet equalled Mory Kante's worldwide success with Akwaba Beach



The first single from Akwaba Beach, "Yeke Yeke," was a major European dance hit for Kante in 1987. Dismissed by some for his heavy dance beat, Kante's crossover sound is a perfect way to ease your ears into the joys of African pop.

J. Poet - All Music Guide


Pechschwarze Rhythmen, markante Bläser und scharfe Disco-Beats: Damit schaffte Mory Kanté den Sprung aus seiner afrikanischen Heimat Guinea in die europäischen Charts. Sein rhythmischer Gesang und die harfenähnliche Cora verleiht den knalligen Aufnahmen zusätzliches Flair - attraktiver Kulturmix.

© Audio



Imagine a scene hundreds of years ago in the isolated jungles of Africa. A tribe is playing traditional music with bongos, flutes and primitive stringed guitars. Enter a hip, technologically advanced synthesizer wizard with the latest Roland computerized contraption, then picture the funky dance music session they'd have. That fantasy becomes a past-meets-present reality with Mory Kante's first U.S. release, Akwaba Beach. Kante's upbringing took place in total isolation in the Mandigo culture, where he learned pure African music devoid of Western influence. Teamed with world music producer Nick Patrick, Kante makes an excellent case for the blending of past African techniques such as call-and-response vocals and repetitive rhythm patterns with new technology embodied in drum machines and synths. Already a European dance and pop sensation, the single "Ye Ke Ye Ke" uses age-old African rhythms to pull even the most closed-minded to the dance floor. By all accounts, catchy songs like "Tama" should be saturating so-called "Hot" radio formats, except that it's sung in Malinka. Turn on "Africa 2000," "Deni" and the aforementioned songs for a joyous ride to Akwaba Beach.

CMJ New Music Report Issue: 158 - Nov 18, 1988



Akwaba Beach est l'album incontournable du rocker guinéen. Sorti en 1987, soit treize ans après ses débuts au sein du fameux Rail Band de Bamako, cette production dirigée par Nick Patrick connaît un succès sans précédent avec le titre "Yéké Yéké" classé n° 1 dans tous les charts européens. En prenant le virage rock le plus international de tous les joueurs de kora, Mory Kanté décrochait en 1988 un prix aux Victoires de la Musique et sillonnait la planète. Malinké (musique de Guinée et du Mali) par la mélodie, rock et funk par le rythme, le tube du griot électrique sera vendu à deux millions d'exemplaires et même traduit en hébreu et en chinois, prouvant ainsi que la musique africaine pouvait faire danser toute la jeunesse du monde.

Sylvie Clerfeuille - Amazon.fr
 

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