This 12-song, 67-minute compilation is devoted to the music of African musicians who have immigrated from their homelands to the United States. Specifically, it's devoted to African musicians who have settled in Seattle, WA, and Portland, OR, with five acts -- Wawali Bonane with Yoka Nzenze, Frank Ulwenya & Afrisound, Lora Chiorah-Dye & Sukutai, Kofi Anang, and Obo Addy (the best-known artist of the group) -- contributing two or three songs apiece. Although the experience of African musicians establishing themselves in ...
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This 12-song, 67-minute compilation is devoted to the music of African musicians who have immigrated from their homelands to the United States. Specifically, it's devoted to African musicians who have settled in Seattle, WA, and Portland, OR, with five acts -- Wawali Bonane with Yoka Nzenze, Frank Ulwenya & Afrisound, Lora Chiorah-Dye & Sukutai, Kofi Anang, and Obo Addy (the best-known artist of the group) -- contributing two or three songs apiece. Although the experience of African musicians establishing themselves in America is a nominal theme of this collection, there's little influence to be heard from American music. In fact, if you told people that these songs had been recorded in Africa by musicians who never left the continent, very few would be surprised. The musicians represent styles from various African regions: Zimbabwe, Kenya, the Republic of the Congo, and Ghana. The Afropop contributions of Bonane, Ulwenya, and Addy are competent and well recorded, though they don't really stand out -- in terms of either style or quality -- from typical, late 20th century Afropop. Care is taken, however, to represent some diversity within these performers' repertoires: One of Addy's tracks is a solo piece of voice and percussion, and one of Ulwenya's features only his voice and guitar. Chiorah-Dye & Sukutai play rhythmic music built around multiple marimba, mbira, and vocal parts, while Anang mixes xylophone and environmental sounds on "Ko (Forest)," and plays kalimba in collaboration with didgeridoo and flute players on "Hail." ~ Richie Unterberger, Rovi
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