Rough Guide To African Roots Revival, The

Rough Guide to African Roots Revival [COLL] WORLD
VARIOUS ARTISTS 2012
Traditional African music with modern and improvised instruments
****1: 5:03 mid to fast guitar, bass & percussion, male vocal/al most wail, features the satonge, a milk can resonator with a guitar string and plastic pipe pitch adjustment.
****2: 4:04 fast Bedouin male vocals with scavenged desert junk (milk & jerry cans etc.) homemade instruments along with 5 stringed lyre.
****3: 8:02 fast mbira with male voc/wail & chorus with whistling.
***4: 5:02 slow bluesy, bass ngoni (lute), vocal/wail
****5: 4:30 fast fast percussion (amplified mbiras (thumb pianos)) & male vocals
6: 4:40 fast light percussion (sticks), fast vocal/chorus
***7: 3:28 mid fast lamellophones and vocal call & response, mild trance
****8: 3:59 fast fast trance frantic dance, percussion, casio organ and vocals
9: 3:38 fast string picking on a five liter oil can guitar with fast male vocal
***10: 5:41 mid fast wood & metal lamellophone, male voc, fem chorus call & response
****11: 5:06 mellow mid fast percussion & biram (5 stringed instrument shaped like a boat) male call & response
*****12: 7:06 slow & low intro then fast trance dance number, 25 piece ensemble, thumb pianos, e guitars with cool distortion, vocal/wails. D  Farrell 09/2012

CD#2 already in the library as "Introducing Kenge Kenge" 06/2007
***1: 9:19 fast fast benga rhythm from Kenya, percussion. one string fiddle & gong and flute, male vocal/wail.
***2: 10:26 fast, percussion & one string fiddle (orutu), male vocal/wail
3: 7:44 fast, percussion, flute, male voc
***: 8:17 mid fast percussion, orutu, flute & male vocals nice perc last half.
5: 7:39 fast percussion, orutu, flute & male vocal
***6: 7:29 slow, orutu,very nice harmonizing male vocals, perc. picks up speed, flute, pounding perc.
7: 10:42 a cappella intro. then fast percussion, orutu, male vocals, flute
8: 7:13 a cappella intro. mid fast percussion, orutu, male vocals