| Dur-Dur Band / Volume 5 |
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| Album: | Volume 5 | Collection: | World | |
| Artist: | Dur-Dur Band | Added: | May 2013 | |
| Label: | Awesome Tapes From Africa | |||
| A-File Activity |
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| Add Date: | 2013-05-19 | Pull Date: | 2013-07-21 | Charts: | Reggae/World |
| Week Ending: | Jul 14 | Jun 30 | Jun 23 | Jun 16 | Jun 9 | Jun 2 | May 26 |
| Airplays: | 2 | 2 | 1 | 4 | 2 | 3 | 1 |
Recent Airplay
| 1. | May 22, 2014: | Sunshine Aporeia Halelo | 4. | Jul 11, 2013: | Home Free Halelo | |
| 2. | Dec 13, 2013: | Aporeia recap of crazy a.d. 2013 Amiina Awdaay | 5. | Jun 27, 2013: | Pierre Menard's Summer Jamz 2k13 Halelo | |
| 3. | Jul 11, 2013: | The Doldrummer Amiina Awdaay | 6. | Jun 23, 2013: | feral pop frenzy Dooyo, Amiina Awdaay |
| Album Review |
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| Diego Aguilar-Canabal Reviewed 2013-05-19 | ||
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Irresistibly catchy, groovetastic soul-funk from Somalia (!), sourced from an obscure cassette dating to the 80s, back when Mogadishu was stable enough to sustain a thriving music scene. This is relentlessly danceable, summery and lighthearted, from a “private” band that had the privilege to sing about quotidian themes like love, instead of being forced to sing political propaganda. There’s a certain Caribbean tenderness in the horns, while crooning vocals sound like the best Asian soul Sublime Frequencies could ever dig up, think Fela Kuti with a Calypso twang. This is freaking amazing. RIYL The Funkees, The Funk Ark, Funkadelic, Toots & the Maytals, James Brown, Awesome Tapes From Africa 1. (1:31) Sparse funky guitar, a beat, trippy echoed band introductions 2. (5:41)** cool happy bassline drives a summery anthem 3. (6:28) Seriously crucial 50s-style Ska guitar, steel drum-sounding keyboards, Headhunters bass groove, even I’m tempted to dance now 4. (4:44)* slick guitar, wry spy-theme horn lines, midpaced grooving to a somewhat melancholy feel 5. (4:52) squiggly, bluesy guitar licks in a steady groove, horns respond, vocals sound somewhat sadder than the joyous trumpets 6. (6:42)** minor-key guitar theme leads the horns through a maze, female vocals wail over some dark funk 7. (6:02) Happy horns! Simple grooving, crooning baritone vox, some scorching guitar solos toward the end! 8. (6:51) cool syncopated guitar lines, somewhat serious-sounding horn melodies, male and female vox trade off 9. (7:06)* Seriously DIRTY rhythm section groove, old-timey sound system shuffle 10. (3:55)*** sharp, driving funk with keen guitar leads and a rushed pace, bluesy syncopated perfection like the best of Parliament or James Brown, with vocals wailing from a minaret 11. (3:50)** Damn, more funk, just as sexy! Warbling female vox with shouting chorus, another fine tune for struttin’ | ||
| Track Listing |
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| 1. | Dur Dur Band Introduction | 6. | Garsore Waa Ilaah | |||
| 2. | Hayeelin | 7. | Aada Fududey Iga Ahow | |||
| 3. | Halelo | 8. | Tajir Waah Ilaah | |||
| 4. | Fagfagley | 9. | Dholey | |||
| 5. | Ilawad Cashaqa | 10. | Amiina Awdaay | |||
| 11. | Dooyo | |||||