| Traoré, Rokia / Beautiful Africa |
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| Album: | Beautiful Africa | Collection: | World | |
| Artist: | Traoré, Rokia | Added: | Sep 2013 | |
| Label: | Nonesuch Records | |||
| A-File Activity |
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| Add Date: | 2013-09-29 | Pull Date: | 2013-12-01 | Charts: | Reggae/World |
| Week Ending: | Dec 1 | Nov 24 | Nov 17 | Nov 10 | Nov 3 | Oct 27 | Oct 20 |
| Airplays: | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 1 |
Recent Airplay
| 1. | Mar 18, 2023: | Music Casserole N'Téri | 4. | Dec 14, 2016: | At the Cafe Bohemian Lalla | |
| 2. | Nov 20, 2021: | Music Casserole N'Téri | 5. | Mar 07, 2015: | Music Casserole N’Téri | |
| 3. | Mar 22, 2018: | Melange Lalla | 6. | Jan 03, 2014: | World Tour Kouma |
| Album Review |
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| Don Farrell Reviewed 2013-09-29 | ||
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Singer songwriter from Mali with a wonderful voice. Accompanied by guitars, n'goni (lute), drums, backup vocals and human beatbox. English translation of songs in booklet. ****1: 3:29 mid to faster, GREAT vocal, driving bass line, chorus ****2: 4:01 mid tempo, great fuzzed out guitar and fast singing 3: 3:29 fast, mostly a hard driving vocal & backup 4: 6:26 mid tempo, mellow, guitars 5: 4:08 mid to faster, in French, guitars with percussion, long fade ***6: 9:28 slow, throaty voc/wail, slow sparse plucked strings, fast singing & percussion at end ***7: 5:24 fast, mostly pounding beat, then plucked strings & voc 8: 3:35 fast, mellow pounding beat, vocal & spoken word in French & English ***9: 5:04 slow to mid, vocal (some English), bass & guitar | ||
| Track Listing |
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| 1. | Lalla | 5. | Mélancolie | |||
| 2. | Kouma | 6. | N'Téri | |||
| 3. | Sikey | 7. | Tuit Tuit | |||
| 4. | Ka Moun Kè | 8. | Beautiful Africa | |||
| 9. | Sarama | |||||