| Koite, Habib & Bamada / Afriki |
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| Album: | Afriki | Collection: | World | |
| Artist: | Koite, Habib & Bamada | Added: | Oct 2007 | |
| Label: | Cumbancha | |||
| A-File Activity |
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| Add Date: | 2007-10-28 | Pull Date: | 2007-12-30 | Charts: | Reggae/World |
| Week Ending: | Dec 30 | Dec 16 | Dec 9 | Dec 2 | Nov 25 | Nov 18 | Nov 11 | Nov 4 |
| Airplays: | 1 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 1 |
Recent Airplay
| 1. | Apr 16, 2012: | No Longer at Ease Namania | 4. | Jul 01, 2009: | A Bit of Everything Massake | |
| 2. | Feb 13, 2012: | Afro Beats Namania | 5. | Aug 16, 2008: | New World Disorder Massake | |
| 3. | Aug 25, 2009: | At the Cafe Bohemian Namania | 6. | Aug 09, 2008: | New World Disorder N'ba |
| Album Review |
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| Sadie O. Reviewed 2007-10-29 | ||
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Habib Koite & Bamada – Afriki Reviewed by Sadie O., 10/22/07 Beautiful Malian singing and finger picking, enhanced by indigenous instruments, notably talking drum. In Bambara (Malian language). The word that keeps occurring to me is “sweet” – pretty and loving and mellow… Even if you know Bambara, I very much doubt you’ll find any FCCs. I like 10 best, but it’s all lovely. 1. **gorgeous finger-picked guitars, sweet and mellow love song. Song builds quite a bit, but stays mellow and lovely. Female chorus. 2. *more sweet and lovely guitar, complex but subdued percussion. 3. **pretty and mellow, but with strength. Horn section features Pee Wee Ellis. Fine message of African pride and self-sufficiency. Terrific bit of talking drum. 4. ***midtempo, very swingy groove with thumb piano and cool harmonica, more fine talking drum. Simple love song. 5. ***bouncing midtempo Reggae African style, song of love to his mother. Whistling solo! 6. *midtempo and mellow love song to Mali, harmonica solo. Male chorus. 7. ***swingy, loping groove with traditional violin. Another song of indigenous self-sufficiency. 8. *very mellow and sweet with a bit of orchestrated string, vocal harmonies and female chorus. Very lush, about friendship. The talking drum really shines here. 9. ***very traditional sound, with antelope horns and hand drums. Interesting lyrics, about a man telling marriage brokers not to try to set his daughter up with a worthless man. 10. ****uptempo and not so mellow, nice vocal harmonies, loping beat, and lots of traditional instrumentation. About not spoiling children. Heh! Kids do chorus. 11. *solo guitar. Mellow and beautiful, of course! | ||
| Track Listing |
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| 1. | Namania | 6. | Mali Ba | |||
| 2. | N'tesse | 7. | Barra | |||
| 3. | Africa | 8. | N'teri | |||
| 4. | Fimani | 9. | Nta Dima | |||
| 5. | N'ba | 10. | Massake | |||
| 11. | Titati | |||||