Africa

Guitarist Leni Stern recorded in Mali fuses Western e guitar with African rhythms, percussion, plucked strings and vocals
1: 4:11 mellow percussion, e guitar female vocal/wail , chorus in Bambara ??? language
2: 6:11 (for Michael Brecker ) Leni vocal in English, e guitar noodling, chorus, . . .. mellow
****3: 6:30 Leni vocal in English, nice long e guitar notes, very nice fem vocal
in Bambara ??? , mellow. lots of plucked strings, fast percussion towards end
****4: 5:59 fast percussion, female vocal/wail, very nice percussion, great e guitar
5: 6:11 Leni vocal in English, mid tempo percussion, nice e guitar notes
****6: 5:10 (for Don Alias) slow, with George Brooks on sax, vocal/wail in Bambara?? very nice, kora
7: 5:07 Leni vocal in English, nice e guitar notes, mid to faster tempo
****8: 6:47 Leni vocal in English, faster percussion, vocals in Bambara ??? lots of fast plucked strings George Brooks on wailing sax, nice trance percussion/sax groove
9: 2:24 nice long e guitar notes & plucked strings minimal chorus
10: 5:04 Leni vocal in French & English, mellow
**11: 6:05 Leni vocal in English, breathy spoken word, vocals in Bambara ??? nice mellow kora, percussion groove, nice long e guitar notes. Nice vocals.
****12: 4:18 Leni vocal/spoken word in English about child soldier, talking drum percussion, faster
***13: 1:47 mellow instrumental D Farrell 11/2007