Fleck, Bela / Throw Down Your Heart
Album: Throw Down Your Heart   Collection:World
Artist:Fleck, Bela   Added:Mar 2009
Label:Rounder Records  

A-File Activity
Add Date: 2009-04-19 Pull Date: 2009-06-21 Charts: Reggae/World
Week Ending: Jun 21 Jun 14 Jun 7 May 31 May 24 May 10 May 3 Apr 26
Airplays: 3 1 2 1 4 5 2 4

Recent Airplay
1. Mar 22, 2018: Melange
Throw Down Your Heart
4. Oct 07, 2014: Global Warming
Tulinesangala
2. Feb 25, 2017: Music Casserole
Pakugyenda Balebauo
5. Nov 10, 2012: Music Casserole
Ah Ndiya
3. Dec 06, 2015: Breakaway Bluff
Zawose
6. Jul 07, 2012: Bouge Mood
Pakugyenda Balebauo

Album Review
Don Farrell
Reviewed 2009-04-19
Banjo and the pursuit of its origin in Africa with an ALL STAR cast of African Musicians. ALL TRACKS ARE FANTASTIC. Documentary film about the trip is playing now.
1: 2:51 female call & response with fem. chorus, fast, locked hand clapping
WOW! percussion, minimal banjo noodling at intro then more cool banjo picking
2: 4:16 male vocal/wail, fast banjo, fiddle & guitar (D'Gary from Madagascar)
3: 3:50 Fem vocal ( Oumou Sangare from Mali) with chorus, great banjo
4: 2:30 fast scat vocal intro , thumb piano & banjo
5: 2:51 fast M&F call & response vocals, cool fast song, goes lower towards end
6: 6:16 very cool jam with a large group of fantastic African All Stars, kind of
a wall of sound with vocals & instruments
7: 5:08 slower banjo with percussion, beautiful sound, The title comes from
the name of a town in Mali when the slaves saw the ocean and knew they were
never going home again.
8: 4:00 slower beautiful picking and scat style male vocal, applause
9: 2:55 HUGE list of musicians, fast 15 foot marimba with a huge pit under it
played by 8 people with lots of percussion
10: 4:33 fast male vocal/wail with intense banjo (traditional & 2 string) picking
****11: 3:20 very cool unusual vocal harmonizing, with minimal banjo
12: 4:31 cool cool picking with beautiful vocal chanting
****13: 2:58 African Blues, banjo, bowed lyre & toe percussion, fast
14: 3:25 thumb piano band, great banjo picking, beautiful vocals
15: 4:19 Instrumental, marimba with percussion & banjo
16: 3:51 mellow string picking, banjo & guitar
17: 5:05 soft & low fem vocal, Oumou Sangare, sparse banjo noodling
18: 7:14 thumb piano & banjo, @2:13 male vocal/chant. D  Farrell   04/2009

Track Listing
1. Tulinesangala   10. Buribalal
2. Kinesta   11. Zawose
3. Ah Ndiya   12. Ajula - Mbamba
4. Kabibi   13. Pakugyenda Balebauo
5. Angelina   14. Jesus Is The Only Answer
6. D'gary Jam   15. Matitu
7. Throw Down Your Heart   16. Mariam
8. Thula Mama   17. Djorolen
9. Wairenziante   18. Dunia Haina Wema/Thumb Fun