| Bassy, Blick / Leman |
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| Album: | Leman | Collection: | World | |
| Artist: | Bassy, Blick | Added: | Jun 2009 | |
| Label: | World Connection | |||
| A-File Activity |
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| Add Date: | 2009-11-22 | Pull Date: | 2010-01-24 | Charts: | Reggae/World |
| Week Ending: | Jan 24 | Jan 17 | Jan 3 | Dec 27 | Dec 20 | Dec 13 | Dec 6 |
| Airplays: | 2 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 2 | 1 | 1 |
Recent Airplay
| 1. | Jan 29, 2010: | The Rent Party Mintaba | 4. | Jan 19, 2010: | At the Cafe Bohemian Mintaba | |
| 2. | Jan 26, 2010: | At the Cafe Bohemian Nlela | 5. | Jan 19, 2010: | Something Old, Sometthing New, Something Blue Nlela, Nlal, Masse, Maria, Africa | |
| 3. | Jan 26, 2010: | Something Old, Something New, Something Blue Africa | 6. | Jan 12, 2010: | At the Cafe Bohemian Mintaba |
| Album Review |
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| Don Farrell Reviewed 2009-11-23 | ||
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LEMAN (means mirror in Bassa) mellow velvety throated male vocals with hints of bossa nova, Jazz & soul. Hails from Cameroon, lives in Paris & sings in Bassa (one of 260 languages in Cameroon). the Kora, calabash & double bass are featured. Can't go wrong with any track 1: 3:05 poppy, mellow male vocal, female chorus 2: 4:21 poppy, mellow male vocal, chorus 3: 3:42 poppy, mellow male vocal, chorus 4: 4:31 slow, mellow male vocal, chorus 5: 4:09 slow to mid, vocals are a bit faster 6: 1:20 very nice kora instrumental 7: 3:02 faster, more bigger percussion, nice playing 8: 4:10 slow to mid, male vocal, chorus, nice flute ***9: 3:31 fast, upbeat, vocals are a faster, very nice groove 10: 3:57 mid to faster, big bass, cool percussion nice harmonizing. 11: 1:11 kora & percussion instrumental, nice groove, too bad so short 12: 2:52 upbeat fast nice vocal/mellow wail 13: 3:21 mid to faster vocals & chorus 14: 3:42 mid tempo, guitar & vocals 15: 0:48 kora & percussion instrumental, nice groove, too bad so short D Farrell 11/2009 | ||
| Track Listing |
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| 1. | Africa | 8. | Bolo | |||
| 2. | Maria | 9. | Mintaba | |||
| 3. | Masse | 10. | Yesu | |||
| 4. | Nlal | 11. | Song Boum | |||
| 5. | Donalina | 12. | We | |||
| 6. | Sebenikoro | 13. | Zappa | |||
| 7. | Nlela | 14. | Ikou | |||
| 15. | Nkolmesseng | |||||