Rokia Traoré - Beautiful Africa (2013, Outhere Rec. # OH 023)
Rokia Traoré - Beautiful Africa
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Label/Cat#: Outhere Rec. # OH 023 | Country/Year: Germany 2013
Genre: Blues, Folk, World | Style: African
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Rokia Traoré - Beautiful Africa (2013, Outhere Rec. # OH 023)
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Rokia Traoré / Beautiful Africa
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EAC extraction logfile from 9. August 2013, 16:27
Rokia Traoré / Beautiful Africa
Used drive : PIONEER BD-RW BDR-206 Adapter: 0 ID: 2
Read mode : Secure
Utilize accurate stream : Yes
Defeat audio cache : Yes
Make use of C2 pointers : No
Read offset correction : 667
Overread into Lead-In and Lead-Out : No
Fill up missing offset samples with silence : Yes
Delete leading and trailing silent blocks : No
Null samples used in CRC calculations : Yes
Used interface : Native Win32 interface for Win NT & 2000
Used output format : User Defined Encoder
Selected bitrate : 1024 kBit/s
Quality : High
Add ID3 tag : Yes
Command line compressor : C:\Program Files\FLAC\flac.exe
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TOC of the extracted CD
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6 | 21:33.33 | 9:27.52 | 97008 | 139584
7 | 31:01.10 | 5:23.71 | 139585 | 163880
8 | 36:25.06 | 3:34.45 | 163881 | 179975
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DR6 -0.20 dB -8.97 dB 4:01 02-Kouma
DR9 -0.20 dB -10.89 dB 3:29 03-Sikey
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DR9 -0.20 dB -11.80 dB 5:24 07-Tuit Tuit
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DR10 -0.20 dB -13.31 dB 5:04 09-Sarama
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log date: 2013-08-13 17:17:28
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CD Info:
Rokia Traoré - Beautiful Africa
Label: Outhere Records
Catalog#: OH 023
Format: CD, Album
Country: Germany
Released: 2013
Genre: Blues, Folk, World, & Country
Style: African
Tracklist:
1 Lalla 3:28
2 Kouma 3:58
3 Sikey 3:28
4 Ka Moun Kè 6:25
5 Mélancolie 4:05
6 N'Téri 9:27
7 Tuit Tuit 5:23
8 Beautiful Africa 3:34
9 Sarama 5:02
Companies etc
Phonographic Copyright (p) – Tâma Productions
Copyright © – Tâma Productions
Licensed From – Tâma Productions
Recorded At – Toybox Studios
Mastered At – Loud Mastering
Distributed By – Indigo
Made By – www.HandleWithCare.de
Credits
Backing Vocals – Bintou Soumbounou, Fatim Kouyaté
Bass, Double Bass – Nicolaï Munch-Hansen
Design – Evan Gaffney
Drums – Sebastian Rochford
Guitar – Stefano Pilia
Guitar [Additional] – John Parish
Human Beatbox – Jason Singh
Mastered By – John Dent
Songwriter, Composed By – Rokia Traoré
Strings [N'goni] – Mamah Diabaté
Vocals, Guitar – Rokia Traoré
Notes:
p + c Tama under license from Tama for Germany and Austra
Distributed by Indigo
Recorded at Toybox Studio, Bristol, UK
Mastered at Loud
Barcode and Other Identifiers
Barcode: 4 047179 777223
Matrix / Runout: OH023CD AD08140-01
Label Code: LC 09273
Review by Thom Jurek
On Beautiful Africa, Malian songwriter and guitar slinger Rokia Traoré unleashes the fiery rocker she's been nurturing since her teens. On four previous offerings she established herself as a wildly inventive and diverse songwriter, most notably on 2008's Tchamantché. She recorded this set with producer John Parish in the U.K. He keeps her guitar and the n'goni right up front in his mix, just underneath her distinctive, supple voice. Her employment of a female backing chorus acts as both a call-and-response vehicle and as rhythmic and harmonic counterpart. Drummer Sebastian Rochford add weight, punch, and dimension as well. These nine songs are sung in French, Bambara, and occasionally English – sometimes in the same tune. The music walks the line between the celebratory, the tender, the angry, and the sorrowful. Despite its rock leanings, Malian folk traditions are ever present in its DNA – check "Kouma," where the vocals and droning desert blues accompanied by sparse percussion create the theme. Halfway through, Traoré's guitar screams through, distorted, frantic, and in the red. "Sikey"'s layered rock guitars, bassline, and drums create a staggered, syncopated groove, while Traoré and her singers' voices provide an alternate rhythm and dialogue. The taut breaks by Rochford and the haunting n'goni add ballast to her forceful, stinging six-string. Halfway through, a bridge offers a different melody, almost a different tune; it shifts the tempo and harmonic focus before returning to the main theme. The title track is damn funky. Traoré uses a wah-wah pedal and plays straight at Rochford's snare and hi-hat. He lays out numerous breaks – yet remains firmly in the pocket. When she sings "Intense as ever," there's a snarl in her words as she addresses the chaotic, troubling situation in her once peaceful homeland. "Ka Moun Kè," which follows, is a soulful African pop tune; it's grainy and infectious with killer guitar reverb and a hypnotic rhythm track. Parish keeps things raw and lively; the appearance of these tunes being played by a live band is ever present. For those who long for tradition, the ballads such as "N'Téri" and "Sarama" offer melodies whose roots are centuries old. "Samara" is among the most searing ballads in Traoré's songbook. While Beautiful Africa is her most "commercial" recording – as in, friendly to Western audiences – it nonetheless follows directly the explorations her music has articulated from the beginning. It feels like a natural step, consequently expanding the margins of Malian roots music and rock and pop simultaneously. 4/5 ~allmusicguide
