Herbie Hancock And Foday Musa Suso - Village Life (1985) CD Rip

09 Oct, 07:28
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Artist: Herbie Hancock And Foday Musa Suso
Title: Village Life
Year Of Release: 1985
Label: Sony Music[SRCS 7172]
Genre: Jazz, World Fusion, Future Jazz
Quality: FLAC (image + .cue,log,scans)
Total Time: 40:43
Total Size: 269 MB(+3%)
WebSite: Album Preview

Tracklist

1 Moon/Light 7:57
2 Ndan Ndan Nyaria 9:50
3 Early Warning 2:50
4 Kanatente 19:59

Herbie Hancock And Foday Musa Suso - Village Life (1985) CD Rip

personnel :

Herbie Hancock: Yamaha DX-1 Synthesizer, Yamaha RX-11 Digital Drum Machine, Producer
Foday Musa Suso: Kora, Talking Drum, Vocals

This quiet, lovely record, in which the Gambian kora virtuoso Foday Musa Suso is given equal billing, was generally ignored when it came out, probably because it fit no one's preconceived idioms -- be they jazz, funk, MTV, or even world music. The only performers are Hancock on a detunable Yamaha DX-1 synthesizer and drum machine and Suso spinning his webs of delicate sound on the zither-like kora, vocalizing a bit and playing a talking drum -- all in real time in a Tokyo studio. The results are absolutely mesmerizing, with Herbie aligning himself perfectly within Suso's unusual, complex rhythmic conceptions and folk-like harmonies. On the 20-minute "Kanatente," Hancock does introduce some of his own advanced harmonic ideas, and he contrasts and interweaves them with Suso's deceptively simple lines in a splendid jam session that eventually ends in a dance that can only be described as Gambian funk. This music generates the same feeling of ecstatic well-being as an Indian raga -- and even hardcore jazz fans may find themselves seduced against their will.~Richard S. Ginell

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