Rafiki Jazz - More Big Muzik from Over There (2009)
Artist: Rafiki Jazz
Title: More Big Muzik from Over There
Year Of Release: 2009
Label: Konimusic
Genre: World; Folk
Quality: FLAC (tracks)
Total Time: 50:03
Total Size: 286 MB
WebSite: Album Preview
‘Rafiki Jazz..the best of British’ (Songlines Magazine Top of the World)Title: More Big Muzik from Over There
Year Of Release: 2009
Label: Konimusic
Genre: World; Folk
Quality: FLAC (tracks)
Total Time: 50:03
Total Size: 286 MB
WebSite: Album Preview
'A stunning, virtuosic, internationalist show (BBC Folk Singer of the Year Nancy Kerr)
'Close your eyes, it's the music you'd expect to hear in heaven' (Dimitris Diamadis: Talking Gigs)
'The most diverse band in the UK, a host of musicians spanning four continents with migrant & refugee artists at its heart and immense sincerity and compassion coursing through their songs' (Sashwati Mira Sengupta: Counterpoint Arts)
Latest album release 'Har Dam Sahara' (TUGCD1106) is 'a love-letter to this intricate world, its beauty and complexity' (Rachel Jackson: World Music Network). The album's Urdu title translates as 'in life's every moment there's always support', and the songs reach across the faiths, languages & cultures of the collective's musicians, drawing on the beauty and poetry of Pakistan & Senegal's mystic Sufi traditions and ancient Middle Eastern Coptic, Arabic & Hebrew roots.
Singers & Players:
Sarah Yaseen: Urdu & Punjabi vocals, percussion
Avital Raz: Hebrew & Hindi vocals, tanpura, guitar
Mina Mikhail Salama: Coptic vocals, oud, ney & kawala flutes, duduk
Kadialy Kouyate: Mandinka & Wolof vocals, kora, sabar
Cath Carr: guitar, steelpans
Tony Koni: bass guitar, sabar
Johnny Ball: tabla, derbuka
Guery Tibirica: berimbau, pandeiro, gumbe
Vijay Venkat: violin, bansuri
www.rafikijazz.co.uk
01. Rafiki Jazz - Kelefa Jah (7:04)
02. Rafiki Jazz - HiLife Mama (6:21)
03. Rafiki Jazz - Keme Burama (6:45)
04. Rafiki Jazz - Hebu-Heshima (3:29)
05. Rafiki Jazz - Mingi Mingi (6:23)
06. Rafiki Jazz - Jallo Jerry (6:40)
07. Rafiki Jazz - Mali Sajo (6:12)
08. Rafiki Jazz - Muhogo Wa Jango'mbe (7:08)