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The album opens with a typical juxtaposition of old and new--the sound of Keita's piercing, high-pitched wail over a sustained synthesizer chord form "Sina," part of his 1987 debut solo album "Soro." Although Keita sings in his native Bambara language, his powerful, eerie high tenor has the impact of a warning siren no matter what tongue the listener understands. His compositions are full of lush harmonies (voices, synths, horns, kora, guitars) set to rippling polyrhythms, but Keita's urgent lead vocal always cuts through everything else.
In addition to three songs from Soro, two from 1989's "Ko-Yan" and one from "Amen," this compilation includes three songs (previously unreleased here) from the Steve Hillage-produced soundtrack for "L'Enfant lion." The rarest, most exciting cut, though, is "Mandjou," the jazzy 12-minute vamp in honor of Guinean statesman Sekou Touré, it was recorded in Cîte d'Ivoire in 1978 and became Keita's first big hit throughout Africa. --Geoffrey Himes
ARTIST: Salif Keita CATEGORY: Music MANUFACTURER: Mango MEDIA: Audio CD TRACKS: Yele N Na, Waraya, Tono, Kuma, Nyanafin, Karifa, N B'i Fe, Lony # OF MEDIA: 1 UPC: 016253991026
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I SAY AMEN TO THIS! Salif Keita won international acclaim in 1987 with his masterpiece Soro, a brilliant fusion of the Malian musical tradition with modern technology. The follow-up, Ko-Yan, was disappointing since his voice seemed to have been sacrificed to insensitive production. It's therefore a pleasure to report that Amen was a great return to form, featuring highly melodic, hook-filled tracks with a sense of space, variety and danceability in which that mellifluous voice comes into its own. The tracks address contemporary issues such as the quest for democracy in West Africa in the song Waraya, but there are also beautiful love songs like the boyant Yele N Na, the rousing Karifa and the trilingual N B'i Fe. Throughout the album, producer Joe Zawinul harmoniously reconciles Keita's voice with breezy arrangements and the technical expertise of the jazz fusionists who assisted Keita in creating this rivetting slab of sound.