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Franco - Rough Guide to Franco: Africa's Most Legendary Guitarist (2001) Neko Case - The Tigers Have Spoken (2004)
Part: 1 : Franco - Rough Guide to Franco: Africa's Most Legendary Guitarist (2001)
Part: 2 : Neko Case - The Tigers Have Spoken (2004)
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Artist : Franco
Album : Rough Guide To Franco
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Year : 2001
Genre : World
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Review
by Thom Jurek
- All Music Guide
Finally there is an overview in the West of the great Franco, father of the OK Jazz style, literally the most innovative, diverse, and prolific guitarist in the history of recorded music from the continent of Africa. Franco originally hailed from Kinshasa, Zaire (now called the Democratic Republic of Congo), and this set chronicles his major stylistic developments and shifts from 1956 -- the seminal "Merengue" is included here -- to his final single, 1987's "Attention Na Sida" (Beware of AIDS).
But beginnings and endings don't begin to tell the story of how Franco's restlessness pushed him into unknown territories of six-string exploration. Tonal notions were of paramount importance in forging new musics from the ruins of the old, or extrapolating folk melodies in the process of generating pop music. While it's true that Rough Guides can be faulted for not breaking their own precedent for such an artist and issuing a box set instead of 12 tracks from over 150 albums and well in excess of 1,000 songs, single discs are their m.o.
What makes Franco so important, especially in this day and age, is not his considerable technical prowess as a guitarist, but as a cultural synthesist. He alone is responsible for the modern associations that are called to mind when one speaks the hyphenated word "Afro-Latin." For evidence, sample the track "Aya La' Mode," from 1962-1963, a pop tune that has all the tradition inherent in Cuban sons and boleros yet offers in its backbeat percussion the entire history of Congolese folk music.
Next up is the saucy "Finga Mama Munu" from 1966, a send-up to all the "mamas" Franco has been with. Its mariachi swagger meets the percussive guitar picking of King Sunny Ade's juju and the township jive that would emerge in South Africa a decade later. But the set goes on and on, carrying and cross-referencing trends and genres from all over the African and Latin worlds, erecting entire architectures of popular song and dance that for their sheer musicality are cultural landmarks for where miscegenation was occurring and when.
And it all feels good; check out the guitar break on the 14-minute "Mario," where a quartet of three-note figures wind around each other, syncopating each other until they switch harmonies in the middle. There is also the badassed "Motindo Na Yo Te," where merengue, son, and Afro-pop were blended to create the African rhumba. There are interesting collaborators here as well, such as the phenomenal Sam Mangwana from Tabu Ley and vocalist Mulamba "Mujos" Joseph. In all, this set reveals that, despite his early death at the age of 51, Franco was without a doubt the dominant force in creating popular music in Africa that bridged all of its styles and genres to offer something truly universal, something truly original, and, above all, something truly mind-blowing. Rough Guides: We need the box set.
Tracklisting
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01 (03:06) - Merengue
02 (03:09) - Motindo Na Yo Te
03 (03:11) - Aya La' Mode
04 (03:37) - Finga Mama Munu
05 (06:42) - Infidelite Mado
06 (05:21) - Likambo Ya Ngana
07 (04:51) - Où Est Le Sérieux
08 (11:01) - Tailleur
09 (05:51) - Kinshasa Mboka Ya Makambo
10 (14:20) - Mario
11 (07:53) - Chacun Pour Soi
12 (08:47) - Attention Na Sida
Playing Time : 77:49
Total Size : 143 MB
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Part: 2 : Neko Case - The Tigers Have Spoken (2004)
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Year : 2004
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Review
by Mark Deming
- All Music Guide
In the press release that accompanies Neko Case's 2004 live album, The Tigers Have Spoken, the singer (and her record company) insist quite strongly that this isn't meant to be a stopgap release on the way to her next studio project. To be blunt, Case protests a bit much on this issue -- an album featuring two re-recorded originals and five covers out of 11 tracks is carrying an awful lot of padding for something intended to be a proper "new" release. But if The Tigers Have Spoken is really intended to keep fans occupied until Case finishes her next project, she thankfully hasn't abandoned her standards of quality control along the way, and delivers some splendid music on this disc.
Recorded over the course of three gigs in the spring of 2004, The Tigers Have Spoken features Case backed by fellow gifted Canadians the Sadies, whose web of deep, lonesome twang fits Case's repertoire like a glove, with Jon Rauhouse sitting in on pedal steel with his usual grace and flawless feel, and Kelly Hogan and Carolyn Mark contributing backing vocals that are little short of glorious. But the reason Neko Case is headlining over this stellar cast is because she has one of the finest voices to emerge from pop music in recent memory, and she's in firm command of her instrument on these performances. Allowing herself more room to rock than on 2002's Blacklisted, Case rips it up on covers of classic tunes by Buffy Sainte-Marie, Loretta Lynn, and the Shangri-Las, and "The Tigers Have Spoken" and "Hex" show Case isn't saving all her good new songs for the next album. Maybe Case is biding her time with The Tigers Have Spoken, but she sure isn't wasting it -- if it's a relati! vely minor effort, it still sounds like the work of a major artist, and there's lots of pleasure to be found in it.
Tracklisting
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01 (2:30) - If You Knew
02 (2:33) - Soulful Shade Of Blue
03 (4:59) - Hex
04 (3:25) - Train From Kansas City
05 (2:41) - The Tigers Have Spoken
06 (2:11) - Blacklisted
07 (2:09) - Loretta
08 (3:36) - Favorite
09 (2:49) - Rated X
10 (3:00) - This Little Light
11 (3:16) - Wayfaring Stranger
12 (1:07) - Tigers Are Noble
Playing Time : 34:16
Total Size : 72.6 MB
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