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Oumou Sangare Worotan (flac)

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Ripped from my own CD.

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Rip: flacs + cue + m3u + log No errors, AccurateRip all OK.

Scans: 300 DPI Cover (front and back), Tray Rear. 300x300 folder.jpg for media player album art.

The cover is old and not in great condition. Front looks good as new, rear and tray not so good.

Reviews:

Time Out
31st July 1996

Three albums into her deal with World Circuit and Oumou Sangare is beginning to look untouchable. Finding female artists able to survive the machinations of the music business as long as she has is rare in these 'enlightened' days, but one who survives, is outspoken and gets better with everything she releases?

'Worotan' is magnificent. Taking what everybody knew she was good at - the complex Wassoulou grooves, call-and-response vocals - she ups the ante and blows the competition out of the water. Like any great agit-pop writer, she knows messages are best conveyed on the backs of unbeatable tunes. Here are ten toe-tappers about the stigma of childlessness, the price of a bride (ten cola nuts), polygamy and undereducation.

Sangare's trademark vocal interplay has never been better than it is on live favourite 'Sabu'. On 'Denw' the rhythm is decorated awesomely by James Brown's horn section (lead by Pee Wee Ellis and featured on four tracks here) and the 'solo' is a truly gorgeous violin duet. But then, as if mocking the supposed highlights of the brilliance that has gone before, Djorolen', the closing track, is a drop-dead stunning ballad - basically Sangare with Nitin Sawhney on guitar - that could melt the snow on Kilimanjaro. It's as remarkable as it is unexpected. After three strikes, Oumou Sangare has knocked everybody else out of contention.

David Hutcheon


Amazon.co.uk Review
On Worotan, Oumou Sangare took her spectacularly expressive voice and the more traditional instrumentation of her previous albums and introduced musicians and influences from across the world. The acclaimed session players include former James Brown horn arranger and sax man Pee Wee Ellis, London-based bass player Michael Mondesir and Nitin Sawhney who brings some beautiful guitar work to the profound and moving tune "Djorolen" ["Anguish"). The lyrics look at the African woman and African society in its specifics and all its complications. The material transcends mere protest singing, though: we're talking swooning and passionate celebration and praise, even when the subject matter and the tone would seem to be dark. There's even a bit of super-tight organic funk going on on Worotan at times, recalling the likes of the Ethopian star Aster Aweke, who is perhaps the closest comparison anyone can draw to Oumou Sangare: powerful, passionate and utterly unforgettable. --Neil Bennun

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