This six-track EP collects various mixes of Manu Chao's song "Politik Kills," a bouncy, reggae-inflected tune with a serious message. True to his eclectic, trans-genre approach, Manu Chao allows a handful of producers to interpret his song ...
Personnel: Carlos Herrero, Jose Manuel Gamboa, Amadou Bagayoko (guitar); Cheik Tidiane (keyboards).One of the most enigmatic and exciting figures in world music, Manu Chao makes each new release an event, via both his fiery, ever-expandi...
This six-track EP collects various mixes of Manu Chao's song "Politik Kills," a bouncy, reggae-inflected tune with a serious message. True to his eclectic, trans-genre approach, Manu Chao allows a handful of producers to interpret his song ...
Composer: Manu Dibango.Liner Note Author: Jean-Jacques Dufayet.Arranger: Manu Dibango.AFRICADELIC is the classic 1973 album composed and recorded in the span of one week by Manu Dibango, after the encouraging success of his monster...
Personnel: Carlos Herrero, Jose Manuel Gamboa, Amadou Bagayoko (guitar); Cheik Tidiane (keyboards).One of the most enigmatic and exciting figures in world music, Manu Chao makes each new release an event, via both his fiery, ever-expandi...
Liner Note Author: Graeme Ewens.Though flawed, this is a useful two-CD overview of Manu Dibango's recording career. Its arc encompasses pre-"Soul Makossa" material (when he was primarily known only in Africa) to much more recent recordin...
This CD opens with a veritable chestnut, the Mexican "Cielito Lindo," played by an African saxophonist and a Cuban son ensemble. The vocals are a bit hokey, yet it works. The idea to get together and record disparate material was born at a ...
What if George Clinton had been born in the motherland? AFRICADELIC: THE VERY BEST OF MANU DIBANGO brings together 15 incredible tracks of the artist's distinctive combination of funk/soul with African rhythms.This CD also contains a rem...
Liner Note Author: Graeme Ewens.Photographer: Graeme Ewens.A nice compilation of the ultra-varied career of Manu Dibango. The disc jumps from era to era comfortably, but hits upon almost every phase Dibango passed through (with the su...
Reissued in 2007, this excellent Manu Dibango album presents the revered African composer/saxophonist in his fruitful early-1970s era. On these pioneering tracks, Dibango fuses rhythms and melodies from his native Cameroon with funk, pop, a...
The first solo album released by the former frontman of Mano Negra, Clandestino is an enchanting trip through Latin-flavored worldbeat rock, reliant on a potpourri of musical styles from traditional Latin and salsa to dub to rock & roll to ...
Personnel includes: Manu Dibango, Herbie Hancock, Bernie Worrell, Wally Badarou, Mory Kante, Bill Laswell.While the music on Bao Bao dates back to 1984, the time of Dibango's studio work with Bill Laswell, conceptually the album is somet...