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TIKEN JAH FAKOLY
L'Africain
Release date :
09-24-2007
Label :
Barclay
Tracklist :
01. L’Africain
02. Ouvrez les Frontières feat. 0Soprano
03. Où Aller où ?
04. Africain à Paris
05. Ayebaba
06. Soldier feat. Akon
07. Non à l’excision
08. Foly
09. Viens Voir
10. Promesses bla bla
11. Gauche Droite
12. Ma Côte d’Ivoire feat. Beta Simon
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REVIEW
Review written by Smaël Bouaici
on Saturday, October 13th 2007 - 35 803 views
The bard of Ivorian protest song has not deviated one iota from his line of conduct: denouncing, again and always, injustice and racism. With the track Trop de Bla bla, he shows that he has lost none of his verve. The Ivorian has gone back to Africa to record, on his label Fakoly Music, which he set up in the other land of the griots, Mali, Ivory Coast having become a little too dangerous for him. A return to the roots that allows Beta Simon to make the most of his media exposure: the Ivorian rasta, who sings in a language he invented, Baïssade, has become the label's first signing, and lays down his rhymes on the explicit Ma Côte d'Ivoire. Tiken Jah Fakoly even drags two unexpected guests in his wake: the Marseillais Soprano of Psy 4 de la Rime, on a track addressed directly to Brice Hortefeux, Ouvrez les frontières, and the polyglot of Senegalese origin Akon, who should add some nice value to the album on the US market, with the very good Soldier.
Fakoly's warm timbre still works wonders on his African-style reggae, exported by Alpha Blondy and giving pride of place to guitar and local instruments. Tiken Jah even attempts the perilous exercise of transposing Sting's hit Englishman in New York into French, with more or less success on Africain à Paris. He also takes the media to task, without mincing his words: "Come and see, you who talk without knowing". And even if, with this smoother mix, Tiken Jah Fakoly loses a little of the raw side of his reggae, it is to the advantage of his message, which is playing on every airwave.
Discover a series of 7 mini-documentaries illustrating the different stages in the production of Tiken Jah Fakoly's new album, from Bamako to Paris, via London, alongside the various people who took part in the project:
- PART 1/7
- PART 2/7
- PART 3/7
- PART 4/7
- PART 5/7
- PART 6/7
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Je veut devenir rasta quelles sont les procédures d adhésion
Paroles ridiculement simplistes et banales. "Ca va faire mal"...
L'africain reste pour moi une grosse deception. C'est l'album le plus nul de 2007 en matiere de reggae. Tiken a du potentiel mais cet album ne reflete pas cela.
big album de tiken jah mais quand meme en dessous de "coup de gueule" qui pour moi reste un CLASSIQUE , les morceaux sont excellents dan l'ensemble , j'ai hate de voir ca sur scéne ! une fois de plus tiken prouve qu'il est fait parti des grands du reggae et certainement le meilleur en afrique sans pour autant négliger le travail des alpha blondy , lucky dube (RIP) et les autres...
tiken jah fakoly il a raison de parlé come sa de l'afrique si el et come sa c acause des colonisateurs !
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