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TIKEN JAH FAKOLY
Coup de Gueule
Release date :
10-01-2004
Label :
Barclay
Tracklist :
1. Plus rien ne m'étonne
2. Quitte le pouvoir
3. Alou maye
4. Tonton d'America
5. Démé
6. Ca va faire mail
7. Kuma
8. Où veux-tu que j'aille (feat. Mouss & Hakim – Zebda)
9. L'Afrique doit du fric
10. Sauver
11. Imadjigui
12. Allah
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REVIEW
Review written by Sébastien Jobart
on Tuesday, November 09th 2004 - 42 532 views
The fifth album from Tiken Jah Fakoly, "Coup de gueule" follows on naturally from the rest of his discography. After "Mangercratie", "Cours d'Histoire" and "Françafrique", this descendant of a family of griots has not laid down his arms.
"I come and I sing in an African language, but I'm backed by Jamaicans. Together, that makes one single force," Tiken Jah Fakoly told us about his trip to Jamaica to record this "Coup de Gueule". It is not the first time Tiken Jah has gone there to record. But his collaboration with local heavyweights (Sly & Robbie, Mickey Chung, Tyrone Downie, Robbie Lyn and Skully) on this album, produced by Tyrone Downie, is a splash of pure sound. Alongside them, Tiken Jah's own musicians play traditional African instruments (balafon, n'goni and Mandinka guitar), as well as backing vocals and horns. This line-up of Jamaicans and Africans sounds just as comfortable on heavy reggae rhythms as on Afro beats (Imadjigui, Dèmè).
Sustained fire
The very round sound serves Tiken Jah Fakoly's lyrics perfectly. From the opening of the album with Plus rien ne m'étonne and its warm horns, we find the militancy that made him famous: "If you leave me Chechnya, I'll leave you Armenia, if you leave me Afghanistan, I'll leave you Pakistan (…) They've carved up the world, nothing surprises me any more." Far from betraying disillusion, the track is the prelude to this outcry, the first salvo of sustained fire. For the demands become explicit on the catchy Quitte le Pouvoir (featuring the fiery Didier Awadi of the Senegalese hip hop group Positive Black Soul). Addressed to Laurent Gbagbo but also to every leader who does not deserve to be in power, this song could well become an anthem for demonstrations. The haunting L'Afrique doit du fric, driven by the insistent question "So Africa owes money, does it?", denounces the hypocrisy of African debt (see interview). The dramatic Sauver is a cry for help: "Come and save us, they want to kill us, come and save us. / When the rulers and the rebels fight / the innocent always pay the price / They kill them, rape them, drive them out / and nobody cares." And even when the rhymes become more linear and repetitive (Ca va faire mal, which warns of the potential of a united Africa), the lyrics lose none of their force.
Musical bridge
Tiken Jah Fakoly's militancy, which has become his trademark in the media, should not make us forget the poetry of his lyrics. The melancholy Tonton d'America (co-written with Magyd Cherfi of Zebda) conceals a suppressed anger: "Say what you like, but when we are naked / even the devil is welcomed. (…) He took all the coffee, he took all the copper / He left without telling us what to do!" Alou Maye, a little ballad with its polished arrangements and delightful organ, or the gentle Allah that closes the album, show that Tiken can tame kindness as well as anger.
Creating a musical bridge between Jamaica and Africa was Tiken Jah Fakoly's ambition. "Bob Marley said that reggae must return to the source," Tiken told us. "This return has to be made together, with the Jamaicans." On this road, Tiken Jah leads the way. |
la misere au quotidien est une realite.sommes nous pret a vivre ca!!! pusa a tous.
Salut kôrô,merci beaucoup pour ce que tu fait pour l'Afrique.Quant j'écoute tes sons je me retrouve dans la vie.continu ainsi car nous sommes avec toi.merci kôrô.que Allah t'acorde longue vie et te benisse.
tiken jah on e avk toi kek ken soi ls circonstances
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