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01. DIRTMUSIC - Atars of Gao (feat. Super 11)
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02. DIRTMUSIC - Narha (feat. Aminata Wassidjé Traoré)
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03. DIRTMUSIC - Movin' Careful
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04. DIRTMUSIC - Justice
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05. DIRTMUSIC - Ballade de Ben Zabo (feat. Ben Zabo)
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06. DIRTMUSIC - Red Dust (feat. Samba Touré)
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07. DIRTMUSIC - Clouds Are Cover
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08. DIRTMUSIC - Starlight Club
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09. DIRTMUSIC - Blind City
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10. DIRTMUSIC - Day the Grid Went Down
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11. DIRTMUSIC - September 12 (feat. Ibrahima Douf)
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ARTIST
DIRTMUSIC
TITLE
Lion City
FORMAT
CD
LABEL
GLITTERBEAT
CATALOG #
GB 011CD
GB 011CD
GENRE
WORLD
RELEASE DATE
4/1/2014
Midline pricing.
Dirtmusic
's previous album
Troubles
(GB 005CD/LP) was recorded in Bamako, Mali in the dark days of the 2012 political upheaval. A propulsive collection of cinematic Afro-rock,
Troubles
for the most part rose out of improvisational sessions involving
Hugo Race
(
Fatalists
,
Bad Seeds
) and
Chris Eckman
(
The Walkabouts
) of Dirtmusic and the nimble, balafon-driven
Ben Zabo
band. Malian luminaries like
Samba Touré
,
Zoumana Tereta
,
Aminata Wassidjé Traoré
, and
Virginie Dembelé
from the
Rokia Traore
band, brought exhilarating vocal and instrumental contributions to the collective.
Troubles
was not a mere construct or hybrid, but rather something deeply collaborative and genre-busting.
Louder Than War
wrote: "an incisive and unique journey in sound... this album is rock, it's roll, its funk, it's African, it's an aural delight."
Lion City
, the new Dirtmusic album, is culled from the same Bamako sessions as
Troubles
but offers a decidedly different atmosphere and ambiance. While the Ben Zabo band is still the core collaborator, the textures and tempos are slower and more opaque. Organics and electronics intertwine and unfold unpredictably. There are less guitars and more liquid sounds. The outward frustration and fear documented on the previous album has given way to something more insular and pensive. The echoing space between the notes is emphasized and subsequently so are the voices and the texts. Samba Touré provides a vocal and lyric for "Red Dust," a song that enshrines the contemplative mood of the album. Over a swirling dubscape he intones: "How can we reconcile and forgive? How can we bring peace to those that hate us? Yet we have no choice. We need to stop fighting." While Samba Touré, Ben Zabo and his band, and Aminata Wassidjé Traoré previously appeared on
Troubles
,
Lion City
also features an inspired team of new collaborators:
Tamikrest
members
Ousmane Ag Mossa
(guitar),
Cheikhe Ag Tiglia
(bass) and
Aghaly Ag Mohamedine
(percussion) appear on the bluesy and meditative "Movin' Careful." This is the first time the two groups have collaborated since Dirtmusic's
BKO
album from 2010. The iconic Takamba band
Super 11
, from northern Mali, exchange thorn-like trance sounds with Hugo and Chris on the album's opening number "Stars of Gao."
MC Jazz
, an up and coming Bamako hip-hop artist adds a fiery incantation to the mostly instrumental "Day the Grid Went Down."
Ibrahima Douf
, a young singer from Senegal, provides a stunning vocal on the album's final track "September 12." The 21st century claims to be borderless. A world of hyper-communication and instant nostalgia that is both celebrated and feared. On
Lion City
Dirtmusic stayed clear of such theorizing and just got on with the practice. The collective joy they found in making this music is what mattered most.
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