Bameli Soy

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Zairean soukous has rarely transcended the nine-minute title track of this 1984 album recorded during the apex of the era in M'bilia Bel's career when she shared the Orchestre Afrisa International with her husband, Congolese star Tabu Ley Rochereau (from whose backing chorus she had emerged). Bameli Soy demonstrates why Bel went on to become the first female African superstar: train-track drums, a singing horn section, and Tabu Ley's molten-gold guitar lines wrap themselves comfortably around Bel's dreamy, creamy voice. Singing in Lingala, Bel repeats this winning formula on the album's three other tracks. The energy level ebbs and flows sensuously as Africanized rumba rhythms oscillate in a never-ending dance trance. Yet it's the angular insouciance of Bel's beautiful pipes that always stands out. --Richard Gehr

Tracks:

Faux Pas
Lizanga Bambanda
Bameli Soy
Nazali Mwasi

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Zairean soukous has rarely transcended the nine-minute title track of this 1984 album recorded during the apex of the era in M'bilia Bel's career when she shared the Orchestre Afrisa International with her husband, Congolese star Tabu Ley Rochereau (from whose backing chorus she had emerged). Bameli Soy demonstrates why Bel went on to become the first female African superstar: train-track drums, a singing horn section, and Tabu Ley's molten-gold guitar lines wrap themselves comfortably around Bel's dreamy, creamy voice. Singing in Lingala, Bel repeats this winning formula on the album's three other tracks. The energy level ebbs and flows sensuously as Africanized rumba rhythms oscillate in a never-ending dance trance. Yet it's the angular insouciance of Bel's beautiful pipes that always stands out. --Richard Gehr

Customer Reviews:

SWEET CHILDHOOD MEMORIES.......2006-04-24

African music is not known or i should say little known in the US...

this Woman takes me way back in my childhood...My dad had all of her songs...her voice is suave, sweet and mesmerizing..yet she can move in the most effortless way..she is just a great artist.thanks Amazon for promoting African music....it's really hard for some of us here in the USA to obtain music from back home...... i'll buy this CD.
i was looking for it!

Bameli Soy by M'bilia Bel.......2001-06-07

Perhaps one of the less than a hand full of African female singers ever. She is just superb. Is it possible to listen to samples of her other CD's? If that is possible, I'll probably buy one of each of all of them. SHE IS G-R-E-A-T. I have always enjoyed her music from my native Liberia.

/s/ R. G. Evans

Awesome African Soucous Music.......2001-05-12

This disk is pure African soucous. The sweet voice of M'bilia Bel combined with the guitar playing of Ringo is indeed a pleasure to the ears. These upbeat rhythms take me back to some of my favorite memories of Africa.

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