Sinikan

1. Sinikan (Prejudiced Word)

2. Découragé (Discouraged)

3. Ni Mafélé! (Go on, Look!)

4. Famou (I Understand)

5. Ndiwa Ndiwa (I'm Getting Ready to Go)

6. Djougouya Magni (Beware of Nastiness)

7. Até Tolama (Nothing Belongs to Me)

8. Gnangnini (Seeking Counsel)

9. Banandiou (The Baobab)

10. Promesse (The Promise)

11. It's a Man's Man's Man's World

12. Famou [Remix Dance]

Tracks:

Sinikan (Prejudiced Word)
DuragDiscouraged)
Ni Maf! (Go on, Look!)
Famou (I Understand)
Ndiwa Ndiwa (I'm Getting Ready to Go)
Djougouya Magni (Beware of Nastiness)
Atolama (Nothing Belongs to Me)
Gnangnini (Seeking Counsel)
Banandiou (The Baobab)
Promesse (The Promise)
It's a Man's Man's Man's World
Famou [Remix Dance]

Customer Reviews:

Great Songs, Great Arrangements and a Terrific Voice.......2003-01-14

The future of music is not in the US, which veers disasterously between thudding repititious rap, and belly button pop. Instead, look elsewhere, music lovers. In particular, Africa has really cultivated an intensely brilliant culture that produces the most compelling contemporary music to be found anywhere. There are the reformed and glorious Orchestra Baobab, Youssou N'Dour and Saleif Keita, all of whom have released stellar CDs in the past few months. The brilliant Mailian guitarist, Habib Koite, is preparing his next release, Cesaria Evora is finally getting the recognition she so truly deserves, and add to that estimable list
Sinikan Bambino Diabate, who has just turned in the first truly great CD of 2003.
From the opening blast, this Cd jumps, dances and insinuates its rhythms with a seductive percolation. Sinikan is descended from a long line of griots, and in his case, seeks not so much to harken back with his inherited gifts but cast his vision forward. As you listen, you'll hear tonalities shared with N'Dour, but with a much more in your face arrangement style that grabs you out of your seat. The dance rhythms are terrific. His French producer has mastered a terrifc blend of instruments that give this all the excitement of Motown at its best. Sinikan's messages are those of love, culture and concern for the future of his community. His sinewy way with his lyrics leave you exhilaratingly captivated.
Africans seem to have found a way to take rap and hip-hop out of its formulaic reptition and breathe life into it. Youssou has done it, and here you'll find Sinikan raising the artistic bar far beyond the imagination of its American purveyors. Elements of jazz, r & b and that quintessential African guitar sound fill in the palette of colours at his disposal, and Sinikan makes the most of all of them.
This is a great CD. Go out and buy it NOW! Hopefully a support tour is launched. In fact, it's time a number of these terrific musicians got a chance to demonstarte to North America that not all is lost. Hope exists. And what a wonderful sound it has!

Modern Malian pop.......2003-01-09

Ornate, expansively arranged West African music, very much in keeping with the world-pop crossovers of Youssou N'Dour, Habib Koite, Toumane Diabate and others. Bambino is one of the younger Guinean griots, son of singer Marlama Samoura, a popular vocalist during the late 1960s. Bambino's approach is pretty adventurous and varied; on with a hip-hop flavored tune, "Promesse," a duet with Parisian-based Senegalese rapper Diziz La Peste. Kinda slick, but kinda nice!

Camilla Nylund Sings Sibelius, Debussy, Britten & Kuula

Average customer rating:

Mixed bag

Camilla Nylund Sings Sibelius, Debussy, Britten & Kuula

Manufacturer: Hanssler Classics
ProductGroup: Music
Binding: Audio CD

General | Classical | Styles | Music

General | Opera & Vocal | Styles | Music

Tracks:

Varen flykatar hastigt, Op. 13,4: Fruhling schwindet eilig
Saf, saf, susa, Op. 36,4: Schifrohr
Den forsta kyssen, Op. 37,1: Der erste Kuss
Var det en drom?, Op. 37,4: Wares ein Traum
Flickan kom ifran sin alsklings mote, Op. 37, 5: Madchen kam vom Stelldichein
Norden, Op. 90,1: Der Norden
Tujotin tilehen kauam, Op. 2, 2: Lange starrte ich ins Feuer
Sinikan laulu, Op. 16A, 1: Leid der sinikka
Sinipiika, Op. 23, 1: Die Walidmaid
Purjein kuutamolla, Op. 31A, 1: Segelfahrt im Mondschein
Beau Soir: Schoner Abend
Romance
Les Cloches: Die Glocke
Paysage sentimental: Die empfindsame Landschaft
Voici que le Printemps: Heir ist der Fruhling
Let The Florid Music Praise!, Op. 11: Lasst eure Musik erbluhen
Now The Leaves Are Falling Fast: Jetzt fallen schenll die Blatter
Seascape: Seestuck
Nocturne
As It Is,Plenty: Welch ein Uberfluss

Customer Reviews:

Mixed bag.......2005-06-09

This is one of a series of recitals from Hanssler in their Vocal Series published in 1999, and which I have to confess I picked up in a bargin bin. Alan Blyth gave it a warmish review in the Sept 99 Gramophone, as warm as possible given the absence of texts and translations in a full price recital. Though I note the Ingeborg Danz Brahms CD in the same series does have texts.

Comparing the Sibelius settings with Soderstrom, Otter and Karneus I found that Camilla Nylund didn't particularly have much to say that these Swedish singers didn't - perhaps since all the Sibelius settings on this CD are of Swedish poets. I can't compare Nylund with fellow Finns Monica Groop and Soile Isokoski. What I bought the CD for were the four settings of Sibelius' contemporary Kuula - but again, without texts had the same vaguely lost feeling as the Gramophone reviewer. A much better buy would be the recital "From the Heart of Finland" by Mattila reviewed March 97 Gramophone 3/1997, Ondine ODE892-2, which includes some different Kuula songs, or Camilla Nylund's Kilpinen CD on CPO, both of these with texts and translations for those of us who don't speak Finnish.

I don't have any particular comment on the Debussy or Britten settings.