GEOFFREY ORYEMA
EXILE (1990)
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Oryema is one of a very small handful of artists that hail from Uganda that can be had on cd, and we are blessed for that.
His unique introspective style is what makes this album as special as it is. You can hear the intense melancholia and pain that he has endured in the lyrics, including his exile from his homeland, his yearnings for his land of Anaka, his attempts to soothe his widowed mother. It's all right there for the world to hear.
Add to his poignant vocals the additional help from both Peter Gabriel and Brian Eno, whose studio textures add immensely to the songs he works on, and the album is an instant gem.
1. Piny Runa Woko
2. Land Of Anaka
3. Piri Wango Iya
4. Ye Ye Ye
5. Lacan Woto Kumu
6. Makambo
7. Jok Omako Nyako
8. Solitude
9. Lubanga
10. Exile
4 comments:
This is such a wonderful album and a perfect marriage of voice and production. Thank you for including it among your already superb catalog of shared music.
Definitely a great album. I kept it around for some time (from the old Moodswings blog), but stopped listening to it after a few times. It's not a genre I like that much and not understanding the lyrics doesn't help me to feel close to the music either.
(On that note, I kinda understand French people around me who prefer French music and only listen to foreign stuff once in a while. Actually, the music of a handful of British bands is one of the reasons I went to study English in college, and ended up adopting the language.)
and what about the password??? please!
Did you even bother searching?
I don't think so... So, let me enlighten you by pointing out the right column... ;)
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