Les Amazones de Guinée

• Wamato [Sterns, 2008] A

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Wamato [Sterns, 2008]
The first album in 30 years by these female militia members, most of whom started making music together in the '60s, and boy have they been saving it up. There's abundance in the three lead vocalists alone: a soprano who slices the air like few African-American counterparts; a near baritone whose hectoring interludes suggest a mom bawling out her kid from an apartment window; and for normality's sake, a rich growler in the big mama mold. Trancey desert guitar patterns are cut by a sour two-sax horn section, sweet chorales offer relief, and they even have tunes. "Mères d'Afrique," the best and last is called, and sweet mother, I believe. A

See Also

• Les Amazones de Guinée: Wamato [2008-04-01]