Bela Fleck - Throw Down Your Heart [FLAC] TQMP

Bela Fleck - Throw Down Your Heart, Tales From the Acoustic Planet Vol. 3: Africa Sessions 2009 Brought to you by TQMP The Quality Music Project Overview: Bela Fleck took his banjo and traveled across Africa including visits to Uganda, Mali, Tanzania, and South Africa. At each location Bela jammed and recorded with the local stars, including kora master Toumani Diabate, guitarist D'Gary, vocalists Oumani Sangare and Baba Maal, ngoni player Baekou Kouyate, djembe player Madou Sanogo. This brief list of African stars only scratches the surface of what probably amounts to about 100 different African musicians that play on the various tracks on this album. Each track features a different group of musicians and is recorded in a different locale. The end result is a magnificent fusion of the banjo and traditional African music. There is just an enormous amount of material here with a total of 18 tracks. With so much diversity of material you are likely to find a track two that disagree with your tastes, but overall its hard to imagine any fans of Bela Fleck and/or traditional African music not loving this CD. My only criticism is it is too bad that legendary kora master Toumani Diabate only plays on one track. However, the two are currently touring the together, so if your lucky and they come to your town, you can see more of their amazing chemistry in concert. Song Highlights: D'Gary Jam - this is track features an all-star cast included Toumani Diabate and his Malian band, D'Gary on guiar, plus great vocals. Throw Down Your Heart - Written by Bela Fleck on his way to Africa during a layover in Amsterdam, this is the best song writing on the CD. A great new Bela Fleck tune played with a small group of musicians from Mali. Ah Ndiya - This track is highlighted by the gorgeous vocals of Oumani Sangare. Pretty and moving. -- user review @ amazon.com Tracks 01 - Tulinesangala 02 - Kinetsa 03 - Ah Ndiya 04 - Kabibi 05 - Angelina 06 - D'Gary Jam 07 - Throw Down Your Heart 08 - Thula Mana 09 - Warenziente 10 - Buribalal 11 - Zawose 12 - Ajula-Mbamba 13 - Pakugyenda Balebauo 14 - Jesus Is The Only Answer 15 - Matitu 16 - Mariam 17 - Jorolet 18 - Dunia Haina Wema-thumb fun EAC log and CUE sheet included Format: FLAC (Free Lossless Audio Codec) http://flac.sourceforge.net/index.html Enjoy, seed and inhale! Legalise it! Pastafari Cubensis http://thepiratebay.se/user/pastafari/ Proud Member of the Church of the Flying Spaghetti Monster http://venganza.org You too can search for evidence the Flying Spaghetti Monster is the Lord and Master of the Universe http://setiathome.berkeley.edu

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rippervanwinkle (2009-10-20)

Great album, thanks. I only had this in mp3 before so a lossless release is very welcome.
The Oumou Sangare track Ah Ndiya is a very different version from on her Moussolo album, a real treat. It's great to hear Toumani Diabate jam on this album as well...a complement to the live recording at Telluride.
BBC Radio's World Routes is doing some programmes on Appalachian music at the moment so they discuss quite a lot on the West African origin of the Banjo and other instruments (and also the actual music). Well worth a listen. If Demonoid ever reappears pm me if you're interested in hearing it.

 pastafari (2009-10-21)

Thanks! I just found it at thebox.bz ;)

bigrich2007 (2010-02-09)

Thanks for this amazing album!