22.12.08

Top Ten Albums 2008: Rokia Traoré - Tchamantche

MICROPSIA - Top Ten Album of the Year

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Though her three previous albums have created the impression of a conventional singer-songwriter, the middle-class Malian Traoré has been growing up away from the studio. This is her first project since her participation in a festival marking the 250th anniversary of Mozart’s birth and a tour celebrating Billie Holiday, and finally the breadth of her artistic vision has emerged fully formed in her music.

This is an album that should have been made by somebody holed up in New York, experimenting with Brian Eno, its contemporary global sound relying on traditional instruments such as kora, ngoni and even steel drums. Though she stumbles on a heavily accented The Man I Love, Traoré sounds ready to join the big league at last.



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