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Track Listings
| 1. Jailer |
| 2. 360 |
| 3. Bibanke |
| 4. Subway |
| 5. Fire On The Mountain |
| 6. Eye Adaba |
| 7. No One Knows |
| 8. Awe |
| 9. Peace |
| 10. So Beautiful |
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At first blush, it seems just possible that the heavy advance promotion about Asa might actually be true. This Nigerian singer-songwriter might actually be a twenty-first century Bob Marley, bringing together the best of Western and African music in a funky fusion that opens hearts and minds and paves the way for deeper understanding. That lasts about one minute on the opening track, Jailer, until the driving style Asa seemed to promise is drowned in a vapid aural slush.
The worst offender here is Eye Adaba a Yoruban ballad overwhelmed by an orchestral backing that would have seemed embarrassingly MOR on Heart Radio. But the clodhopping production by Cobahms Asuquo never lets up, hamstringing even the politically-driven first single Fire on the Mountain with a horribly mechanical rhythm track, phoned-in harmonies and glittery programming that seems blithely ignorant of the song's harsh message of a greedy humanity: ''fooling with a dead man's corpse''. Asuquo's offences are too numerous to mention, and might be best summed up as the equivalent of an Artex-obsessed plasterer, or a child scribbling felt-tips over a rare book of illustrations. The model here would seem to be Macie Gray, but these arrangements would have still seemed like a pale imitation ten years ago.
Asa is clearly a talented writer and musician with a great voice (she has already opened for Beyonce and Snoop Dogg). It's to be hoped that she will break free of her (mis)management, ignore the siren-song of commerce, and live up to her rhetoric. Depressingly, however, she is currently being approached by MTV to take the role of 'ambassador for Africa', which would seem to go hand-in-hand with her stated aim ''to show the world that something beautiful and positive can come out of the black continent''. Really? You don't say! A missed opportunity... --Tim Nelson
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8 of 8 people found the following review helpful
Format:Audio CD
This girl is superb, unique and reminds me of India Irie and Bob Marley together. She is not like any of them because she is unique in her own right but she writes soulful, meaningful songs that touches your soul not just LOVE LOVE and senseless music we listen to nowadays that does not add any value to our lifes but lust and filt.
This is music and I think everyone should buy this album. It is highly recommended. Check out Fire on the Mountain talking about the problems in Africa especially the Niger Delta problem of Oil exploration in Nigeria.
Kudos Asa.
This is music and I think everyone should buy this album. It is highly recommended. Check out Fire on the Mountain talking about the problems in Africa especially the Niger Delta problem of Oil exploration in Nigeria.
Kudos Asa.
6 of 6 people found the following review helpful
Format:Audio CD
I have listened to a lot of soul singer and I think that this one take's the cake!
I got the album as a present from by brother on by way back to England, and I think it's the best thing to come out of Nigeria with regards to music.
My friends here are loving all the songs on the album my favourite one is called- When I'm crying (writing in Yoruba on the album)
I got the album as a present from by brother on by way back to England, and I think it's the best thing to come out of Nigeria with regards to music.
My friends here are loving all the songs on the album my favourite one is called- When I'm crying (writing in Yoruba on the album)
3 of 3 people found the following review helpful
Format:Audio CD
I've got to say - fantatsic.
Ignore the BBC review - anyone with any sensibility will love this album from start to finish
Ignore the BBC review - anyone with any sensibility will love this album from start to finish
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Most Recent Customer Reviews
There was never a monument to a critic
I don't normally write reviews but I was so annoyed by the quite unnecessary slating of this album. Yes, it is a little commercial but it is a fine debut of an artist who shows... Read more
Published 9 months ago by Audiophile 58
music that needs to be heard
oi, hear you all, listen to this. Sometimes you come across something that you just got to share, well this is one of those times.
Published on 20 Feb 2010 by Mr. Paul Johnston
Excellent, find myself humming it all the time
I really like this album. I'd never heard of Asa until recently when I heard a track while watching a hoopdance video on u-tube and thought the music was good and not something I... Read more
Published on 30 July 2009 by Jo
Amazing Nigerian artiste!!!!!
I stumbled on Asa's music by chance while browsing through some youtube videos. I was shocked to find out that the artist singing was Nigerian. Her music was so mature. Read more
Published on 12 July 2009 by Adewale Owoeye
Great
Great Album .I first heard it in Kenya.Then bought my own copy.I play it all the time i Love every track.
Published on 7 Feb 2009 by Marci
Nothing short of excellent
Uniquely talented Asa delivers wonderfully on this album.
I have purchased copies and given them to people as gifts because it is something I am proud to share. Read more
I have purchased copies and given them to people as gifts because it is something I am proud to share. Read more
Published on 28 Jan 2009 by Ikponmwosa Ero
Excellent
Asa's début album is as good as it can get. I must say that a friend literally forced me to buy the CD in Lagos Nigeria but I never regretted. Read more
Published on 4 Dec 2008 by Mazumdi Kzizongera
Excellent
This is a great CD. It is sung in two languages, English and Yoruba, but you don't need to understand either to be able to appreciate the great melody of this album. Read more
Published on 28 Aug 2008 by our-jo
What can i say........
I first came across this diva, in Nigeria last 2 years and since then i have fell in love with her music. Read more
Published on 25 May 2008 by 'keem Onikoyi
The BEST
I absolutely love this album. Would recommend it to anyone who love soul music, of african origin also. Read more
Published on 24 May 2008 by A. Abdul-raheem
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