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Bembeya Jazz National was the best and most famous of Conakry's dance bands in the first heady days of the Guinea republic, and Bembeya Jazz represents their triumphant comeback after a decade in the wilderness. Their music in the 60s was imbued with Afro-Cuban rhythms and effects, but those were less an import than a restitution of what had always been theirs, since it's generally assumed that those rhythms had been carried west by Mande slaves. This new album, starring Sekou "Diamond Fingers" Diabate's guitar plus the high tenor of Salifou Kaba, is as exhilarating a return to form as Orchestra Baobab's recent comeback, and should put Bembeya back where they belong at the top of the Afro-pop charts. An infectiously easy swing permeates everything, with a lovely balance of instrumental and vocal timbres. The guitar work is beautifully spare, the horns blare in soft harmony and each track offers comfortably roomy scope for each soloist to take centre stage in turn. --Michael Church
Bembeya Jazz National was the best and most famous of Conakry's dance bands in the first heady days of the Guinea republic, and Bembeya Jazz represents their triumphant comeback after a decade in the wilderness. Their music in the 60s was imbued with Afro-Cuban rhythms and effects, but those were less an import than a restitution of what had always been theirs, since it's generally assumed that those rhythms had been carried west by Mande slaves. This new album, starring Sekou "Diamond Fingers" Diabate's guitar plus the high tenor of Salifou Kaba, is as exhilarating a return to form as Orchestra Baobab's recent comeback, and should put Bembeya back where they belong at the top of the Afro-pop charts. An infectiously easy swing permeates everything, with a lovely balance of instrumental and vocal timbres. The guitar work is beautifully spare, the horns blare in soft harmony and each track offers comfortably roomy scope for each soloist to take centre stage in turn. --Michael Church
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