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Salif Keita
La Difference
Genres: International Music, Jazz, Pop

Track Listings (9) - Disc #1
1. La Diffrence
2. San Ka Na
3. Seydou
4. Gaffou
5. Folon
6. Ekolo D'Amour
7. Djl
8. Samiga
9. Papa

CD Details

All Artists: Salif Keita
Title: La Difference
Members Wishing: 1
Total Copies: 0
Label: Emarcy / Umgd
Original Release Date: 1/1/2010
Re-Release Date: 6/8/2010
Genres: International Music, Jazz, Pop
Style: Africa
Number of Discs: 1
SwapaCD Credits: 1
UPC: 042288240273

Synopsis

Album Description

2010 album from one of the best known names in African music, and his first album in four years. The album was produced by Patrice Renson, who has worked with M., Vanessa Paradis and Ben Ricour, and he gave substance to Salif's intentions with obvious efficiency; the Pop influences are more pronounced than before, yet fluidly performed. Joe Henry recorded, produced and remixed 'Papa' and 'Folon', two of the most moving titles on the album, both of them classics in Salif's repertoire, as is 'Seydou', actually a new version of the title 'Seydou Bathily', a standard from the days of the Ambassadeurs du Motel band in Bamako. 'Papa', particularly, contains traces of emotions that are universally profound, nuances of other pieces whose themes are often serious but where hope and joie de vivre triumph in the end.

CD Reviews

Indulgence!!

Sheriff Bah | 04/14/2010

(5 out of 5 stars)

"The best CD i've bought this year!!! am getting obsessed with it, in the car, at the office, at home, even my associates who never like any foreign music are singing along in the office when come to my desk. My kids love it too!!"

Highly recommended!

Midwest Book Review | Oregon, WI USA | 06/12/2010

(5 out of 5 stars)

"Salif Keita IS different from most Africans, in that he is albino and has suffered for it, as have other albinos throughout Africa. Profits from LA DIFFERENCE thus will go to Salif's charity to help albinos in Africa. Of course most listeners will not realize this, as the lyrics are not in English or any other European-based language. So why buy this recording? Because it's Keita's most musically realized recording yet, using traditional Malian instruments blended with Western instruments such as piano, electric guitar, but not the brass horns we heard on his early recordings. On some cuts there are Arab-sounding string sections or an oud, perhaps an accordion. Some of these tunes have been in Salif's repertoire for decades but are now done in a softer and more imaginative style. Salif Keita may have started out in a band whose whole purpose was to get people dancing, but now with LA DIFFERENCE and the last two albums that preceded it, Keita shows just how much he has grown as an artist, carefully weaving ancient and modern sounds from around the world into something new, yet deeply rooted and moving. Highly recommended!"