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World Music Central, CD Review >>
Bloomington, Indiana, USA - South African star, Miriam Makeba, has a new album out titled Reflections. The new CD is the first Makeba album in four years. It opens with a summery version of “Iyaguduza,” followed by “Pata Pata,” a new version of the hit song that played a particularly large role in making Makeba a household name. Makeba has always enjoyed singing in other languages, and “Mas Que Nada” and “Xica Da Silva” are bossa nova classics from the pen of Brazilian songwriter Jorge Ben.
Other highlights include an arrangement of her hit “The Click Song” and the Pan African-inspired “African Convention,” written by Hugh Masekela (with whom Makeba was briefly married) and Stanley Todd. “I’m in Love with Spring,” is an orchestrated composition from Bill Salter, her bass player in the ‘60s, and “Love Tastes Like Strawberries” is a ballad from the same era.
Miriam Makeba’s Reflections (HUCD 3082), released in time to celebrate the historic ten-year anniversary of the end of apartheid, is the latest installment in the Heads Up Africa series, a collection that spotlights some of Southern Africa’s finest vocalists and instrumentalists. 05/29/04 >> go there
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