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LA Weekly, CD Review >>
Dobet Gnahoré, Ashley Maher at Temple Bar If sweetness and light is all you seek in your Pan-African musical dish, don't bother sound-checking Dobet Gnahoré or her new CD, Na Afriki. But if you crave emotional breadth and unfettered soul, fierceness leavened with tenderness, angry sociopolitical rants balanced with gentle heartstring pulls, then sup from Gnahoré's potent sonic stew. Brought up in an artists community in Ivory Coast, she not only packs a multilingual vocal wallop (seven African languages and counting) but can bust some serious warrior-princess moves. Still in her 20s, a new contender on the African diasporic scene, Gnahoré's got game. Ashley Maher seems poised to break through to the wider world too. The L.A.-based, Afro-inspired singer-songwriter?s two early-90s Virgin albums will be reissued on iTunes, while Boul Bayekou, a song cowritten with and performed by Youssou N'Dour, is tearing it up on YouTube and down in Dakar, Maher's recording-and-dancing destination next month. (Tom Cheyney) 09/20/07 >> go there
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