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"I Want to be Free" from Manze Dayila
Sample Track 2:
"Ibo" from Manze Dayila
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Best World Music of 2008

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Manze Dayila broke into the world music scene with an audible boom this year. Most of us had never heard of this Haitian songstress, who first arrived in the States two decades ago on a ramshackle raft from Haiti, 9 months pregnant. Since then, she's been bringing the sounds of Haitian vodou to the New York City subway, but she's come out of the dark and into the sun ("Sole" means "Sun" in Kreyol), and thank goodness she has - she's incredible! Sole includes a nice variety of songs: in "Simbi D'lo" and "Papa Loko," Dayila summons powerful vodou spirits in her husky contralto. "That Feeling" is decidedly urban, and scattered instrumental interludes throughout the album add just a touch of folkiness.

-- Megan Romer 12/29/08 >> go there
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