So lately, I've been raving about this album to anyone who will listen:
It's a brilliant, gentle fusion of the classical Brazilian sound with African influences. It makes uses of musicians and instruments from several West African countries and was part recorded in Senegal. Santana was an artist in residence on a UNESCO programme in Dakar and this album is, I think, the end product of that process. It's sung in Portuguese and a couple of African dialects. There's a strong Candomble influence (Brazilian "voodoo" loosely speaking - or more accurately, the Brazilian form of the African diaspora religions, with their origins in Nigeria). I suspect that the whole album is a recapping of candomble cosmology. Anyway, I think it's brilliant, it's been tragically critically overlooked, and I want more people to hear it thus this thread.
Feel free to add on.
It's a brilliant, gentle fusion of the classical Brazilian sound with African influences. It makes uses of musicians and instruments from several West African countries and was part recorded in Senegal. Santana was an artist in residence on a UNESCO programme in Dakar and this album is, I think, the end product of that process. It's sung in Portuguese and a couple of African dialects. There's a strong Candomble influence (Brazilian "voodoo" loosely speaking - or more accurately, the Brazilian form of the African diaspora religions, with their origins in Nigeria). I suspect that the whole album is a recapping of candomble cosmology. Anyway, I think it's brilliant, it's been tragically critically overlooked, and I want more people to hear it thus this thread.
Feel free to add on.
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