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RASTA GOVERNMENT

Rasta Government
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    CD - 15.00 €
  • Date de sortie
    Friday, 13 May 2011


After having signed a first album in Africa in the Manjul’ studio and a second in Paris in 2009 («Rappel A l’Ordre»), the following step of Takana Zion should definitively be Jamaica. To accompany him, Steven Stewart and Sam Clayton convened the elite of the musicians of Kingston: Sly Dunbar on the drum, Sticky Thompson on the percussions, Robbie Linn on keyboards, etc. We find on this record ten tracks with at once an organic and modern sound, as this bright guitar on «Give Thanks To Jah», or the magnificent flown away of brass instruments on «Rastafarian Government». Between two roots pearls, Takana also dares the crossover funk («My Music»). The session of studio with Capleton will stay it best memories of his Jamaican adventure («The Glory»). On a lot of other tracks, Takana combines dynamics tunes and committed texts. He insists on the importance of his messages: «Rise Up» incites his people to straight up the head and to keep hope in this period of international crisis, while «Rastafarian government» plead for a nation which would rehabilitate brotherhood and freedom of expression between the citizens, so many essential values which seem to become blurred in countries called «developed». To the attention of his ancestors, he never forgets to sing in his native dialect, malinké («M’ Bife»).

  • Audio
    Track Play Length
    Piste 03

    3:41 min
    Piste 05

    5:01 min

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