構成数 | 1枚

合計収録時間 | 00:53:07

JOKO was nominated for the 2001 Grammy Award for Best World Music Album. Personnel includes: Youssou N'Dour, Peter Gabriel, Victoria Chidid (vocals); Kamil Rutan (guitar, programming); Johnny $, Jimi Mbaye, Pape Oumar Ngom, Kevin Armstrong (guitar); Thierno Koite (soprano saxophone); Mac Fallows, Ibrahia Cisse, Madou Diabate, Paul Mirkovitch, George Acogny (keyboards); Habib Faye (keyboards, bass); Simon Richmond, Jerome Lemonnier (Keyboards, programming); Pino Palladino (bass); Youssoupha Camar, Manu Katche, (drums); Mbaye Dieye Faye, Troupe Casamance (percussion); Asasane Thiam (tama); Felix Sabal-Lecco, Andy Shafte (programming); Vinia Mojica, Tracey Amos (background vocals). Producers include: Youssou N'Dour, Johnny $, Mac Fallows, Pierre Bianchi, Habib Faye. Engineers include: Phillippe Brun, N'Diaga N'Dour, Rod Beale. Personnel: Pape Oumar Ngom (guitar); Dominic Miller (acoustic guitar); Simon Richmond (keyboards, programming); George Acogny (keyboards); Manu Katche (drums); Mbaye Dieye Faye (percussion); Andy Shafte, Felix Sabal-Lecco (programming). Recording information: Studio Guillaume Tell, Paris, France; Studio Xippi. Photographer: Jonathan Mannion. Arranger: Jimi Mbaye. Ever since Youssou N'Dour started turning heads in Senegal with his band Super Etoile, he's made the leap to world music eminence thanks to back-breaking touring and the support of famous fans like Peter Gabriel. Following a six-year sabbatical from releasing music in the US, N'Dour made a millennial comeback with JOKO (THE LINK), an amalgam of West African, Caribbean, and Western influences. Backed by a coterie of Senegalese studio musicians, N'Dour uses his soaring vocals to great effect on stellar cuts like the hypnotic mbalax-infused "Mademba (The Electricity Is Out Again)," and the joyously uplifting "Birima." Elsewhere, N'Dour's Gabriel appears on "This Dream," a number notable for Super Etoile guitarist Jimi Mbaye making his Stratocaster sound like a traditional Senegalese xalam (five-stringed guitar). Other notable supporting players include sax player Thierno Koite, whose Branford Marsalis-like tone gives the rhythmically dark "Miss" a forlorn edge, and the percussionists who supply an upbeat aura to the tribute to Senegal's peasants that is "Beykat." Leading the charge throughout is N'Dour, whose pure, agile vocals are particularly effective on the infectious "Liggeey" and "My Hope Is in You," an eternally optimistic bilingual song.

録音 | ステレオ (Studio)