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Lionel Loueke: Virgin Forest
by Terrell Kent Holmes
Guitarist/singer Lionel Loueke's Virgin Forest blends West African rhythms with standard jazz idioms, boiling down the music to its soul-catching essentials. Loueke sings and scats in Fon and Mina, languages from Benin and Mali, and his vocals and guitar playing are so seductive that one doesn't need to understand either to be drawn in.
Rossignol
Album: Virgin Forest
By Lionel Loueke
Label: ObliqSound
Released: 2007
Duration: 5:24
In A Trance
Label: ObliqSound
Released: 2005
Track listing: Nonvignon; Benny's Tune; In a Trance; Mivakpola; Gbeto; Fifa; Nagbe; Okagbe;
Be-Nin-Bop; Boum-Boum!!!; Always Will Be; A Prayer for Peace.
Lionel Loueke: In a Trance
by John Kelman
When Benin-born guitarist/vocalist Lionel Loueke appeared at this summer's Ottawa International Jazz Festival, he was a real highlight amongst the entire group of stellar young players in trumpeter Terence Blanchard's band. His solo spot, where he used looping and harmonizing devices to create a veritable mini-orchestra with just one voice and guitar, illustrated how technology can ...
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