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Album

River: The Joni Letters

Label: Verve Music Group
Released: 2007
Track listing: Court and Spark; Edith and the Kingpin; Both Sides Now; River; Sweet Bird; Tea Leaf Propechy; Solitude; Amelia; Nefertiti; The Jungle Line.

Album

Virgin Forest

By Lionel Loueke

Label: ObliqSound
Released: 2007
Track listing: Prelude to Rossignol; Rossignol; Prelude to Vivi; Vivi; Kponnon Kp

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Article: Album Review

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.

Song of the Day

Rossignol

April 4, 2007

Album: Virgin Forest
By Lionel Loueke
Label: ObliqSound
Released: 2007
Duration: 5:24

Album

In A Trance

By Lionel Loueke

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.

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Lionel Loueke: In a Trance

Read "In a Trance" reviewed by John Kelman

by John Kelman
December 6, 2005

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 ...