FatalaGongoma Times

Reissue of "Fatala" album released in 1988.

A WOMAD Production for RealWorld
Guinea: Exhilarating Music from West Africa - the traditional roots of blues, jazz and po

Track 1.  An opening rhythm danced by feticheurs wearing their masks
Track 2. The chant of a woman labouring in the fields, sung to her baby whose crying prevents her from working
Track 3. A traditional rhythm to which African women present the beauty and skill of their dancing
Track 4.  The song of young people who live in freedom, and revolt against anything that threatens their liberty
Track 5. A rhythm played as the young men return to their village after six months of initiation rituals
Track 6. The love song of a boy from the town of Kamsar for a girl (Temedi) from the town of Boke 
Track 7. The rhythm played during the"deathwalk" of an important chief of the tribe of Limbadji, as the body is returned to the place of its birth
Track 8. The rhythm which can only be danced by a man who has proved himself capable and brave at a time of great suffering
Track 9.  A song in the Sousou dialect where the elder of the family argues with the young girls: "It's time to go to sleep now!"

Recorded and mastered at Real World Studios, Box, Wiltshire, 1988
Design and Art Direction @ Assorted images
All tracks published by Womad Music Ltd/EMI Virgin Music Ltd (only Womad Music Ltd on back cover)

℗ 1988 Womad Records Ltd
© 1993 Real World Records Ltd/Virgin Records Ltd
Manufactured, distributed, marketed by Virgin Records Ltd
Manufactured in Germany

1. Timini 2:01
2. Yêkêkê 5:22
3. Maanê 3:04
4. Gongoma Times 4:22
5. Seoroba 5:14
6. Boké (N'Yaraloum-Ma) 6:45
7. Limbadji Toko 4:50
8. Söhkö 3:53
9. Soisisa 4:11

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