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The 150 Greatest Albums Made By Women
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Moussoiou is acknowledged as a classic of international music. The instrumentation is percussion-rich and full of the harmonies and effects of West African string instruments and is augmented very subtly by a very lucid and sympathetic production. And Oumou's voice is, well, spectacular. It's quite unnecessary to have a translation of the Wolof--this is a spectacular vindication of the notion that music transcends barriers of culture and language like no other kind of art, and the emotion and the beauty of the sound coming from Sangare's voice demands all your attention. Reading the translations on the sleevenotes is the icing o
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Manufacturer: Elektra/Asylum
Release date: 21 September 1999
Number of discs: 1
EAN: 0769233002129 UPC: 769233002129
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Release date: 21 September 1999
Number of discs: 1
EAN: 0769233002129 UPC: 769233002129
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The 150 Greatest Albums Made By Women (150 music items)"Moussolou was the potent debut album from Malian singer Oumou Sangaré, who was just 21 years old when she recorded it in Abidjan, Ivory Coast. Her lyrics upended social norms: She criticized arranged marriages, polygamy and women's general subservience to men — and promptly sold a reported 200,000-plus copies of the cassette across West Africa. (World Circuit picked it up for European distribution in 1991.) But Sangaré's debut was not just notable for its topicality. By that point, she alrea"