Babeti Soukous

Tabu Ley Rochereau | Format: Audio CD

Product Details

• Audio CD (May 7, 1993)
• Number of Discs: 1
• Label: Real World
• ASIN: B000000HO2
• Also Available in: Audio CD  |  Audio Cassette  |  Vinyl  |  MP3 Download
• Average Customer Review: 3.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (2 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #148,300 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)
  • #18 in Music > World Music > Africa > Soukous
  • #21 in Music > World Music > Africa > Zaire & Congo

Track Listings

1. Presentation

2. Kinshasa

3. Sorozo

4. Linga Ngai

5. Moto Akokufa

6. Nairobi

7. Seli-Ja

8. I Need You

9. Amour Nala

10. Tu as Dit Que

11. Sentimenta

12. Pitie

13. Mosolo

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars So-so later album by an African pop legend, November 30, 2002

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DJ Joe Sixpack (...in Middle America) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Babeti Soukous (Audio CD)

Tabu Ley Rocherau is one of the greatest African pop stars of the 20th Century, with a career that dates back to the late 1950s, and spanned well into the age of modern world music. This live album suffers from '80s-style "world beat" production: too-clean, too-rock drums and simplified melodic runs as prime culprits. Some icky, rock-flavored guitars as well. It is kind of interesting to hear Rocherau play in a live setting, but this stuff is nowhere near as captivating as the music he made in earlier decades, and the presentation as a whole has a kind of simplistic, hurried, Ziggy Marley-ish "gee whiz!" feel to it.

3.0 out of 5 stars Babeti's Review., December 9, 2001

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Bobo (Ikperejere, Uboma Nigeria.) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Babeti Soukous (Audio CD)

I've listened to so many soukous music, this is not as good as the better ones that I've listened to. It lacks power and soukous style and rhythm. Some might find different than I did, but that just my opinion about it.