Customer Reviews

Bona Makes You Sweat

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The best bass guiterist, the best African vocals and best intertainer and he will indeed make you sweat 6/5

I found this CD to have a rather poor recording quality. I also think this is, overall, a weak musical production. Better invest your money in some of his excellent studio recordings, most notably "Munia- The tale". Or perhaps, "Reverence". Richard Bona is an amazing musician. But this particular product did not live up to my expectations.

Kickass album which only gets better the more you listen to it.
Grooves like crazy and I find it far more engaging than his studio stuff.

Bona, once again, is unsurprisingly perfect and unsurprisingly a master. Unsurprisingly great and unsurprisingly the best bassplayer out of what could be considered creme de la creme bass players and out of the new kind of bassplaying "a la circus" (as Wooten and even Miller). However, it is a pitty that a genius like Bona has to issue a life cd which adds nothing new at all, possibly because there are no new great ideas or possibly because he has learned to mantain or wishes to mantain a certain standard -something which is extremely difficult and for example may have brought Pastorius to death. Additionally, the concert recorded here is "dramatically" similar to the last two live concerts I have seen from him in Spain. Recently I re-discover other musicians who may have not been as perfect as Bona, but they brought up something new everytime they recorded a new album and even their only relative perfection makes them sound everytime new and renewing. At the end, when purchasing a cd like this, you have to ask yourselve if you want to listen to a masterclass, or you do wish to listen to music.