Name: Republique Amazone
Brand: Les Amazones d’Afrique

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Bonus disc: No

Catalogue number

lprw217

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Rough Trade Exclusive

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With Download.

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Format Music GB

Limited edition

Release date

2017-03-10

Signed copies

Signed copies: No

Supplier GB

PIAS

Tax rate GB

Standard:20

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0884108005385

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1 / Extended format: No / LP / Rough Trade Exclusive: No / Signed copies: No

cdrw217

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0884108005378

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1 / CD / Extended format: No / Rough Trade Exclusive: No / Signed copies: No

Artist

Les Amazones d’Afrique

Genre GB

African

Label GB

Real World

Recording studios established by [a11136]. (Legal entity behind the recording operations Real World Studios Ltd.)

Real World Studios is a residential recording studio in Box, Wiltshire, England associated with the [l4066] Ltd. record label, founded by [a11136].
Among many other unique facilities it has one of the world's largest control rooms, which allows special recording situations whereby musicians, engineers, producers and guests are no longer separated during the recording process.

Name variations as it appears on one or more releases:
- Real World Studios, England
- Real World Studios, Bath
- Realworld Studios
- The Bunker at Real World Studios (UK)
- The Bunker, Real World Studios (UK)
- The Bunker, Real World Studios, England
- The Bunker

Les Amazones d’Afrique are an all-female collective of West African musicians, campaigning for gender equality. Angelique Kidjo, Kandia Kouyaté, Mamani Keita, Mariam Doumbia (Manadou and Mariam), Mariam Koné, Mouneissa Tandina, Nneka, Pamela Badjogo and Rokia Koné hold a strong pedigree and this is a rare collaboration. Running on funk and blues with dabs of dub; ancient rhythms blending with their Western appropriated cousins, Les Amazones d'Afrique sound like an aural actuation of the new melting pot cities in Africa. Wah wah guitars, distorted thumb piano, dreamy chords and soulful singing over a pneumatic beat give way to the kind of Afrobeat best heard as the dawn rises in a muddy festival field. Liam Farrell (aka Doctor L - Tony Allen, Mbongwana Star) had a firm hand in leading the edgy, industrial feel to the production. Les Amazones d’Afrique fight inequality and violence towards women and support The Panzi Foundation, who treat women with gynaecological injuries in the Democratic Republic Of Congo. For fans of Amadou and Mariam, Sidiki Diabaté, Tony Allen, Oumou Sangaré, Fatoumata Diawara, Rokia Traoré, Ali Farka Touré, Mbongwana Star, Staff Benda Bilili. 

Republique Amazone

Music GB