Les Nubians - Princesses Nubiennes
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Artist: Les NubiansEdition: Music CD
CD Release Date: 1998-09-22
Music Label: Higher Octave
Soundtracks:
- Demain (Jazz)
- Les Portes du Souvenir
- Makeda
- Sourire
- Princesse Nubienne
- Tabou
- Embrasse-Moi
- Sugar Cane
- Bebela
- Si Je T'Avais �couté
- Hymne Nubien (Interlude)
- Voyager
- Désolée
Music reviews of Princesses Nubiennes
Music Review: Zhane fluidity/diasporic versatility/SoulIISoul creativty
Rating: 4 Stars
I am an admitted critic. So, when a friend bought me the Les Nubians Cd, naturally I was ready to seek out weaknesses on the album. What I cynically anticipated was a mere carbon-copy of hip-hop - en Francais. Thankfully, these Nubian Princesses proved me incorrect. Pressing play on the first track delivered automatic results; Celia and Helene Faussart (Les Nubians) liquify sound and, rather than listen to it, my skin absorbed their fluid vocals via Osmosys. Although their sound is dissimilar to the raspy, rifty, gospel crooning all too familiar to African-American music, this stuff is certainly brimful of soul. "Makeda", a jazzy tribute to South African songstress Miriam Makeda begins with indisputably West African drum rhythms, then proceeds to give a slow-but-sure fix to bass addicts (the instrument, not the drug), and displays a keyboard tune so velvety, I mistook it for a flute. Les Nubians, self-proclaimed Afropeans, offer not simply one genre of music. Like their racial heritage (French and Cameroonian), their music is a blessed mixture. Stylistically, "Voyager" and "Les Portes du Souvenir" lean more toward European influence. Still, the thought-provoking lyrics are directed toward the Motherland's diaspora. What struck me immediately about these sisters was the bizarre likeness between their voices to those of r&b duo Zhane. But Les Nubians have something more crucial in mind than simply getting people onto the dancefloor: "pour raviver les memoires, [et] exhumer les connaissances" (to fire up the memory and dig up the knowledge of the diaspora). "Princesses Nubians" won't make you do the wop, but it may bring the dormant Nigerian Stomp out from within you. The music is hard to pigeonhole, so I dubbed it a blend of Zhane-like fluidity, Soul II Soul creativity, and African diasporic versatility. I look forward to a tour in my city . reviewed by Hamida Kinge
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