Sierra Leone's Refugee All Stars - Living Like a Refugee
List Price:
Our Price: $2.75
You Save: $15.23 (85%)
Availability: Usually ships in 1-2 business days
Buy Used: from $1.18 (click here)
Category: Music CD
See more CD details
Buy this Music CD at online store in your country
Canadian Music Store
Canadian Music Store
CD Details
Artist: Sierra Leone's Refugee All StarsEdition: Music CD
Audio: English (Unknown)
CD Release Date: 2006-09-26
Music Label: Anti
Soundtracks:
- Living Like A Refugee
- Soda Soap
- Weapon Conflict
- Bull To The Weak
- Big Lesson
- Let We Do We Own
- Smile
- Compliments For The Peace
- Pat Malonthone
- Garbage To The Showglass
- Akera Ka Abonshor
- Kele Mani
- I'm Not A Fool
- Ya N'Digba
- Refugee Rolling
- Monkey Work
- Ma Fo Ya
Description of Living Like a Refugee
Living Like a Refugee is the realization of a lifelong dream for this inspiring band of Sierra Leonean musicians. Each song is an original composition written during their years in exile in the refugee camps. The powerful lyrics speak to the suffering and injustice they have seen but also reverberate with hopeful, optimistic rhythms.Made up of former displaced persons from the killing fields of Sierra Leone, members of the Refugee All Stars (a.k.a. R.A.S.) were forced to flee for their lives during the 1990s, fanning out into nearby West African nations. Through continued hard times, bandmates Reuben M. Koroma, Francis (Franco) Langba, and Abdul Rahim (Arahim) Kamara entertained and heartened their compatriots with truthful, gently satiric, liltingly infectious tunes. Filmmakers Banker White and Zach Niles made a prize-winning documentary about the band's courageous struggle, thereby bringing their story to an international audience. Backed by Keith Richards, Sir Paul McCartney, and other socially conscious celebrities, R.A.S. embarked on a rapturously received world tour and were at long last able to augment their earlier, but nonetheless invaluable, field recordings with professionally engineered studio tracks. The resulting seventeen songs travel through deceptively relaxed Sierra Leonean Palm Wine music, triple-rhythmed gbute vang and reggae-like sounds (complete with toasting), Nigerian Afro-Beat, and even echoes of Congolese soukous. Backed by sweet yet astringent vocal harmonies, sultry guitars, homemade percussion, and playfully retro-sounding organ riffs, each selection reveals still another facet of a bittersweet but ultimately triumphant saga of survival. At long last, Sierra Leone?s Refugee All Stars are poised to become the superstars they were always destined to be. --Christina Roden
Dance & DJ CDs
Music Genres
Bestsellers in Dance & DJ CDs
J'ai Ete au Bal: I Went to the Dance, Vol. 1Release date: 1993-12-01; Music CD
Best price: $11.13
Price in other shops:
Fibre - Sub Aquatic MemoriesRelease date: 2011-01-14; Music CD
Best price: $0.99
Price in other shops:
Paul Schutze - Deus Ex MachinaRelease date: 1997-08-19; Music CD
Best price: $8.99
Chubb Rock, G-Man - Treat Me RightRelease date: 1996-12-24; Music CD
Best price: $6.97
Price in other shops:
Tangerine Dream - MelroseRelease date: 1990-09-25; Music CD
Best price: $24.14
Gabrielle Roth & The Mirrors - StillpointRelease date: 1996-09-19; Music CD
Best price: $7.88
Price in other shops:
Ganga - River Of LoveRelease date: 2001-08-15; Music CD
Best price: $10.58
Price in other shops:
Karuna - Devotional SongsRelease date: 1997-08-13; Music CD
Best price: $13.64
Price in other shops:
Christian Bruckner, Eva M Hagen - Der Fall GreenfieldRelease date: 2006-08-25; Music CD
Best price: $16.96
Martin Schneider - Best of MaddinRelease date: 2003-12-08; Music CD
Best price: $18.04
Price in other shops:
Similar CDs
Playing For Change - Songs Around The World (CD + DVD)Baker & Taylor; Release date: 2009-04-28; Music CD
Best price: $10.75
Price in other shops:
Kanda Bongo Man - Kwassa KwassaRelease date: 1991-07-01; Music CD
Best price: $7.20
Price in other shops:
Tinariwen - TassiliRelease date: 2011-08-29; Music CD
Best price: $9.80
Price in other shops:
Art Blakey - The Jazz MessengersRelease date: 2008-02-01; Music CD
Best price: $2.69
Price in other shops:
Galactic - Carnivale ElectricosRelease date: 2012-02-21; Music CD
Best price: $7.32
Price in other shops:
Fela Kuti - Open & Close / AfrodisiacRelease date: 2010-02-16; Music CD
Best price: $9.46
Price in other shops:
Sierra Leone's Refugee All Stars - Radio SaloneRelease date: 2012-04-24; Music CD
Best price: $10.21
Price in other shops:
AfroCubism - AfroCubismRelease date: 2010-11-02; Music CD
Best price: $12.26
Price in other shops:
Sierra Leone's Refugee All StarsNew Video; Release date: 2007-08-14; DVD
Best price: $9.71
Price in other shops:
Sierra Leone's Refugee All Stars - Rise & ShineRelease date: 2010-03-23; Music CD
Best price: $9.88
Price in other shops: