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Geoffrey Oryema
Beat The Border
Genre:
WORLD MUSIC
Label:
Real World Records Limited
Release date: 1993
Album Reviews
This highly creative mix of Ugandan songs and laid-back rock should have been a disaster, since the genres meet on the field of ambient dreams -- a woozy terrain amply littered with the rainsticks of fallen warriors. But expat Ugandan Geoffrey Oryema neither tries mainstreaming African sources to fit rock fissures nor piles extra beats and instruments on the heads of reluctant Western forms. Instead, like any good ambient technician, he subjugates every other element to the service of applying textures so palpably rich you wish you could drizzle them over sautéed vegetables. Just to prove it's not all dial twiddling, he kicks in with first-rate songwriting to boot. ~ Bob Tarte, All Music Guide
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'I'm Yours' was the breakthrough single of Virginia born singer-songwriter Jason Mraz. Occupying similar laid back pop/rock territory as Dido and James Blunt, 'I'm Yours' became the most played track on US radio when it was released and was also nominated for a Grammy. The song went on to enjoy worldwide chart success, breaking the top 10 of many country's national charts. Poignantly, added to its other various accolades, the record became the most tagged Shazam track in the world for all of 2008. Featuring a breezy, reggae tinged guitar line 'I'm Yours' contains the same undeniable mainstream that has made the work of fellow US guitarsmith Jack Johnson such a success. Stephen Titmuus~ (c)2008 Shazam Entertainment Limited. All rights reserved. |
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