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Music CD - Emmanuel Jal & Abdel Gadir Salim: Ceasefire
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Music CD: Ceasefire
Artist: Emmanuel Jal & Abdel Gadir Salim
List Price: $16.98
Our Price: $11.80
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Manufacturer: Riverboat
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Tracks:
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1. Alwa
2. Elengwen
3. Ya Salam
4. Nyambol
5. Lemon Bara
6. Gua
7. Hadiya
8. Bool
9. Gamearina
10. Asabi
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Binding: Audio CD
EAN: 0605633003826
Label: Riverboat
Manufacturer: Riverboat
Number Of Discs: 1
Publisher: Riverboat
Release Date: 2005-10-07
Studio: Riverboat
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Summary: Wow
Comment: I don't understand much more than a handful of words on this album but this one of the best albums I've ever heard. I can feel their message of peace. It really is amazing how music communicates over all language barriers. It sounds of ancient African tradition mixed with modern rap and jazz. This is truly a masterpiece.
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Summary: hopeful and haunting
Comment: Wow, what a great recording! My husband bought the CD for our 11 year old and it has become a family favorite. The music is full of African rhythms and African heart. It reminds me to pray for peace. We salute the artists and their message.
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Summary: Hope is an endangered species!
Comment: Some wars in our world seem to have been and still be eternal and their cruelty is beyond our ability to imagine how men, women and even if not often children can sink and delve into such unhuman acrtivities. You can try to look for causes, motivations or even explanations, but you will only find pretexts, false pretenses, in one word nothing that can really stand the challenge of truth. Darfur in Sudan is one of these conflicts whose origin has long disappeared in our memory and whose end we cannot even conceive. But our worst feeling is the conviction that there is nothing we can do, that we are powerless in front of these two parallel instincts, that to kill and that to survive, to kill to survive and to survive to kill. This CD is a voice that comes up from human consciousness and its only objective is to ask for, preach even and for sure defend peace for Sudan, for Darfur, a peace that has definitely never existed for the human communities living in this territory, even in the memory of their oldest members. And here an adventure can start because it is the voice of a human soul. A voice that slams its words, raps its sentences, disentangles its blues, weaves the lace of its gospel, in Nuer as much as in Arabic, to African as much as Arabic music, borrowing all the styles that can intermingle in the vast auditoriums of the world to produce a feeling of estrangement that is so great that we finally feel at home, we finally feel we have reached the destination that had been ours for so long after a voyage that can only give man's soul the strength and the life it needs to reconquer its control over history and death. The power of this music comes from the long rivers of blood in which it was steeped with the vital hope and the unshaking faith that one day the springs of the Nile river will be reborn pure and clear providing children with the water in which they can relearn how to bathe and domestic animals with the desire to come and drink without taking the risk of a criminal bullet roaming around for a target.
Dr Jacques COULARDEAU, Universit? Paris Dauphine, Universit? Paris I Panth?on Sorbonne
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Summary: The Peace Call & Deft Grooves of Ceasefire
Comment: Southern Sudanese Emmanuel Jal and Northern Sudanese Abdel Gadir Salim are the epitome of contrast. First, they represent the opposite ends of their country's political/religious, the former a young Christian, and Salim a Muslim and an elder of his country's music tradition.
Jal, now 25, was one of the thousand of young children forcefully removed from their homes by the insurgent guerrilla movement pitted against government forces. In Salim's case, having been brutally stabbed and barely surviving the attack of an orthodox Muslim man enraged with Salim's impious music, violence is no stranger.
Musically speaking, whereas Salim, Emmanuel Jal is an example of African music diving into Western music, most specifically his strong commitment to Hip-Hop. Salim is a consummate singer and oud player of Sudan's Folk music. So, "Ceasefire" besides not being a casual title, it is also a great album.
Proof of it, for instance are Jal's hip-hop influenced "Aiwa" -with its insistent percussion and dead-on rapping- or "Elengwen"-where the elder Salim trades verses with Emmanuel Jal-or "Gua," where chant-like choruses and an Eastern-leaning saxophone speak gloriously to one another. There are, also, more traditional Arabic songs, "Ya Salam" and "Lemon Bara" stand out, or you can sway along with the gorgeous "Asabi."
This is a stunning statement of two great musicians who could easily have chosen to remain enemies, but fortunately for lovers of great music anywhere in the world, they did not.
Recently, Sudanese rebel leaders and government ministers met to agree on a peace deal designed to end Sudan's 21-year civil war. If ever they hit a snag, they should play Ceasefire. Peace will have a better chance.
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Summary: Makes me grateful for what I have
Comment: I bought this CD after hearing a program on NPR highlighting Emmanual Jal. I intended it to be a gesture of support and wasn't expecting anything out of the CD. Once I put it in my CD player though, I couldn't get enough. The music is upbeat, and fun to listen to. Additionally the lyrics that i can understand (only 25% is in english) invoke a deep sense of gratitude for the wonderfull country we live in here in the US as well as a sense of moral obligation to help those living in less blessed conditions.
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Editorial Reviews:
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Ceasefire is an inspired collaboration between Southern Sudanese rising-star rapper Jal and established Northern Sudanese singer and oud player Salim. Here the two find common ground within their music. Sudan is in a state of civil war, and while political clashes make for death and starvation, this musical union offers an optimistic alternative, one where the Northern Arabic melodies and rhythms fit hand in glove with the Southern African percussion and Jal's laid-back flow. When the duo digs most deeply into the hip-hop vibe, as it does on Jal's "Aiwa" and "Elengwen," it mixes hiccupping beats, smooth raps, and rich ethnic backdrops. Yet there are also some conventional Arabic songs (with both doing vocals) like the Salim-penned "Ya Salam" and the traditional-leaning "Lemon Bara" that provide their own perspective. Ceasefire will hopefully open the eyes of those on either side of the conflict as well as draw some attention from abroad. It also makes for exciting and innovative listening. --Tad Hendrickson
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