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Thread started 10/14/14 4:37pm

MusicAddict95

Songs with African/tribal chanting

So far, I've got:

Life In a Northern Town - Dream Academy

Wanna Be Startin' Somethin' - Michael Jackson

I know it's a paucity of examples to go on, but hopefull you get the gist. smile

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Reply #1 posted 10/14/14 4:40pm

dm3857

Talking Heads - I Zimbra

Fela Kuti's music.

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Reply #2 posted 10/14/14 5:25pm

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You can take a black guy to Nashville from right out of the cotton fields with bib overalls, and they will call him R&B. You can take a white guy in a pin-stripe suit who’s never seen a cotton field, and they will call him country. ~ O. B. McClinton
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Reply #3 posted 10/14/14 5:29pm

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You can take a black guy to Nashville from right out of the cotton fields with bib overalls, and they will call him R&B. You can take a white guy in a pin-stripe suit who’s never seen a cotton field, and they will call him country. ~ O. B. McClinton
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Reply #4 posted 10/14/14 7:53pm

MusicAddict95

MickyDolenz said:

I forgot about a lot of Paul Simon's catalog having a lot of African influence. Thanks!

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Reply #5 posted 10/14/14 7:54pm

MusicAddict95

Double Post

[Edited 10/14/14 19:56pm]

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Reply #6 posted 10/14/14 8:45pm

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Denise Pearson - Rafiki Yangu (My Friend)

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Reply #7 posted 10/14/14 10:34pm

Ego101

'soul makossa'

***inspired MJ's -mama say mamma sa.. in wanna be startin' somethin'

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Reply #8 posted 10/15/14 4:44am

Dancelot

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I always looooved Ralph MacDonald three part 18 minute tour de force "The Path" ranging and progressing from African chants'n rhythms up to Blues, Jazz and Funk

Vanglorious... this is protected by the red, the black, and the green. With a key... sissy!
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Reply #9 posted 10/15/14 10:27am

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You can take a black guy to Nashville from right out of the cotton fields with bib overalls, and they will call him R&B. You can take a white guy in a pin-stripe suit who’s never seen a cotton field, and they will call him country. ~ O. B. McClinton
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Reply #10 posted 10/15/14 2:03pm

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My favorite:

Mory Kante: "Yeke Yeke"

Here is a remixed version from 2011

http://youtu.be/wW0wIIm6AZw

You might also try the original here:

http://youtu.be/9ndzYXh92o8?list=PLC918FECD0E4EF516



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Reply #11 posted 10/15/14 11:09pm

Superstition

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Don't Look Any Further - Dennis Edwards

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Reply #12 posted 10/16/14 9:31am

bobzilla77

Peter Gabriel - Biko, Rhythm Of The Heat

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Reply #13 posted 10/16/14 9:32am

bobzilla77

Joni Mitchell - The Jungle Line

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Reply #14 posted 10/17/14 2:30am

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Not 'chanting' per se, but I always loved the West African folk song at the beginning/end of this track from Branford Marsalis's Buckshot LeFonque project:

"Not everything that is faced can be changed; but nothing can be changed until it is faced." - James Baldwin
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Reply #15 posted 10/17/14 3:44am

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Love this one and the message behind it

With a very special thank you to Tina: Is hammer already absolute, how much some people verändern...ICH hope is never so I will be! And if, then I hope that I would then have wen in my environment who joins me in the A....
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Reply #16 posted 11/05/14 1:05pm

MusicAddict95

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Reply #17 posted 11/05/14 2:21pm

PrettyMan72

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Meshell Ndegeocello - Article 3

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Reply #18 posted 11/05/14 5:54pm

Lammastide

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* Enigma -- The End of Innocence ill

* Lots of Dead Can Dance tracks after their 1993 album Into the Labyrinth, though much of their chanting is phonetic rather than that of any discernible language or culture.

Ὅσον ζῇς φαίνου
μηδὲν ὅλως σὺ λυποῦ
πρὸς ὀλίγον ἐστὶ τὸ ζῆν
τὸ τέλος ὁ χρόνος ἀπαιτεῖ.”
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