Beat the Border

Artist: Geoffrey Oryema
Label: Real World
Category: Music

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Media: Audio CD
Number Of Discs: 1

UPC: 017046233323
EAN: 0017046233323
ASIN: B000000HOX

Release Date: 1993-11-05

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Trippy world music at it's best. You NEED these albums!
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Tracks:

The River
Kel Kweyo
Market Day
Lapwony
Umoja
Gang Deyo
Hard Labour
Payira Wind
Lajok
Nomad

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Customer Reviews:

This is Oryema's Best Album.......2006-11-10

"Beat the Border" is Oryema's definitive album. The music will transport your mind and conjure near tangible visions of Afrika within the first glorious beats. His lyrics, guitar, and distinctive voice resonate powerfully in this moving album.

If you want to get away, here is a good place to start.......2005-04-07

Like many of the reviewers I discovered G through a music sampler. Market Day was the song (also on this record). Oryema's voice really caught my ear with his awesome lows. There is a somber tone to most of his songs here, but they are very captivating and powerful in a empathetic way. You can feel the hurt/pain in his voice sometimes. Some songs are in English, others are in Acholi, which the book notes kindly translate. Though I only have this cd, I anxiously await the others I have already ordered! This guy has me hooked. I don't have a vast knowledge of contemporary African music, but I enjoy his mixture of traditional and modern sound/technology. I would recommend this CD to anyone who want ot hear something new and unique from the doldrums of the garbage the radio churns out on a daily basis.

Very strong CD.......2003-06-04

This is a very good example of world music; Oryema has integrity and his music is both fraught with feeling and charged with the masculine strength of African beats and rhythms. Perhaps no better example of this exists anywhere than in the opening track "The River," which offers gripping backup vocals and a powerful sense of place. The entire CD follows up well, particularly with the moving "Hard Labor" that touches effectively on the various walks of life in a damaged African society. An exile from Uganda, Oryema displays a greater sense of time and place than most Western musicians. this one is a hands-down winner, and I will be buying more of Oryema's work.

BEAT ALL BORDERS WITH ORYEMA.......2002-12-29

You never forget your first one, right? This was my intro to Geoffrey Oryema and I loved the song, "The River" so much that it was several weeks before I could bring myself to play the others, all sublime. You can do it. Go for it.

Different from his other CD"s but still beautiful.......2001-09-26

When I first heard this CD I was shocked. I was expecting a style more like his CD 'Exile' and it was not the same. It does have more of a Western influence but there is a deep beauty and sadness in this CD as well.

I have not seen 'Night to Night' is other CD listed on Amazon.com but I do recommend it as well. It too is different from the previous two (Exile and Beat the Border) but incredibly poetic.

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