Afro-Pop

Regular price $9.99
Label
Naxos World Music
Release Date
June 21, 2000
Format
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    Featuring
    • COMPOSER
      VARIOUS
    • PERFORMER
      Various
    Product Details
    • RELEASE DATE
      June 21, 2000
    • UPC
      636943701928
    • CATALOG NUMBER
      76019-2
    • LABEL
      Naxos World Music
    • NUMBER OF DISCS
      1
    • GENRE

Recorded in Maputo, Mozambique in April 2000, this collection of southern African music brings together some of Mozambique's best musicians for a benefit record in aid of rebuilding and helping victims of the country's flooding disaster. The intensive recording session was made in three days in the living room of local residents, Elia, Myriam and Iwan Irawan. The South African Broadcasting Corporation loaned the use of a mobile studio van, which engineers Eugene Pretorius and Kevin Starbuck drove from Johannesburg to Maputo. Keyboard player Seppo Kantonen joined Koivistoinen journeying from Finland to Maputo, and supplied his talents on many of the tracks. Final touches and mixing was done in South Africa by Peter Pearlson and in Finland. A portion of the proceeds of Mozambique Relief will go to Oxfam for aid, reconstruction and development projects in Mozambique. This project is sponsored in part by the Optiroc Group (Finland) and the Mozambican-Finnish Development Co-operation Programme of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Finland.