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Cocody Rock

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Download links and information about Cocody Rock by Alpha Blondy. This album was released in 1984 and it belongs to Jazz, Rock, Reggae, Roots Reggae genres. It contains 8 tracks with total duration of 42:09 minutes.

Artist: Alpha Blondy
Release date: 1984
Genre: Jazz, Rock, Reggae, Roots Reggae
Tracks: 8
Duration: 42:09
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Tracks

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No. Title Length
1. Cocody Rock 4:53
2. Téré 5:45
3. Super Powers 5:14
4. Interplanetary Revolution 4:32
5. Fangandan Kameleba 5:22
6. Bory Samory 4:55
7. Cocody Rock (Dub) 5:39
8. Téré (Dub) 5:49

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Alpha Blondy's 1983 first album, a smash hit featuring an all-local band the Natty Rebels, had all the accessibility and directness that made him an international star. Two cuts are agreeable reggae in English; the rest is Afro-reggae and a lot more interesting for that. In some ways Blondy's music is typical of the Ivory Coast: light, accomplished, and geared to a regional rather than local audience. Though the notes don't tell you so, Cocody Rock is a re-release of Blondy's 1984 second album, recorded in Paris and Kingston with a mix of African and Jamaican musicians (plus Kassav's Jocelyne Beroard on backup vocals). Pre-superstar Blondy, it has the freshness you'd expect from somebody pretty much just starting out. He sure believes in touching all the bases. Besides its so-so title song, Cocody Rock has something for both Muslims and Christians as well as a hilarious cut claiming Ivory Coast's ultra-conservative president as a Rasta.