Cocody Rock
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 |
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Release date: | 1984 |
Genre: | Jazz, Rock, Reggae, Roots Reggae |
Tracks: | 8 |
Duration: | 42:09 |
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Tracks
[Edit]No. | Title | Length |
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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 |
Details
[Edit]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.