1 |
Toko
- Momo
Wandel |
2 |
Nakawunde
- Percussion
Discussion Africa |
3 |
Idi's
Story |
4 |
Afro
Disco Beat - Tony
Allen |
5 |
Save
Me - E.T.
Mensah & The Tempos Band |
6 |
Ambush |
| 7 |
Me
And Bobby Mcgee - Angela
Kalule |
8 |
Kasongo
- Afrigo
Band |
9 |
Fever
- Jingo |
10 |
The
Bonnie Banks O' Loch Lomond - Nyzonza
Singers |
11 |
Bukom
Mashie - Oscar
Sulley & The Uhuru Dance Band |
12 |
Press
Conference |
13 |
Love
Is You - Ofo
The Black Company |
14 |
Getting
The Evil Of Nicolas
|
15 |
On
The Runway |
16 |
Down
Over Lake Victoria |
17 |
Acholi
Pot Song - Ndere
Dance Troupe |
18 |
Voice
Of The Forgotten -
Kawesa |
REVIEW
Thanks
to the diversity of film genre, we had ventured into various
lands’ music cultures. We have indulged ourselves in
the Spanish-inspired flamenco style, treated to the classical
European orchestral sounds and gyrated to India’s Bollywood
numbers. With
this soundtrack for Kevin Mcdonald’s film, we are transported
to 1970s Uganda where African tunes rock your world with their
signature heavy rhythms.
The generous 72-minute album features 12 song tracks featured
in the movie. Those who have caught the picture on celluloid
will fondly remember the fitting visuals that accompany these
tunes. If not, these infectious cues will also catch on easily,
with your mind forming pictures of happy Africans enjoying
and swaying to the melodies.
The soundtrack
first introduces us to “Toko”, which self-indulgently
goes on for almost eight minutes. It takes its time to layer
itself, with various ethnic wind instruments building on the
vocals. Listeners who prefer more consistent beats and catchier
melodies will enjoy “Afro Disco Beat” and “Save
Me” for their repetitiveness. These tracks carry on
for quite a bit, and may not appeal to impatient ears.
UK composer
Alex Heffes (One Day in September, Imagine Me and You) provides
six score tracks, which are inaptly interspersed between the
song cues. Beginning with the ominous “Idi’s Story”
and the darkly orchestrated “Ambush”, the trained
listener can feel his gradual mood change as the album reaches
a high point with the action-packed “Press Conference”,
before coming to a sorrowful “Down Over Lake Victoria”.
Heffe’s compositions appropriately infuse the African
elements of intense percussions and exotic winds into the
themes.
In
this part of the world, this is definitely an album with a
music style which we won’t come across very often, so
it is certainly worth embracing.
SOUNDTRACK
RATING:
 
Review
by John Li
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