Mama Africa
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| Studio album by Peter Tosh | ||||
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Publication |
1983 |
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| Label (s) | Capitol / EMI | |||
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Format (s) |
LP (CD) |
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Title (number) |
9 (12) |
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running time |
? (44 ′) |
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Chris Kimsey , Peter Tosh |
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Studio (s) |
Dynamic Sound, Kingston (Jamaica) |
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Mama Africa is Peter Tosh's fifth studio album and the last. which was published during his lifetime. He recorded it during the spring of 1983 at Dynamic Sound Studios in Kingston, Jamaica .
It was his most commercially successful LP outside of Jamaica. It was released in the UK and the United States in April 1983. In the USA the album was able to place itself in the charts and rose to position 59.
Style and creation
On Mama Africa , Tosh paid less attention to the lyrics than on the previous albums, but rather focused on the music he produced together with Chris Kimsey . He mixed new songs with new recordings of older songs, such as his own tracks Stop That Train and Maga Dog from his time with the Wailers . From the title track, which is characterized by Caribbean flair and Afrobeat , to the anti-nuclear missile song Peace Treaty with the sounds of falling bombs, to an idiosyncratic interpretation of Chuck Berry's Johnny B. Goode , which develops into an "absolute crescendo of sounds" Tosh your way through different styles. With Carlton Davis and Lebert Morrison as well as Sly & Robbie , Tosh was supported by two different duos as the rhythm section . The backing vocals of three pieces on the LP were performed by the Tamlins, the most busy reggae ensemble of its kind at the time . Even Betty Wright can be heard on the LP. Guitar was played by Donald Kinsey, who also wrote the song Where You Gonna Run for the LP.
Track list
- Mama Africa
- Glass House
- Not gonna give it up
- Stop that train
- Johnny B. Goode ( Chuck Berry )
- Where You Gonna Run ( Donald Kinsey )
- Peace Treaty
- Feel no way
- Maga Dog
Outcouplings
One month before the long-playing record, "Johnny B. Goode" was decoupled and released as a single, on whose B-side there is another song from the album, Peace Treaty_ . The single became a minor hit on both sides of the Atlantic (# 48 in the UK charts and # 84 in the US Hot 100 ). In Great Britain, Two more singles were released in May and September of that year with Where You Gonna Run (B-side: Stop That Train ) and Mama Africa (B-side: Not Gonna Give It Up ), but none of them made it onto the charts managed.
Republication
In 2002 Mama Africa was digitally reworked and published on CD. The remix contained three additional tracks, each with a long version of Johnny B. Goode and Where You Gonna Run and the single version by Mama Africa .
Web links
- Mama Africa at Allmusic (English)