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Re: Richard Bona
« Reply #15 on: May 09, 2008, 02:39:00 AM »
Eyando by Richard Bona and band

Live and impeccable in Stockholm.


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Re: Richard Bona
« Reply #16 on: July 08, 2008, 10:42:59 PM »
Interview with RB

Too short, maybe...
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Re: Richard Bona
« Reply #17 on: April 18, 2009, 06:51:19 AM »
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Re: Richard Bona
« Reply #18 on: April 22, 2009, 01:42:15 AM »
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Re: Richard Bona
« Reply #19 on: July 09, 2009, 06:12:28 AM »
Great sound quality on this one.

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Re: Richard Bona
« Reply #20 on: July 20, 2009, 02:50:39 PM »
I listen to a lot of non-english music these days -- from the music offered by M to Ecuadorian to Mexican to Cuban to Spanish to Belgian to Farsi to Hebrew to French to an unidentified language of East Cameroon. I can only rarely tell you what the lyrics are saying -- and never word-for-word. This ambiguity would have made me very uncomfortable years ago, but still I persist in listening intuitively. As soon as I freed myself from the English, I've stumbled on some beautiful and interesting music. I push through it all with a kind of trust of my senses instead of my head.

This is a beautiful song, and I think knowing the meaning of it would enhance my appreciation ... but it doesn't appear to be meant to be. I even found a site with Bona himself fielding questions from all over the world, and even he didn't/couldn't offer up the translation. Not to this song, anyway.

So here it is ... I let the doleful singing and piano wash over me. Hope you'll enjoy it too.

Eyala
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Na titi pon ni sonja
Ni ma bole bino ma mbenda
Eyala

ngo ye nde ya ndolo
Nde je pe so e bodi e

Be no peso wala
Se o jana bila
Ba wa nde ba si langue to mbale
to

bana basu mo ba titi njoma bosinga
E mende no be na ba tese babo mbon

Yala Ohh yala ohh
yala ohh yala

ohh

Lambo te mo la nde bila mao
Di toukwe mo di be nde ndolo
Nde be no peso o wala
Se o djana djana bila
Ba wa

nde ba si langwe to mbale
To bana basu mo ba titi njoma bosinga
E mende no be na ba tese babo mbon

Yala ohh yala

ohh
Yala ohh yala ohh


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Re: Richard Bona
« Reply #21 on: July 20, 2009, 03:08:42 PM »
Dang this youtube really has good sound! Hes got a beautiful voice, and the piano is heavenly - really good stuff you've been finding vicki.  ;)
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Re: Richard Bona
« Reply #22 on: December 11, 2009, 07:08:48 AM »
Here's a treat: a song from his latest cd, "10 Shades of Blue". YT has thwarted most of the cuts from the cd on this person's channel, but this one survives. Hope you can access it.

Not at all what I expected.

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Re: Richard Bona
« Reply #23 on: December 11, 2009, 07:19:26 AM »
Just want to point out the irony of "copyright restriction".
Presumably, this restriction exists so that the artist may benefit from the proceeds of his/her work. There may be other reasons as well, such as preserving the integrity of sound, etc. etc. But I feel certain it mostly goes to proprietary rights.

As for those "proceeds", here's the irony:  had I not been able to access Richard Bona's tracks, on both Imeem and Youtube, I never would have grown so taken with him that I ended up buying 5 of his cd's! I only rarely buy cd's anymore, and it was through hearing them online that I got so attracted.

So I have a theory, that were these restrictions a little more flexible,  the "artist" just might end up making more money, not less. Funny that, eh?

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Re: Richard Bona
« Reply #24 on: December 11, 2009, 10:29:12 AM »
Another one!

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Re: Richard Bona
« Reply #25 on: December 11, 2009, 11:06:53 AM »
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Re: Richard Bona
« Reply #26 on: December 12, 2009, 08:09:16 AM »
Quote from: Nichi on December 11, 2009, 11:06:53 AM
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The story of Richard Bona is portrayed as a tale of someone who, even as a young boy in East Cameroon, lives and breathes his passion for music. He made his first instruments out of anything he could find -- like the braking-wire of bicycles for guitar strings.  He got his "break" through association with a French night-club owner, and went to France to continue his pursuit. He has toured Europe extensively. He is known as a jazz musician, and in the racks that is where one might find him -- in jazz.

He arrived in New York a few years ago, unable to speak English, but still found his way to the jazz clubs and continued on. He has taught at one of the universities there. He's highly in demand, and highly regarded.

So, 6 months or so ago, I was disappointed to read that his next album was going to be "the blues". The impression from the (p)review was that he was going to explore the blues -- like that born in the southern US. This hardly seemed complex enough for him -- a slow 4/4 timing, 3 or 4-chord progression -- what a step back for him.

But based on these cuts, one can see that that's not at all what's going on, and I'm so happy.  Whoever wrote that preview was sadly under-informed. This is World Music, complete with his own complexity and sense of melody and syncopation. With his joy and elan!

I'm so happy, that I've dispatched my cd-elves to procure it! 
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« Reply #27 on: June 06, 2010, 10:48:37 PM »
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« Reply #28 on: June 06, 2010, 10:58:15 PM »
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Re: Richard Bona
« Reply #29 on: August 31, 2010, 04:09:17 AM »
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