Wednesday, February 11, 2009

Did someone leave this in my CD rack?

African Safari of Praise (David Mporampora): This is one of those CDs that I found one day in my collection, then wondered where it came from. The best I can figure, I saw this guy's group at a music festival. I have a few CDs that match this one almost identically - that is, I saw a group give a particularly inspired live performance, then picked up the CD, thinking it would serve as a memory of said performance. However, the CD ends up being a sterile, lifeless facsimile, and moves toward the dusty end of the shelf. This one (through the first track, at least) may be standing up better than the others I'm thinking about, but only marginally. Is this a curse of "festival bands"? I can think of a couple (Solas, beolach) where that is absolutely not the case, though. Even though it has a very South African vibe (think Paul Simon's Graceland), it's "praise" music, which really flies beneath (above, around?) my radar. I don't know, maybe somebody gave it to me? I really don't know where it came from. Maybe this was divine intervention - Tool's AEnima played just before this (but didn't garner a review).

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