‘Tuo Tuo’
Tuo Tuo (Liberian Children’s Song)
Children’s song by siblings + family
Recorded in Saclepea, Liberia by e.g. bailey
‘Oracles of Equiano (Starkie’s Pushing Mix)’
Oracles of Equiano (Starskie’s Pushing Mix)
Produced by Starskie
Music by Starskie
Written by e.g. bailey
(E. Bailey, O. Knabben)
American Afrikan (Album)
Press Release • Listen • Liner Notes • Quotes
Click on each of the track titles to listen to the track, plus additional information and notes about each track.
1. Professor Goodwin’s Preface
2. Liberia
3. Love Songs In Middle Passage: Africans in America
5. K Street Blues: The Bailout Plan
6. America
10. Blues People
11. Home
12. Motherless Child
14. Afrika
15. Tuo Tuo
16. Afrikan is the New American
17. American Afrikan (Space Station One Mix)
18. Oracles of Equiano (Starkie’s Pushing Mix)
American Afrikan (Quotes)
AMERICAN AFRIKAN
Quotes + Comments
Press:
“There is so much history, culture and experience packed in American Afrikan that to summarize would be to attempt to summarize all of African American experience.” – Jon Behm (Reviler)
“So what’s surprising about Bailey’s debut album isn’t its aural cinema but how great it is as music. The results are more like Brian Eno and David Byrne’s My Life in the Bush of Ghosts reinvented to signify African-ness explicitly, personally, and profoundly than like poetry set to music.” – Peter Scholtes (City Pages)
Fans:
“Straight shit mad orgasms.” – Tiffany
‘The Unknown Soldier’
The Unknown Soldier
Produced by e.g. bailey + Ben Durrant
Music by DJ Limbs
Written by e.g. bailey
Additional voice by Sha Cage
(E. Bailey, V. Carreon, S. Cage)
‘American Afrikan (M.anifestations Mix)’
American Afrikan (M.ANIFESTations Mix) (featuring M.anifest)
Produced by e.g. bailey + Ben Durrant
Music by Katrah Quey
Written by e.g. bailey + M.anifest
(E. Bailey, K. Tsikata, D. Hollins)
‘American Afrikan’
American Afrikan (featuring Afrika 7 <e.g. bailey + Ibé Kaba + Sankaradjeki>)
Produced by e.g. bailey + Ben Durrant
Music by Katrah Quey
Written by e.g. bailey + Ibe Kaba + Sankaradjeki
Background vocals by Mankwe Ndosi
(E. Bailey, I. Kaba, J.E. Joss, M. Ndois, D. Hollins)
‘Afrikan is the New American’
Afrikan is the New American
Produced by Katrah Quey
Music by Katrah Quey
(D. Hollins)