Beat the Border

by Geoffrey Oryema

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  • Type: Album
  • Released: 1993
  • Label: Real World
  • Country: Uganda
  • Length: 41:39
  • Community rating: 3.88/5 from 4 ratings

Album Notes & Community Reviews

'Beat the Border' seamlessly weaves traditional Ugandan Acholi instrumentation with polished, contemporary worldbeat production. Released through Peter Gabriel's influential label, the recording offers a deeply meditative and warm reflection on exile and cultural memory, sung primarily in Swahili and Acholi.

Genres

Descriptors: acoustic, traditional, folklore, cultural identity, percussive, melodic, folk, vocal, storytelling

Tracklist

  1. The River (6:30)
  2. Kel Kweyo (4:10)
  3. Market Day (3:18)
  4. Lapwony (3:57)
  5. Umoja (4:15)
  6. Gang Deyo (4:33)
  7. Hard Labour (4:29)
  8. Payira Wind (4:15)
  9. Lajok (2:48)
  10. Nomad (3:20)

Credits

  • Geoffrey Oryema - primary artist, guitar, harp [nanga], kalimba [lukeme], lead vocals, percussion, written-by
  • Adrian Chivers - backing vocals
  • Ayub Ogada - backing vocals, bass, lyre [nyatiti]
  • Alex Gifford - bass guitar, organ
  • Manu Katch茅 - drums
  • Jean-Pierre Alarcen - keyboards, lead guitar, percussion, written-by
  • Pablo Cook - percussion
  • Russell Kearney - percussion

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