Mamayo
The Game
© 2003 YOLANDA CHARLES (5036865004483)
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An inspiring album with funk at it's heart, soul as it's expression and vocal performances from Carleen Anderson and Shaun Escoffery that will truly move you.
tracks
- 1 Intro
- 2 The Game
- 3 The Wheel
- 4 Hey Hey
- 5 Goodbye
- 6 These Times
- 7 No Compromise
- 8 Civilized
- 9 Waiting
- 10 No Tomorrows
- 11 Don't Step in Time
- 12 Born to Love
- 13 You Heard it Right
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MamaYo is the inspiration of Yolanda Charles. She has played bass for Paul Weller, Aztec Camera, Marcella Detroit, Incognito, Robbie Williams, Mick Jagger and Dave Stewart and more recently, BB King.
Her love of early blues/funk and 80's soul have been brought together in the form of MamaYo. Entitled The Game, this is an album of her songs performed by guest vocalists, Carleen Anderson, Shaun Escoffery, Mandy Lecointe and Vanessa Freeman, with poet/rapper The Liegeman.
The idea behind the project is to have taken part in "An album recorded today that has some of the qualities of old, where you can hear the people on those records, giving the songs real character and a place in time."
Most tracks feature the basic band line-up, drums, bass, guitars, keyboards with occasional horns. She has used it as "An opportunity to work with people whom I really admire for their spirit and their love of music"
For more information about Yolanda, the Mamayo project and other music, please go to www.groove4dayz.com
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Great bass playing...lotta of funky stuff
author: FunkyfishGreat bass playing deep and groovy, a lot of great singer joining in too, this is a CD that must be in your collection if you are a funk and soul lover!!! GET IT!!!
- author: Blues & Soul Magazine
...It's a refreshingly eclectic brew, blending funk, soul and rock flavours. Carleen Anderson fronts the strident title track, which is powered by muscular funk-meets-rock dynamics. Shaun Escoffery also contributes a couple of impressive vocal performances. Yolanda Charles's....funky bass...is an ever-present feature that gives "The Game" real cohesion. Well worth checking out.
- author: Bass Guitar Magazine
...The Game is a remarkable album, conceived, written, arranged and produced by bassist Yolanda Charles. Yolanda has assembled a band populated by some of the best musicians and vocalists in the business, including drummer Miles Bould.....In these times of over-produced girl and boy bands clogging up the charts, albums like this truly are a breath of fresh air. Highly recommended....
- author: Keith Ames Musician Magazine
Wishing to create a recording where character comes first and technology plays a supporting role, Yolanda - together with husband Miles Bould on drums - hits the listener with a raw mix of dance-floor funk, soul and blues.....If your heart lies in the grooves of hand-crafted music, your whole body will be moved here. Top class.
This goes to 11.
author: Angie Giles - LIFE PROJECTThe more I listen to this album, the more I find to love about it. Everyone involved in this project is a true artist in their own right and the respective skills they contribute make this a very special album. Honest and authentic, it's the musical embodiment of a host of deeply talented musicians and singers being great at what they do best - and enjoying themselves in the process. 11 out of 10!
- author: Dirk
If you are an eager reader of CD booklets and study carefully who played on a record, you’re certainly familiar with Yolanda Charles. She was featured as bass player on Carleen Anderson’s Blessed Burden, Misty Oldland’s Supernatural, Urban Species’ Listen album and also appeared on records by Aztec Camera, Robbie Williams or Paul Weller (but that’s hardly the music featured here, so you are forgiven if you don’t know about that, I didn’t know it myself before I had a look at Yolanda’s website). Yolanda is not only a talented bass and guitar player. She can also write, arrange and produce good songs. Thanks to her previous session work she also knows some of the UK’s best singers and invited Carleen Anderson, Shaun Escoffery, Vanessa Freeman and Mandy Lecointe to join her to present an album “recorded today that has some of the qualities of old, where you can hear the people on those records, giving the songs real character and a place in time.“ The album’s opener is the programmatic Intro that sees the Liegeman rapping about this album (”It’s time to liberate yourself and feel free/Whether or not success is gauged commercially/ True success is in the end product musically/ And then u broke the chains which restrained it“). And then things start to become really good with the funk-rock of The Game featuring Carleen Anderson as singer. Carleen also sings on the warm and mellow soul song Born To Love, which just happenes to be one of the best songs Carleen has ever recorded. [read the full review: http://blog.jazz-not-jazz.com/archives/2005/04/30/mamayo-the-game/ ]