Tunula Eno

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Total Tracks: 14   Total Length: 67:13

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Soulful

VintageJane

This album speaks to the soul. It is proof positive that music is a universal language.

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Achingly gorgeous

warmglass

If nothing else, download the title track. Even if you don't understand a word of the language, Tunula Eno is a breathtaking song that is so filled with beauty and loss it will bring both tears to your eyes and joy to your heart.

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Sweet Sadness

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This album is a beautiful elegy and yet joyful in life. The title track is hauntingly gorgeous. I am not sure wether to cry or to feel elation. The love is overpowering. The mystic and otherworldly Maama Yi Baaba is perfect for the slate blue sky of a full moon night full of spirits. Soroti Boys Song is a joyfull fife filled dance of youth. Other highlights are Dawaya Mwoyo's sparkling spring-fed waters and the realization of hope and freedom of Emengo's flight. I recommend these songs in particular.

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Samite’s Tunula Eno is a musical memoir about the last year of the Ugandan singer/songwriter’s wife’s life. Unlike many similar records — the Eels’ Electro-Shock Blues, about the deaths of singer/songwriter E’s mother and sister, comes immediately to mind — Tunula Eno is not a difficult, depressing listen. Of course, this may well have much to do with the fact that the average Western listener won’t understand the lyrics, which are written in Samite’s native tongue, but even on a musical level, there’s a lightness to Tunula Eno, a buoyancy familiar to fans of Ugandan and other South African musics, that lifts the spirits even on comparatively downbeat songs, like the delicate title track, or “Yazala Arambuti”: reveries for voice and acoustic guitar that would not sound out of place on one of Cat Stevens’ early-’70s records. The closing “Dawaya Mwoyo,” a mostly-instrumental farewell for thumb piano and percussion, ends the album on an elegiac but oddly uplifting note. – Stewart Mason

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