LEEMOU, an AFRO-DISCO BEAT is composed around a Guitar Riff, Saskia has sampled from an Album she has played on from her First Reggae Band, named PI-Man & Memre Buku, sixteen years ago.This guitar riff is being played by Junior (British Guyana) and comes from the Afro-Carribean composition ‘Chicken’ by PI-man. Singer on LEEMOU is Mola Sylla (Senegal) who tributes in his lyrics the African Wood Sculpturists. Succeeded by Saskia’s Soulful Trumpet Playing, he sings Pure and Melancholic in his Native Language Wolof.
(Mola:) Dem tee lu ‘ngann / Dem tee lu ‘ngann / Ma Lobee Samba / Kuli ma chi / Sen ngi ndaat mbey / Mboyo leemouna / Mboyo leemouna / Mboyo leemouna / Yalla nalin / Yalla bourbi leemou / Mboyo leemouna lin / Aye aye aye aye // Dem tee lun ‘gann / Dem tee lun ‘gann / Ma lobee Samba / Kuli ma chi / Sen ngi ndaat mbey
from
Bodymusic,
released March 31, 1998
Leemou 5:41 / 100 bpm (Laroo/Sylla)
First released as song nr 8 on the album “Bodymusic” (March 30, 1998)
Music by S. Laroo/Laroo Music
Lyrics by M. Sylla/Laroo Music
Musicians:
Mola Sylla: vocals
Saskia Laroo: trumpet
Thanks to PI-man for permission to use the Guitar Sample, played by Junior, from the song Chicken, a composition of PI-man taken from his album Tukusy, & thanks to Junior for his Guitar Accompaniment (sampled)
Produced, Arranged, Computer Programmed & Recorded by Saskia Laroo & Rob Gaasterland
Preproduction (Programming, Recording) by Saskia Laroo at Saskia ‘s Studios, Amsterdam, the Netherlands
Mixed by Rob Gaasterland at Studio de Boot, floating somewhere in Amsterdam, the Netherlands (1998)
Thanks to Midi Amsterdam for Studio Devices Support