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Welela is a Miriam Makeba
album mixed at Condulmer Recording Studios in Venice
, Italy
by Allan Goldberg of Phonocomp in 1989, except for "Pata Pata
" which was mixed at Psycho Studio in Milan
, February 1990.
— Lead vocal
Miriam Makeba
Miriam Makeba , nicknamed Mama Africa, was a Grammy Award winning South African singer and civil rights activist....
album mixed at Condulmer Recording Studios in Venice
Venice
Venice is a city in northern Italy which is renowned for the beauty of its setting, its architecture and its artworks. It is the capital of the Veneto region...
, Italy
Italy
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by Allan Goldberg of Phonocomp in 1989, except for "Pata Pata
Pata Pata
"Pata Pata" is a song by South African singer Miriam Makeba. The song was written by fellow southern African artist Dorothy Masuka and first released by Makeba in 1957 when she still lived in South Africa. The song was released in the United States in 1967 for her studio album of the same name...
" which was mixed at Psycho Studio in Milan
Milan
Milan is the second-largest city in Italy and the capital city of the region of Lombardy and of the province of Milan. The city proper has a population of about 1.3 million, while its urban area, roughly coinciding with its administrative province and the bordering Province of Monza and Brianza ,...
, February 1990.
Track listing
- "Amampondo" (Miriam MakebaMiriam MakebaMiriam Makeba , nicknamed Mama Africa, was a Grammy Award winning South African singer and civil rights activist....
) – 5:20 - "African Sunset" (Sipho MabuseSipho MabuseSipho "Hotstix" Mabuse was born in Johannesburg on 2 November 1951. Mabuse got his start in the African soul group the Beaters in the mid-1970s. After a successful tour of Zimbabwe they changed the group's name to Harari...
) – 5:49 - "Djiu De Glainha" (José Carlos SchwarzJosé Carlos SchwarzJosé Carlos Schwarz was a Bissau-Guinean poet and musician. He is widely regarded as one of the most important and influential musicians of Guinea-Bissau....
) – 4:08 - "A luta continuaA luta continuaA luta continua was the rallying cry of the FRELIMO movement during Mozambique’s war for independence...
" (Makeba) – 4:40 - "Soweto Blues" (Hugh MasekelaHugh MasekelaHugh Ramopolo Masekela is a South African trumpeter, flugelhornist, cornetist, composer, and singer.-Early life:Masekela was born in Kwa-Guqa Township, Witbank, South Africa. He began singing and playing piano as a child...
, S. Todd) – 4:18 - "Welela" (Nelson Lee) – 3:18
- "Hapo Zamani" (Makeba, Dorothy MasukaDorothy MasukaDorothy Masuka is a jazz singer who was born in Bulawayo, Zimbabwe in 1935, then called Southern Rhodesia. She was the fourth of seven children and her mother was Zulu while her father was a Zambian hotel chef. Still, she attended a Catholic school deemed good by the standards of education allowed...
) – 4:29 - "Pata PataPata Pata"Pata Pata" is a song by South African singer Miriam Makeba. The song was written by fellow southern African artist Dorothy Masuka and first released by Makeba in 1957 when she still lived in South Africa. The song was released in the United States in 1967 for her studio album of the same name...
" (Makeba, Jerry RagovoyJerry RagovoyJordan "Jerry" Ragovoy was an American songwriter and record producer.His best-known composition "Time Is on My Side" was made famous by The Rolling Stones, although it had been recorded earlier by Kai Winding and Irma Thomas...
) – 3:53 - "Saduva" (Makeba) – 4:43
- "Africa" (Keith Mathela) – 4:33
Personnel
Miriam MakebaMiriam Makeba
Miriam Makeba , nicknamed Mama Africa, was a Grammy Award winning South African singer and civil rights activist....
— Lead vocal
- Sipho Mabuse, Dorothy Masuka, Doreen Webster — Backing vocals
- Keith Mathela — GuitarGuitarThe guitar is a plucked string instrument, usually played with fingers or a pick. The guitar consists of a body with a rigid neck to which the strings, generally six in number, are attached. Guitars are traditionally constructed of various woods and strung with animal gut or, more recently, with...
s - Claude Deppa — TrumpetTrumpetThe trumpet is the musical instrument with the highest register in the brass family. Trumpets are among the oldest musical instruments, dating back to at least 1500 BCE. They are played by blowing air through closed lips, producing a "buzzing" sound which starts a standing wave vibration in the air...
- Claudio Pascoli, Michael "Bami" Rose — SaxSaxophoneThe saxophone is a conical-bore transposing musical instrument that is a member of the woodwind family. Saxophones are usually made of brass and played with a single-reed mouthpiece similar to that of the clarinet. The saxophone was invented by the Belgian instrument maker Adolphe Sax in 1846...
- Emmanuel "Chulo" Gatewood — BassBass guitarThe bass guitar is a stringed instrument played primarily with the fingers or thumb , or by using a pick....
- Damon Duewhite — DrumsDrum kitA drum kit is a collection of drums, cymbals and often other percussion instruments, such as cowbells, wood blocks, triangles, chimes, or tambourines, arranged for convenient playing by a single person ....
- Smith Ailar — PercussionPercussion instrumentA percussion instrument is any object which produces a sound when hit with an implement or when it is shaken, rubbed, scraped, or otherwise acted upon in a way that sets the object into vibration...
Production
- Produced By Sipho Mabuse & Roberto Meglioli
- Post-Production By Allan Goldberg
- Recorded & Engineered By Toby Alington & Jean Trenchant
- Mixed By Sipho Mabuse & Allan Goldberg