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Women CARE (KKV)
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Unni Wilhelmsen, Anneli Drecker, Simone and Lynni Treekrem met four African artists - Chiwoniso from Zimbabwe, Marie Daulne (lead singer of Zap Mama) from the Congo Democratic Republic / Belgian Congo, Tigist Bekele from Ethiopia, and Talike from Madagascar - in their respective homelands to make music together, and build relationships and networks using music as the common language. In cooperation with Norway CARE, this is the fulfillment of those meetings, recorded in Tanzania in the winter of 2005.

The musical mood is light: songs of hope and empowerment, in French and English, dominate the recording, in a gentle folk-pop style with strong local roots from the various African countries represented.
Audio samples are included below.

See also: Lullabies from the Axis of Evil

About the recording:
Unni Wilhelmsen, Anneli Drecker, Simone and Lynni Treekrem met the four africa artists Chiwoniso from Zimbabwe, Marie Daulne (lead singer i Zap Mama) from the Congo Democratic Republic / Belgian Congo, Tigist Bekele from Ethiopia, and Talike from Madagascar in their respective homelands to make music together, and build relationships and networks using music as the common language.

Care Norway have, in collaboratin with Kirkelig Kulturverksted and producer Sigbjørn Nedland taken the initiative to make a CD entitled “Women Care”. Recording took place in two parts in the winter of 2005 in Tanzania, in a studio in Dar-es-Salaam which Sigbjørn Nedland has built in collaboration with local musicians and NORAD. The band is made up of musicians from the Tanzanian capital who play guitars, drums and other instruments.

The songs are written in both English and French, whose start-point is that of the artists experiences of being a woman in today's world, from different beginnings and backgrounds, but with a hope, dream and goal in common.

The CD contains the following tracks :
1. African Woman/ Femme d'Afrique
2. Talking Hands/ Mains communicantes
3. Mali sista!/ Mali sista!
4. Woman don't cry/ Femme ne pleure pas
5. Dis-moi: Oui! Oui!/ Tell me: Yes! Yes!
6. A mother to them all - African woman 2/ Leur mère à toutes - femme d'Afrique 2
7. For the blues/ Pour le blues
8. Dusky one/ Le tenebreux
9. Lullaby/ Berceuse
10 Song for a modern woman/ Chanson pour une femme moderne
11 Fast car/ Voiture Rapide
12 Ye Africa konjoAfrican beauty/ Beautè africaine
13 Aia Rehe/ Where are you
14 An endless chain of mothers/ Une chaine interminable de mères

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