Mother Nature
Angelique Kidjo
The potent rap of Zambia’s Sampa the Great on ‘Free & Equal’ is another highlight and ought to be adopted as a Black Lives Matter anthem. Kidjo allows her collaborators plenty of space, yet...
Mother Nature
Angelique Kidjo
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The potent rap of Zambia’s Sampa the Great on ‘Free & Equal’ is another highlight and ought to be adopted as a Black Lives Matter anthem. Kidjo allows her collaborators plenty of space, yet...
About
Mother Nature is Angélique’s first album of original music in 7 years, following 2019’s Grammy-winning Celia, and her 2018 radical reimagining of Talking Heads’ landmark LP Remain In Light. Mother Nature features Yemi Alade, Mr Eazi, Salif Keita, Burna Boy, Shungudzo, Zeynab, Lionel Loueke, Sampa The Great, Blue Lab Beats, Ghetto Boy, EARTHGANG, and -M-. Producers that worked on the album include Kel P (Burna Boy), James Poyser of The Roots, Vtek, Rexxie, Synematik, Blue Lab Beats, -M-, Brad Thomas Ackley, David Donatien and Dany Synthé. She began writing it in 2019 and it was created over the past year in quarantine.
Contents and tracklist
1. Choose Love
2. Dignity (with Yemi Alade)
3. Africa, One of a Kind (with Mr Eazi & Salif Keita)
4. Mother Nature
5. Do Yourself (with Burna Boy)
6. Menat for Me (feat. Shungudzo)
7. Omon Oba (with Zeynab & Lionel Loueke)
8. Free & Equal (with Sampa the Great)
9. Fired Up (feat. Blue Lab Beats & Ghetto Boy)
10. Take It or Leave It (with EARTHGANG)
11. Mycelium (with -M-)
12. One Africa (Indépendance Cha-Cha)
13. Flying High
Awards and reviews
July 2021
The potent rap of Zambia’s Sampa the Great on ‘Free & Equal’ is another highlight and ought to be adopted as a Black Lives Matter anthem. Kidjo allows her collaborators plenty of space, yet her own ebullient presence means there’s never any doubt whose name it is on the album’s cover.
