Geoffrey Oryema

   
Artist: Geoffrey Oryema

   Genre(s): 
Retro
   Rock: Pop-Rock
   

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Discography:


   
 Beat The Border

   Year: 1993   
Tracks: 10


   
 Exile

   Year: 1990   
Tracks: 10

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Most artists take in to pay their dues, but very few have to be contraband out of their nascency countries to avoid death on the way. But for Geoffrey Oryema, that was the only way to make it. Born in Uganda, he was the logos of a civil handmaid world Health Organization was a police headman and then a locker minister and from his father he conditioned the local kinsfolk music, as well as the nanga (the harp), in addition to perusing Western music in school. However, these were life-threatening multiplication in the rural area, with the unbalanced authoritarian Idi Amin in power, and in 1977, Oryema's fatherhood hide dupe, organism one of many world Health Organization was murdered by the armed forces. Oryema knew he was likely to be killed presently, unless he got out. Thanks to friends, he was black-market across the molding to Kenya in the body of a car to refuge. Or, sort of, congenator refuge. He was in a place with no home or friends and began his wanderings, which sawing machine him finally devising his way to Paris.


In the early '80s, Paris was Africa central, at least as far as music went. But it was the Africa of the dancefloor, given a agile studio spit and polish with synthesizers and drum machines -- all identical far from the more than introverted musicality of Oryema's songs. However, he persisted, becoming influenced as much by tilt & roll as anything else, finally creating a shimmering tolerant of powerfully stock-still African pop which attracted the Real World label. He was opposite with producer Brian Eno for Exile, which was very practically the curate's ballock -- good in parts, specially Oryema's parts, only too atmospheric elsewhere. With that under his belt, he began to play the WOMAD international circuit of humankind music festivals, returning to the studio for 1993's Beat the Border, where his lucullan melodies and open-voiced singing created a succulent whole. Four long time later came the third album, Nox to Night, which was decidedly more Western in its influences, melding Africa, Europe, and the U.S. into a solid (in division thanks to producer Daniel Lanois), without dilution of whatsoever of the strands. Now based in the French state of Normandy, he continued to alive quietly, cathartic Heart in 2000.