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OUT OF AFRICA Music/Lyrics: Helmut Lotti The heartbeat of Africa can be felt from the first to the last beat in the titlesong "Out of Africa". And what is even better, the text is in unison with this tender black continent. Helmut Lotti, who is the author of this song, will make you feel his fascination for this immense continent which he got to know through his concerts as "a world where the essence of life itself is dominating: the necessity to survive". Like an ode to the rhythms of the African drums, Out of Africa will take you on a lyric discovery of this dazzling biotope where antelopes and lions are frisking about. The cultural diversity of Africa is furthermore reflected in the various arrangements by Helmut and Wim Bohets: thanks to their open-mindedness, they capture the expanse of the landscape and the vastness of this continent as a whole. CIRCLE OF LIFE Music: Elton John - Lyrics: Tim Rice Circle of life does not really have its roots in Africa, other than in the magical world of Walt Disney where the rule applies "If you can dream it, you can do it". Tim Rice, a renowned musical librettist and fanatical collector of pop music wrote a text for the music by Sir Elton John, which is uncontestably one of the most successful of the soundtrack of Disney's mega production The Lion King , this masterpiece of animated cartoon which moved young and old alike with the story of Simba, the lion cub who is facing the difficult task of taking over from his father. Circle of life therefore evokes Africa‘s fauna and flora. From the moment it was released, the song made its own way outside the world of animated cartoons. In Helmut Lotti's version, all its qualities as an evergreen stand out. THE LION SLEEPS TONIGHT Music/Lyrics: Luigi Creatore/Hugo Peretti/George David Weiss Mbube Wimoweh – litterally: The lion sleeps – is a traditional Zulu song which achieved immortality in 1939 with Solomon Linda, a South African from Durban and his quartet The Evening Birds. The frightened native people are singing this song to give themselves courage. Sung in the evenings around the campfire, this song makes them believe that the lion sleeps and the native people have therefore nothing to fear from this King of the savannah. The original by Solomon Linda became soon known amongst the Jivers of the black townships, the most famous of which is undoubtedly the group Ladysmith Black Mambazo who recorded another version of it in 1990 on its CD Do it Accapella. But also in the 50ies, Miriam Makeba had released a different version in Xhosa. It is not possible anymore to retrace exactly how it got overseas, but it is certain that the song translated as Mbube Wimoweh and abbreviated as Wimoweh is recorded in the early fifties by The Weavers and Karl Denver. Under the title The Lion sleeps tonight it becomes world famous in 1961 in its version close harmony sung by the Tokens who originally came from America. One year later, the Strangers bring it to their home country under the title Awelawel Wadisdana Oekandana to celebrate it for the first time as a hit in Antwerp. In 1972, the song is again a huge success for British singer Dave Newman, and ten years later for the English group Tight Fit. AFRICAN SUNRISE Music/Lyrics: Peter Koelewijn Being the official producer of the Helmut Lotti Classic saga, Peter Koelewijn sometimes accompanies him on his tours in South Africa. The Dutchman therefore knows what it's all about when he adds spice and African ingredients of this up-tempo song. This is not a traditional African song "because I'm neither Afrikaner nor Zulu". But obviously the modern vision of a European who is in awe with admiration and amazement for this "second paradise" which is Africa. He got the impression that it's "so difficult to express" when he discovered the Nature Reserves and immense landscapes while travelling across the country by train. Thanks to the poetry of the music, the reality of the sunrise, which is the title of the song, is reflected by the promising dawn of this impressive continent. MINAPENDAWE Music: Will Tura - Lyrics: Helmut Lotti The love of Africa is omnipresent in the project Out of Africa, but recognition for this piece of music must also go to Will Tura and his musical talents. Six months prior, Helmut Lotti had asked Will Tura to compose a song especially for this CD. To the majestic melody written by Will Tura, Helmut himself added a deeply moving English text which was developped from Will's title Minapendawe and can be translated roughly by "I love you much". He depicts the less pleasant sides of Africa in a part of the world which is fighting against hunger and deprivation. The sadness of this situation is not pictured in an abstract way but in very concrete terms through the moving story of Minapendawe where "the innocence of children is in stark contrast with the harsh and pitiless univers of a mother who is looking in vain for food to nourrish her offspring." Source - official site of Helmut Lotti http://www.helmutlottiofficial.com | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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