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- Artist: Barney Wilen
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- Release Date: 1973
- Genre: Jazz
Review
In 1970 Barney Wilen assembled a team of filmmakers, technicians, and musicians to travel to Africa for the purpose of recording the music of the native pygmy tribes. Upon returning to Paris two years later, he created Moshi, a dark, eccentric effort fusing avant jazz sensibilities with African rhythms, ambient sound effects, and melodies rooted in American blues traditions. Cut with French and African players including guitarist Pierre Chaze, pianist Michel Graillier, and percussionist Didier Leon, this is music with few precedents or followers, spanning from extraterrestrial dissonance to earthbound, street-legal funk. Wilen pays little heed to conventional structure, assembling tracks like "Afrika Freak Out" and "Zombizar" from spare parts of indeterminate origins. ~ Jason Ankeny, All Music GuideTracks
| Track Title | Composers | Performers | Time |
| Moshi | (16:37) | ||
| Giulde's Song to Binkirri | (2:57) | ||
| Gardenia Devil | Barney Wilen | (6:00) | |
| 14 Temps | (4:25) | ||
| Bamako Koulikaro | (3:34) | ||
| Afrika Freak Out | Barney Wilen | (2:24) | |
| Zombizar | Barney Wilen | (7:16) | |
| El Hadji | (:24) | ||
| Chechaoun | (12:07) | ||
| Tindi Abalessa | (10:30) | ||
| El Hadji | (1:00) | ||
| Balandji In Bobo | (3:07) | ||
| Sannu Ne Gheniyo | Barney Wilen | (4:54) | |
| El Hadji | (:19) |
