Open the Doors

• Artist: Sun Sounds Orchestra
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• Release Date: 1991
• Genre: Jazz

Review

If you have trouble digesting computer-driven worldbeat, travel back in time to memories of the age of steamship travel via a 13-piece, Detroit-based jazz orchestra playing the sweet sounds of classic African pop for the duration of the cruise. Got songs by legends Masekela, Fela, Miriam Makeba, Ibrahim and more. Got a horn-of-plenty updated highlife. Want Langa langa, you say? Mbalax? Bikutsi? Sorry, the engines can't take it. ~ Bob Tarte, All Music Guide

Tracks

Track Title	Composers	Performers	Time
Sister Rosie	Abdullah Ibrahim	Sun Sounds Orchestra, Mark Kieme	(4:01)
Letter to Prospect Township	Miriam Makeba	Sun Sounds Orchestra, Akunda Hollis	(3:16)
Isangoma		Sun Sounds Orchestra, Walt Szymanski	(5:07)
Special Branch	Hugh Masekela	Sun Sounds Orchestra, Lyman Woodard	(4:12)
Foyi-Foyi	Hugh Masekela	Sun Sounds Orchestra, Lyman Woodard	(4:12)
Ntyilo-Ntyilo		Sun Sounds Orchestra, Mark Kieme	(4:01)
Water No Get Enemy	Fela Kuti	Sun Sounds Orchestra, Mark Kieme, Walt Szymanski	(6:19)
Deep Six	Rick Steiger	Sun Sounds Orchestra, Akunda Hollis	(4:29)

Credits

John Sinclair (Liner Notes), Frank Bach (Coordination), Frank Bach (Package Design), Walt Szymanski (Performer), R.J. Spangler (Producer), Rick Steiger (Performer), Mark Kieme (Sax (Soprano)), Michael Iacopelli (Engineer), Lyman Woodard (Piano), R.J. Spangler (Performer)