ASA (ASHA)

En av de meste interessante artistene vi kom over på vår tur til Nigeria i høst var artisten Asa (ut.: asha, eller asja om du vil). Perfekt småpolitisk popsoul vakkert og følsomt produsert av den blinde nigerianske superprodusenten Cobhams Ausuquo. Her er videoen til min favoritt, Fire On The Maountain:




There is fire on the mountain,
and nobody seems to be on the run.
Oh there is fire on the mountain top,
and no one is'ah running.

I wake up in the morning...
tell you what I see on my TV screen :
I see the blood of an innocent child,
and everybody's watching.

Now, I'm looking out of my window,
and what do I see ?
I see an army of soldiers that're
marching across the street, heh...

What did they say to make you so blind,
to your conscience and reason ?
Could it be love for your country,
or for the gun you use in killing ? So...

(So) There is fire on the mountain,
and nobody seems to be on the run.
Oh there is fire on the mountain top,
and no one is'ah running.

Heh, Mister Loverman !
Can I get a chance to talk to you ?
'cause you are fooling with a dead man's corpse,
and you don't know what you do. Oh...

So little Lucy turns sixteen,
and like the movie she's been seeing,
she has a lover in her daddy.
She can't tell nobody...
'till she makes the evening news.

(For) There is fire on the mountain,
and nobody seems to be on the run.
Oh there is fire on the mountain top,
and no one is'ah running. Oh yes.

One day the river will overflow,
and there'll be nowhere for us to go ;
and we will run, run...
wishing we had put out the fire, oh no...

www.asa-official.com
www.myspace.com/asaofficial

og! (ikke si det til noen men) her kan man laste ned hele albumet, eller så kan du betale for det f.eks her.