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Discography
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2019 - 100% recorded over 10 fresh and furious days at Papis Konate's Studio in Dakar with Senegal's finest. Californian mbalax is born !! "It feels like a concept album, abounding with positive energy, restoring some much needed balance to our zeitgeist. You have such a talent for analysing the human condition and interpreting it in song. That pure, shining voice sounds better than ever and fits perfectly with the imagination and artistry of those incredible musicians. A love letter to Senegal and to the art of songwriting… " --Bradley Brady
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2016 - Half recorded with master bassist / producer Etu Dieng in Washington, D.C., with a further blazing six tracks recorded at Papis Konate's Studio in Dakar with Senegal's best, YES encourages us to say Yes to Life & to Love.
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2009 - Produced by Cameroonian bassist / producer Andre Manga, recorded in Los Angeles and at Jimi Mbaye's studio in Dakar, Senegal with five members of Youssou N'Dour's Le Super Etoile, Amina is a richly layered musical feast. Soaring melodies over a heady stew of vintage mbalax.
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Produced by Andre Manga and featuring brilliant LA world / jazz musicians from Cameroon, Senegal, Brazil, Uruguay and the USA, Ashley's song-stories shimmer with sunny energy and finesse.
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Ashley's first independent and most acoustic album. She recorded the backing tracks in Paris with genius Ivorian drummer Paco Sery and monster Cameroonian bassist Hilaire Penda (R.I.P.), then pieced together the music over a year of laughter and musical tinkering in Rod Beale's basement studio on Portobello Road in London. Sweet, swinging, folk-esque, straight-up beauty.
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Ashley's EPIC second release for Virgin UK, who flew some of the hottest West African Paris-based musicians to record in a residential studio in the English countryside. A complex, earthy, rich, sonically BIG album, reflective of a year that Ashley lost her father, got married, and gave birth to her son, Sundiata. Pomegranate is the marriage of light and dark.
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When Ashley recorded her debut album, Hi, for Virgin UK, she told herself, "I will never make a first album again." Hi received five star reviews in the notoriously critical British press and established Ashley as having "a cult following for the discerning few." Produced by Philip Giffin, recorded in LA with jazz luminaries such as Vinnie Colaiuta, Alex Acuna, and Abraham Laboriel, a bold / sweet / daring album.