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Amazones Power is the second studio album by West-African female musical collective Les Amazones d'Afrique. It was released through Real World Records on January 28, 2020, almost three years after their debut album, République Amazone. The album was recorded between May 2018 and April 2019 in Mali, France and Spain, and similar to the debut album, was produced by Irish-Parisian musician Liam Farrell The album marks a change in the line-up of the collective since the debut album, with only original members Mamani Keïta and Rokia Koné returning, but joined by a number of new singers from the continent of Africa as well as the African diaspora. The album establishes a core membership of four singers, who also form the line-up for the band's live shows: Mamani Keïta, Fafa Ruffino, Niariu, and Kandy Guira. Other vocalists on the album are Rokia Koné, Ami Yerewolo, Nacera Ouali Mesbah, Amadou Dembélé, Boy-Fall and Jon Grace. The album has a total of 19 featured singers, with the title track 'Power' including 16 voices from 3 different continents. The album's lyrics are sung in a variety of different African languages, as well as English and French. From Wikipedia (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amazone...) under Creative Commons Attribution CC-BY-SA 3.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/...)
