The Very Best - The Warm Heart Of Africa

The mixtape was in my Top 3 albums for 2008, so I'm excited

Press blah:

The Very Best’s—European production duo Radioclit and Malawian singer Esau Mwamwaya—debut full-length Warm Heart of Africa will be released this fall on Green Owl. The album follows the surprising global success of Esau Mwamwaya & Radioclit Are The Very Best, a free mixtape made available online late last year. Without promotional assistance or financial support, the collection of well-known pop, dance, afro and indie tracks remixed by Radioclit featuring Mwamwaya’s singing in Chichewa, Swahili, Portuguese and English charted more than 200,000 downloads and was hailed by tastemakers including Pitchfork, FADER, and Gorilla vs. Bear among many others. In anticipation of the new album, the band will cross the Atlantic for a series of singular U.S. performances including stops in New York City and Chicago’s Pitchfork Music Festival. See dates below.

While The Very Best mixtape caught fire with Mwamwaya singing over remixes of Michael Jackson (Free Willy theme), Vampire Weekend (“Cape Cod Kwassa Kwassa”), Hans Zimmer (True Romance theme) and M.I.A. (“Paper Planes”), the full-length consists of original songs. For the recording, the band brings some guests on board: M.I.A. for “Rain Dance” and Vampire Weekend’s Ezra Koenig sings on “Warm Heart Of Africa.”

cool! thought the mixtape was quite excellent myself... intrigued to hear if the original material can stack up!

c

Yeah, I dug that mixtape too.