Stop and Hear the Music

Cameroonian bassist and singer, Richard Bona’s CD Tiki is one of my favorites. It makes me feel great. He plays a lot of the instruments on it himself. The rhythms on the tracks are complex and exciting. The vocals are great.

The first time I heard this CD, I was sitting on the floor flipping through a catalog, wondering why everything in catalogs seem so expensive and unappealing to me. My husband was at the computer. He was going through a stage of searching out and listening to bass players he’d never heard of before, when he stumbled upon Richard Bona. When he played a sample of the first song on Tiki I wasn’t blown away or anything. Actually I don’t really like the first two songs on the CD. I always skip them. But after the first two songs, it’s great. My husband bought the CD and I promptly kidnapped it.