Another bonus pick! Today’s bonus album is Ya from Khadja Nin. Khadja is an Afro-Soul singer from Burundi. The genre’s listed include Pop, East African Music, and African Music. Some of those are vague but I guess all genres are. But this is basically African Pop.
This is a situation where I want to like the music more than I do. Mainly because while I selectively like some Pop, I’m not a huge Pop fan. Still I think this is solid for what it is.
Rating: 7.5
Favorite Track(s): “Turasa” stood out to me. “Damu Ya Salaam” also pretty good. “Africa Obota” got my attention. I like how it evolves as a song. “Kembo” is decent too. “Shadow Man” is pretty anthemic.
Keep or Trash: Keep. Mainly because I’m not deleting my only album from Burundi. My copy is missing a song though and I’m not replacing it.
Background
Every day, or nearly every day anyhow, I will randomly select an album from my collection of digital music, listen to it, and share it here. – Jayne
My wife and I are board gamers and we gamify nearly everything in life. This includes our music listening. We use a dice catapult to roll dice and then use the dice results to pick our vinyl listens. So why not do something similar for the blog?
I have made the randomizer table I use for picking the album of the day available! What? It’s a simple table but uses some weird dice. If you are not familiar, if you say D30 that means a 30 sided die. These are the dice the randomizer table uses: D30, D4, D8, D10, D12, D14, and D20. The D14 and D30 are unique but you can buy cheap packs of dice with those in them off the internet.
The basic steps are to 1) roll the D30. That picks the starting letter or if it’s a number. 2) Then use the chart roll the die associated with the first letter to pick the second letter. If you get “Other” that means numbers or some other weird character. If none of those exist re-roll. 3) Once you have the second letter you can use that to roll for a third letter if needed. 4) That should get you down to a few artists and from there you pick dice based on the number of artists. 5) finally for the artist selected you roll a die for the number of albums listed. Then you have your Random Album to listen to….
Download the Random Album Selector Table here: