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| - | '''Wally Badarou''' (born '''Waliou Jacques Daniel Isheola Badarou''', 22 March 1955, [[Paris]], France) is a musician from [[Benin]]. | + | #: ''A string '''quartet'''.'' |
| - | + | # The set of four [[musicians]] who perform a piece of music together in four parts. | |
| - | ==Biography== | + | #: ''A '''quartet''' of violinists''. |
| - | A [[synthesizer]] specialist, Badarou was the longtime associate of the British band [[Level 42]], known for its blend of [[funk]], pop, [[soul music|soul]] and rock. He has co-written, performed on and (later) co-produced a number of the band's tracks since its debut album in 1981. | + | # A [[group]] of [[four]]. |
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| - | Though not an official member of Level 42, he has long been considered an informal "fifth member" of what has otherwise usually been a [[quartet]] with bassist [[Mark King (musician)|Mark King]], drummer [[Phil Gould (musician)|Phil Gould]], keyboardist [[Mike Lindup]] and guitarist [[Boon Gould]]. | + | |
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| - | All the while close to [[Island Records]]'s founder [[Chris Blackwell]], he was one of the [[Compass Point All Stars]] (with [[Sly and Robbie]], [[Barry Reynolds]], [[Mikey Chung]] and [[Uziah "Sticky" Thompson]]), the in-house recording team of [[Compass Point Studios]] responsible for a long series of [[album]]s of the 1980s recorded by [[Grace Jones]], [[Joe Cocker]], [[Mick Jagger]], [[Black Uhuru]], Gwen Guthrie, [[Jimmy Cliff]] and [[Gregory Isaacs]]. | + | |
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| - | Badarou's keyboard playing could also be heard on albums by [[Robert Palmer (singer)|Robert Palmer]], [[Marianne Faithfull]], [[Herbie Hancock]], [[M (band)|M]] ([[Pop Muzik]]), [[Talking Heads]], [[Foreigner (band)|Foreigner]], [[Power Station (band)|Power Station]], [[Melissa Etheridge]], [[Manu Dibango]] and [[Miriam Makeba]]. | + | |
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| - | He produced albums by [[Fela Kuti]], [[Salif Keita]], [[Wasis Diop]], [[Trilok Gurtu]], [[Carlinhos Brown]]; wrote for the [[film]]s ''[[Countryman (film)|Countryman]]'', and ''[[Kiss of the Spider Woman (film)|Kiss of the Spider Woman]]''; plus directed and wrote for [[Jean-Paul Goude]]'s French Bicentennial parade, Bastille Day 1989. | + | |
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| - | His solo [[instrumental]] work includes two albums: ''[[Echoes]]'' (1983) and ''[[Words Of A Mountain]]'' (1988). The former included "[[Chief Inspector]]", "[[Mambo]]" ([[Sampling (music)|sampled]] for [[Massive Attack]]'s "[[Daydreaming (Massive Attack song)|Daydreaming]]" (''[[Blue Lines]]'' album)), and "Hi-Life". "Chief Inspector" peaked at #46 in the [[UK Singles Chart]] in October 1985. | + | |
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| - | The ''[[Words Of A Mountain]]'' album is believed to be one of the first fully tapeless recordings in contemporary/new-age history: co-pioneering the computerised [[home studio]] concept with other electronic musicians of his generation, Badarou established a reputation on the field with his extensive use of [[Sequential Circuits Prophet 5]], [[New England Digital]] [[Synclavier]], and custom voice-controlled [[Yamaha]] digital mixers. | + | |
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| - | Badarou also helped organise the [[Kora All Africa Music Awards]] in 1997, while co-writing and producing ''So Why'', a charity album for the [[International Committee of the Red Cross|ICRC]], conceived as a call against [[ethnic cleansing]] in Africa, featuring [[Youssou N'Dour]] and [[Papa Wemba]]. | + | |
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| - | He has embraced stage acting since the early 2000s, showing interest in aviation, movies, science-fiction and philosophy. | + | |
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| - | By the end of 2009, starting with ''Fisherman'', a 15 mn long "''marathon in afro-beat territory'' ", Badarou released his latest album (''The Unnamed Trilogy''): online exclusively, one single at a time, via the JukeSticker, a direct and sharable transaction tool: "''At very long last, my fans are to receive the music that never stopped haunting me all these years. The whole of it will be available as a physical collector set, once the three albums are fully revealed'' ". | + | |
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| - | ==Discography== | + | |
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| - | ===Solo=== | + | |
| - | *1979: ''Back to Scales Tonight'' | + | |
| - | *1984: ''[[Echoes]]'' | + | |
| - | *1985: ''[[Chief Inspector]]'' (EP) | + | |
| - | *1989: ''[[Words of a Mountain]]'' | + | |
| - | *1997: ''So Why'' | + | |
| - | *2001: ''Colors of Silence : Musical poetry for Yoga'' | + | |
| - | *2009: ''The Unnamed Trilogy'' | + | |
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| - | ===Movie scores=== | + | |
| - | *1981: Dickie Jobson: ''Countryman'' | + | |
| - | *1982: [[Nathalie Delon]] & Yves Deschamps: ''They Called It an Accident'' | + | |
| - | *1985: [[Hector Babenco]]: ''Kiss Of The SpiderWoman'' (additional music) | + | |
| - | *1991: [[Lol Creme]]: ''The Lunatic'' | + | |
| - | *1997: [[Idrissa Ouedraogo]]: ''Kini & Adams'' | + | |
| - | *1997: [[Don Letts]] & Rick Elgood: ''DanceHall Queen'' | + | |
| - | *1999: [[Chris Browne]]: ''Third World Cop'' | + | |
| - | *2000: [[John Berry (singer)|John Berry]]: ''Boesman & Lena'' | + | |
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| - | ===Producer (and co-producer)=== | + | |
| - | *1979: Janic Prévost - ''J'veux d'la Tendresse'' | + | |
| - | *1981: [[Alain Chamfort]] - ''Amour Année Zéro'' | + | |
| - | *1983: [[Marianne Faithfull]] - ''A Child's Adventure'' (& co-writer) | + | |
| - | *1985: [[Level 42]] - ''World Machine'' (& co-writer) | + | |
| - | *1986: [[Alain Chamfort]] - ''Tendres Fièvres'' (& co-writer) | + | |
| - | *1986: [[Fela Ransome Kuti]] - ''Teacher Don't Teach Me NonSense'' | + | |
| - | *1987: Level 42 - ''[[Running in the Family]]'' (& co-writer) | + | |
| - | *1988: Level 42 - ''[[Staring at the Sun (Level 42 album)|Staring at the Sun]]'' (& co-writer) | + | |
| - | *1990: Level 42 - ''[[Guaranteed (Level 42 album)|Guaranteed]]'' (& co-writer) | + | |
| - | *1993: Level 42 - ''[[Forever Now (Level 42 album)|Forever Now]]'' (& co-writer) | + | |
| - | *1995: [[Salif Keita]] - ''Folon'' | + | |
| - | *1996: Carlinhos Brown - ''AlfaGamaBetizado'' | + | |
| - | *1998: [[Yannick Noah]] & Zam Zam - ''Zam Zam'' | + | |
| - | *1998: Wasis Diop - ''Toxu'' | + | |
| - | *2000: Trilok Gurtu -''The Beat Of Love'' (& co-writer) | + | |
| - | *2001: [[i Muvrini]] - ''Umani'' | + | |
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| - | ===Session player=== | + | |
| - | *1979: [[M (band)|M]] - ''New-York, London, Paris, Munich'' ("[[Pop Muzik]]") | + | |
| - | *1979: [[Myriam Makeba]] - ''[[Comme une symphonie d'amour]]'' | + | |
| - | *1980: Bernie Lyon - ''Bernie Lyon'' | + | |
| - | *1980: [[Grace Jones]] - ''Warm Leatherette'' | + | |
| - | *1980: [[Grace Jones]] - ''Nightclubbing'' | + | |
| - | *1980: [[M (band)|M]] - ''The Official Secrets Act'' | + | |
| - | *1980: [[Lizzy Mercier Descloux]] - ''Mambo Nassau'' | + | |
| - | *1980: [[Level 42]] - ''The Early Tapes'' (& co-writer) | + | |
| - | *1981: [[Level 42]] - ''Level 42'' (& co-writer) | + | |
| - | *1981: Bernie Lyon - ''I'm Living In The Sunshine'' | + | |
| - | *1981: [[Gibson Brothers]] - ''Quartier Latin'' | + | |
| - | *1981: Barry Reynolds - ''I Scare Myself'' | + | |
| - | *1981: [[Jimmy Cliff]] - ''Give The People What They Want'' | + | |
| - | *1982: [[Charlélie Couture]] - ''Pochette Surprise'' | + | |
| - | *1982: [[Joe Cocker]] - ''Sheffield Steel'' | + | |
| - | *1982: [[Black Uhuru]] - ''Chill Out'' | + | |
| - | *1982: [[Gregory Isaacs]] - ''Night Nurse'' | + | |
| - | *1982: [[Grace Jones]] - ''Living My Life'' | + | |
| - | *1982: [[Gwen Guthrie]] - ''Gwen Guthrie'' | + | |
| - | *1982: [[Robin Scott]] & Shikisha - ''Jive Shikisha !'' | + | |
| - | *1982: [[Level 42]] - ''The Pursuit Of Accidents'' (& co-writer) | + | |
| - | *1983: [[Level 42]] - ''Standing In The Light'' (& co-writer) | + | |
| - | *1983: [[Talking Heads]] - ''Speaking In Tongues'' | + | |
| - | *1983: [[Tom-Tom Club]] - ''Close To The Bone'' | + | |
| - | *1984: [[Level 42]] - ''True Colours'' (& co-writer) | + | |
| - | *1984: [[Foreigner (band)|Foreigner]] - ''Agent Provocateur'' | + | |
| - | *1985: [[Mick Jagger]] - ''She's The Boss'' | + | |
| - | *1985: [[Power Station (band)|Power Station]] - ''Some Like It Hot'' | + | |
| - | *1985: [[Gwen Guthrie]] - ''Just For You'' | + | |
| - | *1985: [[Sly & Robbie]] - ''Language Barrier'' | + | |
| - | *1985: [[Robert Palmer (singer)|Robert Palmer]] - ''Riptide'' | + | |
| - | *1988: [[Manu Dibango]] - ''Electric Africa'' | + | |
| - | *1988: [[Melissa Etheridge]] - ''Melissa Etheridge'' | + | |
| - | *1988: [[Talking Heads]] - ''Naked'' | + | |
| - | *1988: [[Julio Iglesias]] - ''Libra'' | + | |
| - | *1994: [[Power Station (band)|Power Station]] - ''Living In Fear'' | + | |
| - | *2008: [[Grace Jones]] - ''Hurricane'' | + | |
| - | *2009: [[Phil Gould (musician)|Phil Gould]] - ''Watertight'' | + | |
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- A music composition in four parts, each performed by a single voice or instrument.
- A string quartet.
- The set of four musicians who perform a piece of music together in four parts.
- A quartet of violinists.
- A group of four.
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