Title: "It Nice, you hear?" Review of Spice-ay! by Alana La Grenade
Product review: This album is hot, spicy, contemplative and dream-inspiring; it is a heady cocktail of Jazz, reggae, calypso, soca, merengue, salsa, and lacompine ( La Compaigne, French for country)- the latter being the joyful rhythm that the Prays (praise) bands break into after midnight at a Grenadian wake...It is very clear to me that Alana has set out, consciously to expand both our hips and our minds. She solicits mind-expansion in a song titled Woye Mama, where she calls for commitmemt and continuity from parents and 'elders' to make sure to transfer our treasury of generational knowledge to "the children". It is sound advice- pun intended- for it holds the "older heads" responsible for the education and socialization of every child. As they say in Africa "It takes a whole village to educate a child" and we at ...say "It takes a whole lot of talent to make such a nice CD"
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