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Tu peux aller, le chemin est libre.
Tu peux bouger, la vie est si belle.
Tu peux aller, le chemin est libre.
Tu as perdu ton boulot dans cette vie la,
Massi téladi.
Ta femme t’as quitté à cause de ça-la,
Massi téladi.
Tu as perdu ta famille dans cette vie la,
Massi téladi.
Eh! Tes amis t’on quitté à cause de ça la,
Massi téladi, massi téladi...
La vie est est une école.
Tu ne peux pas rester, tu ne peux pas rester,
Dans cette vie là, il faut te racheter.
Tu peux aller, le chemin est libre,
Tu peux bouger, la vie est si belle,
Tu peux aller, le chemin est libre,
Tu peux bouger, la vie est si belle.
I ka fourou douman tiyan na fêmi kosson.
Massi téladi.
I ka kanou douman tiyana na fêmi kosson.
Massi téladi.
I ka baden ya douman tiyana fêmi kosson.
Massi téladi.
I ka sindjiya douma tiyana fêmi kosson.
Massi téladi, massi téladi...
La vie est est une école.
Tu ne peux pas rester, tu ne peux pas rester,
Dans cette vie là, il faut te racheter.
Ni ya gnagami massi ta gnanabo.
Tu as perdu ton boulot dans cette vie la.
Ni ya féréké massi ta gnan-nabo.
Ta femme t’as quitté à cause de ça-la.
Ni ya gnougouba massi ta gnan-nabo.
Tu as perdu ta famille dans cette vie la.
Ni ya gnagami massi ta gnanabo.
Tu peux aller, le chemin est libre,
Tu peux bouger, la vie est si belle...
| ckcotton (Adding snarky comments since 2007) | Posted: Mar 19, 2013 - 15:30 justsomeone wrote: You were lucky... After unsuccesfully doing all of the above, I smashed my PC in frustration, went to the PC store for another one, started all over, finally managed to log in just to say "I completely agree" thank you Don't smash the PC... just yank the modem and have a beer... come back when its over... works every time.... |
| ckcotton (Adding snarky comments since 2007) | Posted: Mar 19, 2013 - 15:26 MAN.... HOW do I get PSD to work in iTunes?.... |
| valeriogonzalez (Quito, Ecuador) | Posted: Jan 30, 2013 - 14:21 In the mood for Amadou & Mariam  I hope the crisis in Mali ends soon. |
| Pitjes (North Germany) | Posted: Jan 23, 2013 - 04:12 Such Sound within such political processings- It's entirely sad! |
| McDonald (Christiansted, VI) | Posted: Jan 23, 2013 - 04:11 Yikes! |
| Stingray | Posted: Dec 30, 2012 - 06:06 rockpommel16 wrote: ...don´t like this world-music-crab here on RP.......PSD your name says it all...!!!! |
| Stingray | Posted: Dec 30, 2012 - 06:04 Extraordinaire! |
| rcpelletier | Posted: Oct 28, 2012 - 12:48 Merci au paradis! |
| jim1964 (1379 miles to Wall Drug) | Posted: Oct 13, 2012 - 20:27 Zedman wrote: Very cool song. Vancouverites and Seattlites: Amadou and Mariam at the Burnaby Blues and Roots Festival in August. They did an excellent set. |
| kiwicolorado | Posted: Sep 27, 2012 - 01:28 Reminds us that harmony and beat is universal. Great memories from 5 months in Africa. More world music like this please ! |
| rockpommel16 (rockpommel´s land...dreaming of netherlands) | Posted: Sep 12, 2012 - 07:09 .....f***....my PSD didn´t work...... |
| rockpommel16 (rockpommel´s land...dreaming of netherlands) | Posted: Sep 12, 2012 - 07:08 ...don´t like this world-music-crab here on RP.......PSD |
| Zedman (Vancouver) | Posted: Jun 09, 2012 - 16:36 Very cool song. Vancouverites and Seattlites: Amadou and Mariam at the Burnaby Blues and Roots Festival in August. |
| gypsyman (just passing through....) | Posted: Jun 09, 2012 - 16:33 Masiteladi = unlucky |
| ReddFlagg (North Texas) | Posted: May 23, 2012 - 21:07 Love this! It fucking rocks! |
| kh808 (HAWAII) | Posted: May 08, 2012 - 21:39 Volume up full...... dancing around like I am in a Mali village how could you not....Love the lead guitar |
| mauguima (sewers) | Posted: Mar 21, 2012 - 12:45 Hey, Montrealers, they will be in the Osheaga festival this summer! Yay!! http://suivi.evenko.ca/v/443/fbdcfea1a550a2b0ed411a2f588a343df0f168ec37a7b7be |
| DaMoGan (Beer on the east coast, Beer on the west coast.) | Posted: Mar 21, 2012 - 10:56 Don't understand the hating on this song — I dig it. |
| biofotis | Posted: Mar 21, 2012 - 10:55 not an enjoyable song...not at all...  |
| Ears_of_Stone (Crushed under the hooves of the herd) | Posted: Mar 06, 2012 - 11:39 nonesuch.com offers this: Masiteladi (feat. M)
Tu as perdu ton boulot dans cette vie la, Tu peux aller, le chemin est libre, I ka fourou douman tiyan na fêmi kosson. Ni ya gnagami massi ta gnanabo. Tu peux aller, le chemin est libre, —- You're free to go, the way is clear. You’ve lost your job in this life. You’re free, the way is clear. Your marriage is ruined. You can’t stay, you have to move on. Your wife has left you Go on! Amadou & Mariam You’re free, the way is clear. |
| rtrudeau (Bay Area, California) | Posted: Mar 06, 2012 - 11:38 Byronape wrote: I just spent the last 10 minutes rearranging my desk to fit my new and improved, no longer blown by listening to RP way to stinking loud , speakers for this? Great, muting about 45 seconds after I got done... that's just my luck. Try the PSD ("Play Something Different") button. It's much more satisfying than mute, and easier on your blood pressure than a rant. |
| PA1749 (Room 106) | Posted: Mar 06, 2012 - 11:36 Songs like this really make me appreciate the new PSD button!  |
| Byronape ("post-capitalist wreckageville") | Posted: Feb 03, 2012 - 19:05 I just spent the last 10 minutes rearranging my desk to fit my new and improved, no longer blown by listening to RP way to stinking loud , speakers for this? Great, muting about 45 seconds after I got done... that's just my luck. |
| hippiechick (topsy turvy land) | Posted: Jan 10, 2012 - 08:23 rulebritannia wrote: I love practically everything A&M. This isn't among my favorites. Same here. Fact: They are both sight-disabled, and met at a school for the blind. |
| rulebritannia (NYC - Back in the USA!) | Posted: Dec 02, 2011 - 05:59 I love practically everything A&M. This isn't among my favorites. |
| salzburg4321 (Salzburg, Austria) | Posted: Nov 15, 2011 - 13:05 This song is on the verge of being annoying. |
| justsomeone (Between a rock and a hard place) | Posted: Nov 07, 2011 - 21:08 F1 wrote: A song has to be pretty god awful if I drop what I'm doing, go to the website to comment, realize I was not logged in, try and log in and the password doesn't work, have to click "forgot your password?", get the email, re-set the password and, FINALLY log in just to say, "this is one totally crap song". You were lucky... After unsuccesfully doing all of the above, I smashed my PC in frustration, went to the PC store for another one, started all over, finally managed to log in just to say "I completely agree" thank you |
| OhKatieLaughs | Posted: Oct 07, 2011 - 08:44 I like it! *dancing* |
| Poacher (Brighton, UK) | Posted: Oct 07, 2011 - 08:44 Netto wrote: A solid 2. Marginal track. A solid 9. An excellent track. (How wonderful that RP listeners can co-exist at both ends of the spectrum) |
| cohifi (Denver) | Posted: Sep 05, 2011 - 22:42 7 <= 8 Sound card driver update |
| ckcotton | Posted: Aug 29, 2011 - 12:25 Asmith wrote: Make it stop now RIGHT ON BROTHER.... NO MORE |
| ScottFromWyoming (Powell) | Posted: Aug 29, 2011 - 12:25 I like this but I'm tired of it. Different track would be nice. |
| ckcotton | Posted: Aug 29, 2011 - 12:23 AHHHHHHH WHY ?!!!!!! |
| netskink (Durham, NC) | Posted: Aug 05, 2011 - 13:17 Rocks this southern hillbilly |
| The_Enemy (...is within) | Posted: Apr 25, 2011 - 11:59 Baby_M wrote: Oh, come now kids, this is just flat-out pedal-to-the-metal fun.  It gets up and just goes.I love how the African vocal style is meshed in to the California surf-rock instrumentation. I don't understand a word of it, and I don't care. We be dancin' here too. I already rated this a 7. I'm considering if that should be an 8. |
| Baby_M (a 100+-year old building in downtown Akron, Ohio) | Posted: Jan 28, 2011 - 14:09 fingerpin wrote: From yahoo answers... The expression "Massi téladi" is definitely not French; it is Bamanankan, one of the national languages of Mali; a land-locked sub-Saharan country in West Africa, once a French colony. It would appear looking at the lyrics of the song, by Amadou Bagayoko & Mariam Doumbia, most of which I have been able to translate into English. The phrase ("Massi téladi") in relation to the lyrics, seems to point to the possibility that it could, and this is a stab in the dark because it makes sense because of the relationship, mean "unlucky" - it seems to fit. Unless we have somebody in this community who reads, writes and speaks Bamanankan then we will not get a definitive answer. Note: The original lyrics were written bi-lingual, part French, part Bamanankan Sorry - best I can do. Personal note: I like this CD.  Any idea what the French part of it translates to? |
| Baby_M (a 100+-year old building in downtown Akron, Ohio) | Posted: Jan 28, 2011 - 14:09 Oh, come now kids, this is just flat-out pedal-to-the-metal fun. It gets up and just goes.I love how the African vocal style is meshed in to the California surf-rock instrumentation. I don't understand a word of it, and I don't care. |
| Netto (Khimki, Russia) | Posted: Jan 04, 2011 - 16:03 A solid 2. Marginal track. |
| Johnny_Wave (California, baby) | Posted: Dec 14, 2010 - 21:26 A solid 3 |
| fingerpin (oHIo) | Posted: Nov 02, 2010 - 08:43 Bluesgrrl wrote: What does Masiteladi mean? From yahoo answers... The expression "Massi téladi" is definitely not French; it is Bamanankan, one of the national languages of Mali; a land-locked sub-Saharan country in West Africa, once a French colony. It would appear looking at the lyrics of the song, by Amadou Bagayoko & Mariam Doumbia, most of which I have been able to translate into English. The phrase ("Massi téladi") in relation to the lyrics, seems to point to the possibility that it could, and this is a stab in the dark because it makes sense because of the relationship, mean "unlucky" - it seems to fit. Unless we have somebody in this community who reads, writes and speaks Bamanankan then we will not get a definitive answer. Note: The original lyrics were written bi-lingual, part French, part Bamanankan Sorry - best I can do. Personal note: I like this CD. |
| Bluesgrrl (New Orleans) | Posted: Oct 18, 2010 - 10:34 What does Masiteladi mean? |
| Shimmer (Bethesda, MD) | Posted: Oct 12, 2010 - 10:41 F1 wrote: A song has to be pretty god awful if I drop what I'm doing, go to the website to comment, realize I was not logged in, try and log in and the password doesn't work, have to click "forgot your password?", get the email, re-set the password and, FINALLY log in just to say, "this is one totally crap song". I'm curious - what makes you hate this song? It's a straightforward rock song, albeit in a language that I assume is foreign to you. It's competently played, sung, and produced. I can understand if you don't love it, but I really don't understand the hate. |
| buzmaggie (AZ, US) | Posted: Oct 12, 2010 - 10:37 yeah Zigi! your right pretty good little Africa Rocker! |
| icemang (Boston & DC, mostly) | Posted: Oct 12, 2010 - 10:35 Stingray wrote: Rather weak song from a good album! Not sure "weak" is the right word, but yeah it's not my favorite cut from the album. |
| Zigi (Amsterdam, the Netherlands) | Posted: Sep 24, 2010 - 05:02 I am liking this rocking African groove. |
| Stingray (EUROPE) | Posted: Sep 20, 2010 - 07:32 WITHOUT MALI |
| Stingray (EUROPE) | Posted: Sep 16, 2010 - 16:15 Rather weak song from a good album! SUPERB cover design! |
| Asmith | Posted: Sep 10, 2010 - 16:12 paulmack wrote: Don't make it stop, I love this song. Looks like you lose, Asmith. Thank God I have a mute button! |
| paulmack (the hissing swamps) | Posted: Sep 10, 2010 - 16:12 Asmith wrote: Make it stop now Don't make it stop, I love this song. Looks like you lose, Asmith. |
| Asmith | Posted: Sep 10, 2010 - 16:11 Make it stop now |