| Notes: | Popular afrobeat music from Benin.
Title from disc label.
Credits (8 unnumbered pages : color portraits) inserted in container.
Producer, Patrick Dillett.
Angélique Kidjo, vocals ; Lionel Loueke, guitar ; Dominic James, guitar, bass ; Steve Jordan, drums ; Christian McBride, bass ; Jean Hebrail, programming, arrangements ; Magatte Sow, Crespin Kpitiki, Benoît Avihoue, percussion ; Thomas Barlett, Bahnamous Bowie, keyboards ; Mark Degli Antoni, keyboards, effects ; Orchestre Philharmonique du Luxembourg ; Gast, arranger, conductor ; with, variously: Romero Lubambo, guitar ; Rostam Batmanglij, guitar, keyboards ; Dr. John, piano ; Bernie Worrell, organ, Joao Mota, guitar ; Josapha Hounmou, drums ; Manu Agossou, Massimo Biolcati, Jerry Barnes, bass ; Mauro Refosco, percussion ; ASA, Tuelo Mina, Tsholo Mokubung, vocals ; Stuart Bogie, Jared Tankel, saxophone ; Steve Bernstein, trumpet ; Dave "Smoota" Smith, trombone ; Kronos Quartet (David Harrington, John Sherba, violin ; Hank Dutt, viola ; Sunny Yang, cello) ; various choirs from Kenya and Benin.
Recorded variously at Avatar Studios, New York, New York; Philharmonie Luxembourg Hall; Digital Factory, France; Patrick Dillett's Studio, New York, New York; Coast Recorders, San Francisco, California; Fagem Studio, Cotonou, Benin; Phonovision Studio Kidjo, Cotonou, Benin.
Sung in Fon and other languages.
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