Mental Distortion

On Wednesday’s radio broadcast of PRI’s “The World”, the Global Hit artist that day was an African musician named Asa, pronounced ‘Asha’. I can’t quite pin down what type of music she plays, even if the genre description on iTunes is ‘World’, which is a pretty lame excuse of a term to describe a musician from Africa. Her website terms her music as ‘Nigerian Soul’, although there are elements of reggae, folk and ‘alternative’ all mixed into a unique sound that is really wonderful and pleasant to listen to. I listened to the album straight through two times after buying it, which I haven’t done in a while when buying an album.

Asa’s lyrics can be serious subject matter, although her music is very upbeat and very optimistic in nature, a subject that she actually discusses in her PRI interview. The interview can be found in the Global Hits section of PRI’s website for “The World”.

The album can be purchased on both iTunes and Amazon. I hope you enjoy it as much as I have.