Almost overnight, menace turned to violence and caught thousands unaware. In 1994, Hutu extremists held the nation by the throat and focused their hatred on the Tutsi people and moderate Hutus. Ultimately, this is a very fine compilation, one that bears repeated listening, but also one that provokes different feelings in the listeners where melancholy and sadness co-exist seamlessly with beauty.Based on true events that emerged from the atrocity of the Rwandan civil war, director Terry George’s masterful Hotel Rwanda introduces us to Paul Rusesabagina (Don Cheadle), the then-manager of the posh Hotel Milles Collines. Elsewhere, such as on Cox's "Nobody Cares" produced by Jimmy Jam & Terry Lewis, the American urban touch is a stark contrast to the more African centered material but this is not a distraction, more poignantly, a meditation on how much we missed in relation to this human tragedy.
Certainly some titles like Rupert Gregson-Williams' "Interhamwe Attack" feels overblown because of the layers of programming, but the dynamic effect is unmistakable it's more of a film cue than anything else and only a minor distraction. The selections here evoke a landscape that is profound, moving and deeply sorrowful in places. This is not a criticism, but the opposite. As music, the sounds here feel as if they are inextricably tied to the images on screen.
This collection, billed as "music from the film" rather than the soundtrack to Hotel Rwanda, the Terry George film starring Don Cheadle, features tracks by the Afro Celt Sound System with vocalist Dorothee Munyaneza - who also performs her own compositions elsewhere - Wyclef Jean with the hit "Million Voices," Deborah Cox, Yvonne Chaka Chaka, Tilly Key and Bernard Kabanda along with orchestra compositions by the multi-talented Andrea Guerra.
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