Rolling Stone (6/1/95, p.62) - "...[Papa Wemba moves] away from a hard-core Zairean sound into smoother, international Afro pop with touches of funk and soul....not the first African artist to attempt to internationalize his sound, but he's the rare artist who pulls it off..."
Q (5/95, p.110) - 4 Stars - "...this gets as close as almost anyone to the state of the art."
JazzTimes (6/95, p.86) - "...an Afro-pop project that unapologetically criss-crosses African and American vocabularies and goes down easily....dance-happy world music..."
Personnel: Papa Wemba, Juliet Roberts (vocals); Maika Munn, Maurice Poto (guitar, keyboards, background vocals); Lokua Kanza (guitar, background vocals); Stephen Hague (accordion); The Kick Horns (horns); Christian Polloni (keyboards, background vocals); Jean-Philippe Rykiel (keyboards); Lokua Kanza (bass, percussion); Noel Ekwabi (bass); Andy Duncan (drums, percussion); Paco Sery (drums); Xavier Jouvelet, Udoh Essieh (percussion); Anne Papiri, Julia Sarr (background vocals).
Engineers include: Ben Findlay, Alex Firla, Stan Loubieres.
Recorded at Real World Studios, Box, England and Guillaume Tell Studios, Paris, France. Includes liner notes by Paul Bradshaw.