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Lionel Loueke: guitar as a speaking voice
Guitar as a speaking voice. Start with The Journey.
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Lionel Loueke appears in the atlas under Benin. The linked identity record describes the artist as beninese guitarist and vocalist. Catalog genre references include jazz fusion, jazz.
Guitar as a speaking voice
The catalog lists The Journey under 2018. Use the recording as a starting point in the artist’s catalog. The Spotify link opens the artist page, where available recordings can differ by region.
Pick a passage and follow the attack and decay of each note. Hear where a guitar phrase feels like an answer to another part.
Sources: The Journey — recording reference · Lionel Loueke — Spotify artist page
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Release information checked November 3, 2026. Publication dates above refer to this article, not the release date.