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Michy Mano: The Cool Side of the Pillow
by Jim Santella
World music reminds us that every corner of the globe has its own particular sound. Instruments differ, languages differ, elements such as harmony and rhythm differ, but it's all music. The power of our universal language cannot be understated.
Michy Mano sings about sociology and politics, personality and emotion, good fortune and bad. He delivers an upbeat vocal performance that includes English and well as French lyrics. Mano's method combines traditional Gypsy music with contemporary rap antics.
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by Jeff Dayton-Johnson
The Cool Side of the Pillow brings together singer and sentir player Michy Mano and Oslo DJ Bugge Wesseltoft to create a work of musical fusion that is accomplished, hip, witty, but ultimately less than the sum of its parts. Those parts--Moroccan popular styles and Norwegian electronica--do not mix as readily as you might suppose.
Start with electronica. Worldly approaches like Wesseltoft's derive texture, variety, even irony from sampling previously recorded performances. The effect is to smooth out differences between, ...
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