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Kultiplex

Label: Pramisi Records
Released: 2003
Track listing: Franca Lucia, Les yeux des Tamashek, Djamu, Family Meetings, Para United, Bidjilo Park View, Nights in Dzaoudzi, Wakandi, Basekounou

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Afro-Cubism-Afro-Caribbeanism? Crossover, jazz-saturated world music? World music? Almost but not quite mainstream jazz, filtered through a Surinamese aquifer? We've got a small problem here finding a category for Fra Fra Sound's Kultiplex.The Fra Fra Sound's septet members hail from the Netherlands, Surinam, the Antilles and Venezuela, a Euro-Caribbean mix full of bright colors and ...

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Fra Fra Sound: Kultiplex

Read "Kultiplex" reviewed by Mark F. Turner

by Mark F. Turner
September 25, 2003

The world music community can be a smaller and more wonderful place. “Fra Fra” means “hybrid” or “mysterious” when spoken in Suriname, the independent South American country formally known as Dutch Guyana. Both words accurately describe the entertaining and captivating band. With a global mindset and world class appeal, the seven piece group began when bassist ...