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Ali Farka Toure: Red & Green
by Nenad Georgievski
The link between Africa and America, i.e. whether there is still a surviving link that exists from the period of the slave trade, has been a subject of numerous explorations, assumptions, projects, movies (Feels like Goin' Home by Scorsese). In all the regions worldwide there were people that went to all kinds of places, recording songs ...
Specialist In All Styles
Label: World Circuit
Released: 2003
Track listing: Bul Ka Miin; Sutukun; D
Orchestra Baobab: Specialist In All Styles
by AAJ Staff
Hot on the heels of the recently reissued 1982 classic Pirate's Choice, the Orchestra Baobab recently re-formed to deliver an update to its signature Afro-Cuban sound. Unlike music of the same name which comes from the diaspora traditions of Cuba, Baobab goes at it the other way around. Whereas traditional Afro-Cuban music reflects the West African ...
Ruben Gonzalez: Introducing...Ruben Gonzalez
by Derrick A. Smith
Most Cuban releases these days evoke the atmosphere of the dance hall, or the veranda of an Havana dwelling, depending on whether the music is in the big-band dancing format or one of the more folkloric string-oriented styles. This premiere full-length by Ruben Gonzalez, however, brushes the sepia and blues of an early 20th Century salon ...
