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Ali Farka Toure: Red & Green

Read "Red & Green" reviewed by Nenad Georgievski

by Nenad Georgievski
November 9, 2004

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 ...

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Specialist In All Styles

By Orchestra Baobab

Label: World Circuit
Released: 2003
Track listing: Bul Ka Miin; Sutukun; D

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Orchestra Baobab: Specialist In All Styles

Read "Specialist In All Styles" reviewed by AAJ Staff

by AAJ Staff
February 10, 2003

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 ...

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Buena Vista Social Club

By Buena Vista Social Club

Label: World Circuit
Released: 2001

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Montevideo Dos

By Ruben Rada

Label: World Circuit
Released: 2001

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Omara Portuondo

By Omara Portuondo

Label: World Circuit
Released: 2000

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Ruben Gonzalez: Introducing...Ruben Gonzalez

by Derrick A. Smith
July 1, 1999

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 ...

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