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We'll be checking out selections from new albums by Orchestra Baobab
(Senegal), Malian guitarist Vieux Farka Touré, recent releases from the
Sudanese singer Alsarah & the Nubatones and T.P. Orchestre Poly-Rythmo de
Cotonou (Benin), plus more tracks from Soundway's "Kenya Sp...
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Mulatu Astatke left Ethiopia to study music abroad, first in London and then
in the U.S. where he became the first African student to study at Boston's
Breklee College of Music. He then returned to Ethiopia and created a new
hybrid blending Ethiopan modes and African sensib...
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who in the spirit of Harry Partch, creates much of his music on exotic
instruments of his own design: sculptural metallic
creations. Smith's compositions, which always display his dualistic
fascination with the scientific and the sensual, might owe their split
personaliti...
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