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Columbiafrica - The Mystic Orchestra

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Kids Don’t Go and Buy Anything Out of This Section: World Music 2007

As a category world music is both useful and frustrating. It puts CDs on the shelves and prevents people picking them up. It is the other-than category: other-than rock, other-than indie, other-than everything. It is the whole world and nothing definite. [18 December 2007]

Reviews

Columbiafrica - The Mystic Orchestra: Voodoo Love Inna Champeta Land

Complex without being confusing, a brilliant Frankenmixture that sounds completely natural. [25 October 2007]

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