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

PopMatters Picks: The Best Music of 2007

Columbiafrica - The Mystic Orchestra

Voodoo Love Inna Champeta Land

(Riverboat)

US release date: 11 September 2007

UK release date: 10 September 2007

[18 December 2007]

by Deanne Sole

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.

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PopMatters Picks: The Best Music of 2007

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