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World Music Features
Rachid Taha
Equal parts rock and rai, Rachid Taha is a post-modernist who is keeping his rebellious roots intact. Tekitoi?, his latest album, is his most provocative-and most powerful—to date.
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World Music Features
Domenico + 2
Musically competent, innately creative and defiantly adventurous, Domenico + 2 is concerned only with hurling their talents together and stamping new identities onto Brazilian music.
By Paul Sullivan
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World Music Features
Kimmo Therapy
Over the last three decades Kimmo Pohjonen has made it his personal mission to preserve and expand the capabilities of the accordian, applying the instrument normally associated with antique folk music to a dizzying range of musical styles, from rock and folk to classical and electronic.
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World Music Features
Gilles Peterson
Gilles Peterson’s influence on the U.K.’s jazz/world dancefloor scene is inestimable. Though jazz and soul have always the mainstays of Gilles’ music policy over the years, he has consistently championed world grooves on the dancefloor too.
By Paul Sullivan
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Sergio Mendes
Sergio Mendes was only 19 when he recorded his first album, contributing to the 1960's bossa nova craze. He recently collaborated with a member of the Black-Eyed Peas remaking classic Brazillian songs, almost five decades later.
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World Music Features
Nacao Zumbi: Finding Strength in Culture
Since the early ‘90’s they have been at the epicenter of a musical movement in Recife called Mangue Beat. The movement is characterized by the rhythms of Pernambuco mixed with other influences such as hip-hop, rock, world music, dub and reggae.
By Paul Sullivan
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World Music Features
Pernambuco Dreaming
If the ’70s and ’80s were all about Bahia—the picture-postcard beaches, the A-list music stars (Caetano Veloso, Gilbert Gil, Tom Zé)—the ’90s and ’00s have seen the focus shift inexorably to Bahia’s smaller, more unassuming neighbor, Pernambuco.
By Paul Sullivan
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