Thank you so much - WOMAD!", Justin says as one of their most trancey, smoking sets draws to a conclusion. With Juldeh's riti safe and miraculously not on fire after such awesome playing, Justin introduces the band....." Martyn Barker on drums, Ousman Beyai on bass, Mim Suleiman on backing vocals, extra backing vocals Simon Broughton and the great Fulani Coochi man, Mr Juldeh Camara".
Words : Jill Turner
Images : Darren Coleman for Puttyfoot.com
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Adrian Phillips listens to Tchamantche, from Rokia Traore, winner of Best Artist in this year's Songline's awards and finds his life changing in the process......
GondwanaSound would like to congratulate all the winners of the categories in the Songlines Music Awards, aswell as the nominees plus all the musicians who worked hard to get a cd out there in 2008. Our lives are all the richer for your hard work and creativity... We have been playing tracks form all the nominees throughout April.....Read On for the winners.
Jill Turner travels the Mediterranean with ‘Miradores’ from Los Desterrados, their second album on the independent Crusoe label. With tighter percussion, more rounded singing, greater interplay between the strings of the guitar, oud, violin and electric bass, plus autograph beckoning studio portraits in the glossy sleeve notes, the album stands out as an altogether confident offering, building on their 2001 debut, ‘Tu’.GondwanaSound: other content and links
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