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"Wenyukela" from Raise Your Spirit Higher -- Wenyukela
Sample Track 2:
"Wenza Ngani?" from Raise Your Spirit Higher -- Wenyukela
Sample Track 3:
"Music Knows No Boundaries" from Raise Your Spirit Higher -- Wenyukela
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Raise Your Spirit Higher -- Wenyukela
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Sound and Vision Magazine, CD Review >>

Two more surround gems hail from Africa.  Olaltunji's Drums of Passion is a landmark 1960 world-music recording.  Listening to Mark Wilder's mix is like standing inside a drum circle - powerful, mesmerizing.  Ladysmith Black Mambazo attains a similar trancelike state on its new Raise Your Spirit Higher.  The mix by Martin Walters puts the lead vocal in the center and the tonally balanced chorus (have voices ever been so well recorded?) in the other channels, filling the room with amazing grace.

--Parke Puterbaugh  06/01/04
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