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BANTU FEATURING AYUBA
FUJI SATISFACTION
Piranha/GER/CD
It's easy to confuse toasts to music with shout-outs to The Fugees-like Wyclef and crew, this eclectic album casts a cultural net over many musical styles. But this record goes a little deeper. A group of German and Nigerian musicians creates head-bobbing mix of Islamic singing, polyrhythmic drumming, Western guitar lines and bouyant brass. Add a variety of lyrical styles, like gruff dancehall and uplifting, sing-song rapping, and you have fuji a style popular in Nigeria. Vocalists Ade Bantu and Adewale Ayuba hold court over the shuffling, joyous sounds of a worthwhile, though not world-changing, cultural exchange.
Patrick Sisson 11/01/05
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