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Time Out Chicago, CD Review >>
Baka Beyond
World Music Fest
Monday 19 at 8pm
U.K. producers Martin Cradick and Su Hart have spent more than a decade collaborating with the Baka people of Cameroon's rain forest, cultivating a hybrid music of sunny rhythms, Celtic accents and village ritual. Such crossover efforts often come off awkwardly, but this one is surprisingly successful. The music is rooted in a particular place, but it sponges up sounds from neighboring West African countries, such as Sierra Leone and home to kora master Seckou Keita, a standout on Baka's new album, Rhythm Tree (March Hare). 09/15/05
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