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"Je N' Aime Que Toi" from Descarga Oriental: The New York Sessions (Piranha)
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Tim Perlich's Top 10 Discs
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NOW Magazine, Tim Perlich's Top 10 Discs >>

Anyone grumbling about what a terrible year 2006 was for music can't have been looking very hard. In fact, once I started going back over all the amazing stuff I heard this year, it was difficult to pare down my list to the top 100. Here are 10 of my faves.

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7 MAURICE EL MÉDIONI & ROBERTO RODRIGUEZ Descarga Oriental (Piranha)
Drawing on the inspiration of ancient Andalusia – where Arabs, Jews, Muslims and Christians lived in harmony – Algerian piano maestro Maurice El Médioni hooks up with New York percussionist Roberto Rodriguez for a dazzling cross-cultural exchange.
 12/30/06 >> go there
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