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The Virginia Pilot, CD Review >>
This second collaboration between British blues-rock guitarist/Robert Plant sideman Justin Adams and Gambian musician/griot Juldeh Camara showcases the connection between the blues and West African music, foundation of the blues.
Backed by percussionist Salah Dawson Miller, the two bring their seemingly disparate cultural backgrounds to the fore for a seemless hybrid music that crackles with electricity, energy and raw emotion. The album's mood is set with the first song, "Sahara," a roiling, Bo Diddley-styled blues-rocker that sounds like Cream if the band came from West Africa instead of England. With Adams laying out buzzing electric guitar and feed-back, Camara stings everything with sinewy riti (one-stringed Gambian violin) riffing. Alternating between the riti and kologo (two-stringed Ghanaian banjo), Camara locks with Adams sonically and spiritually as the two combine Elmore James and Muddy Waters riffs with indigenous rhythms to create spooky, transcendent visceral music.
It's a natural fusing of two cultures producing a danceable universal musical language. 07/01/09
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