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Sample Track 1:
"In the Forest" from Uprooting
Sample Track 2:
"Fishie" from Uprooting
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Uprooting
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CD Review

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The Mazovia region of Poland might be the last place you’d expect to hear heavy, heady dub swirl with hip-hop and blues, but this outfit majors in the unexpected. Using village folk as a template for futuristic sonic excursions, violins, fiddles, dulcimers, cellos and baraban drums find a new home in global-inspired modernity. The dynamic interplay of hip-hop scratches with violin on “In the Forest” and the dubbed-out “Woman in Hell” are energetic romps, while the blues-based serenade “The Grey Horse” connects Mazovia to Mississippi like reunited siblings. Maybe Uprooting should’ve been named Re-Rooted.

 

-Derek Beres

 04/01/05
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