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Arizona Daily Star, 5 Sound Gift Ideas (excerpt) >>
World-music choices are wide-ranging in geography and content
-by Gerald M. Gay
Arizona Daily Star
Tucson, Arizona | Published: 12.22.2006
You've done it again. Three days before Christmas, and the regular grind of the workweek has kept you out of the stores and plum out of luck in the Christmas present department.
There's still time, but you have to work fast.
Rather than fight your fellow holiday procrastinators for the last iPod at Best Buy this season, try these 2006 world-music selections on for size.
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Hazmat Modine — 'Bahamut' (Barbés Records).
Not since bluesman Paul Pena journeyed to the Republic of Tuva to jam with musicians in the mid-'90s has Tuvan throat singing and Americana music fit so well together. The popular Tuvan ensemble Huun-Huur-Tu sits in on several of Hazmat Modine's eclectic tracks, including a cover of the early-20th-century harmonica player Jaybird Coleman's "Man Trouble." The guttural chants maneuver their way through songs slathered in harmonica and tuba, an eclectic soup with something for everyone.
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