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Best of the Obscure Among 2001's Albums
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New York Times, Best of the Obscure Among 2001's Albums >>
by Jon Pareles
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1. Gigi: "Gigi" (Palm Pictures), Ejigayehu Shibabaw, or Gigi, is a songwriter from Ethiopia; her producer, Bill Laswell, is an old hand at international fusions. In songs about love and the country she left behind Gigi’s modal melodies and urgently questioning voice rise out of grooves that swirl jazz and funk into the complexities of Ethiopian pop broadening the music without Americanizing it. 01/03/02
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