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"La Marseillaise en creole" from Cinéma el Mundo
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"Tout est fragile" from Cinéma el Mundo
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Album Review

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The Guardian, Album Review >>

<p>Robin Denselow</p>

 <p>The Guardian, Thursday 20 September 2012 17.28 EDT </p>

<p>Thirty years, and 13 albums on, my favourite French/global band are back and on classic form – though I must still repeat the one complaint I have made about them in the past. Based in a former farmhouse, out among the vineyards near Angers, they have created a unique style, mixing the poetry and chanson of soulful singer/keyboard player Denis Paén with the sophisticated, attacking, vocals of two Algerian sisters, Yamina and Nadia Nid El Mourid, along with taut, rhythmic backing and the inspired violin work of Richard Bourreau. This album follows much the same formula as the previous 12, but this time round there's an even more exotic soundscape and more experimentation. It starts with the sound of crickets and a poem (in French) read by Robert Wyatt, who reappears adding scat vocals to the drifting title track. Elsewhere, there's a rousing demand for a multicultural French national identity on La Marseillaise en Creole, and instrumental pieces featuring the West African n'goni and Chinese spike fiddle. An impressive set – but once again the rousing El Mourid sisters are not given the central role they deserve.</p>

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