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Billboard, CD Review >>
South Africa's quintessential singing group returns with a project where, as the title "No Boundaries" suggests, the legendary all-male vocal ensemble led by Joseph Shabalala steps outside its usual repertoire and style. Joined by the string section of the English Chamber Orchestra, other instrumentalists and arranger/conductor/pianist Ralf Gothoni, the music ranges from signature tunes of the group's Zulu iscathamiya ("tiptoeing") style (Paul Simon's "Homeless") to "Amazing Grace" and new arrangements of Bach's "Jesu" and the "Sanctus" movement from Schubert's "Deutsche Messe." The results are sweetly delivered with that gorgeous and unmistakably Ladysmith sound, but too often the sheer beauty of its voices are lost in a wash of glittering strings, winds, piano, harpsichord, harp and varied percussion that adds little to its performance.
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