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From the Chocolate Lands
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East Bay Express, From the Chocolate Lands >>
Wrasse's World 2QQ4 offers even more artists from different corners of the globe, but the two-disc set casts its net a little too wide, bouncing from Argentina to Germany to Russia to the Congo to Israel to Italy to Algeria to New Zealand, to name a few. Completing this aural trek should earn world beatniks the musical equivalent of frequent-flyer miles; however, the common threads between the juju and soukous of Kanda Bongo Man, the supermodel-gone-chanteuse glam of Carla Bruni, and the Arabian pop of Khaled aren't particularly apparent. Still, World 2004 does offer many global statements, per haps none more significant than Israeli-Pale-stinian-Engiish outfit Gilad Atxmon and the Orient House Ensemble, whose "Dal'ouna on the Return" does what generations of special envoys and world leaders have failed to do: make peace in the Middle East. That a nonaggression pact could be sealed on the dancefloor - through the fusing of traditional and electronic beats - rather than in the staterooms of political circles speaks volumes about the kind of power music has in the world today.
-Eric K. Arnold 02/05/05
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