MystereArtist: Cirque du Soleil
The world-renowned creative team headed up by composers Rene Dupere and Benoit Jutras and creative director ($Guy Laliberte) liken their first permanent Las Vegas show to a desert flower, and its soundtrack is a gorgeous, colorful, unlikely creation indeed. Like preceding albums Saltimbanco and Alegria, Mystere borrows sounds from various...
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FreedomArtist: Yothu Yindi
Community Score: 10.00
From the premier aboriginal worldbeat group in existence comes this semi-sophomore album, following on the success of their first major-label release (as the first album was essentially a demo tape). The music ranges from jumpy worldbeat with almost a tinge of soukous to traditional voice-and-clapstick performances of bungguls and brolgas. In...
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Mar AzulArtist: Césaria Évora
From Cesaria Evora's opening wail on Mar Azul's title track, one knows that this disc, a short set comprised of only eight songs, is going to be something special. This is the album that won Evora the praise of Paris, and was released prior to her international hit, Miss Perfumado. These are classic mornas at their most haunting -- all the songs...
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