The third full-length from this Brooklyn collective features songs that draw on themes of travel, exploration, and the desire for a quiet niche amid the pressures of big city living. The characters show a yearning to break free from the boundaries of city life (the cannibal sea), to escape the darkness and fatigue and move on to a lighter-hearted setting surrounded by water, replete with the spray of the sea and the lilting of a boat. Listening to this is like opening a songbook of classic pop. The twelve ...   [ read more ]

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The third full-length from this Brooklyn collective features songs that draw on themes of travel, exploration, and the desire for a quiet niche amid the pressures of big city living. The characters show a yearning to break free from the boundaries of city life (the cannibal sea), to escape the darkness and fatigue and move on to a lighter-hearted setting surrounded by water, replete with the spray of the sea and the lilting of a boat. Listening to this is like opening a songbook of classic pop. The twelve ...   [ read more ]

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In Europe and the U.S., the Malian singer/songwriter Boubacar TraorT tends to be marketed as a sort of bluesman -- perhaps because his band prominently features the harmonica, and perhaps because his songs are dark and spare. But his latest album seldom if ever makes use of any of the conventions of the blues; the 12-bar chord progression on which the blues is based never appears, and TraorT's guitar style owes far more to the kora-wielding griots of his native country than to the emotive, stri...   [ read more ]

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