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Go Global [Sheer Sound]:
Critic's Review
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![Go Global [Sheer Sound]](http://entimg.msn.com/img/prov_a/150_80/pop/cov200/drf200/f257/f25734l4mxj.jpg) |
| Artist: Various Artists |
| Release Date: May 14, 2002 |
| Label: Sheer Sound |
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Go Global offers a nice collection of modern pop songs and dance grooves from Cuba and various regions of the African continent. If you're after field recordings or raw roots music, you'll need to look elsewhere -- these are all slick, radio-friendly productions, though many of them incorporate indigenous instruments and none of them seem to be aimed at an international market. Instead, they are simply professionally produced recordings designed for consumption by a regional audience. The album starts out strongly with "Silina Musango" by Samite, a Ugandan artist who fled to the U.S. during Idi Amin's reign of terror. Almost as good is Mahube's "Oxam," which is sung in a Southern African click language and rides on a warm and gently percolating groove, as is the Afro-Cuban All Stars' thrillingly horn-heavy "Amor Verdadero." Not everything on the album is great -- too many of these songs are little more than extended two-chord vamps that never go anywhere interesting -- but enough of it is to make it a solidly recommendable collection. ~ Rick Anderson, All Music Guide
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