Articles by Chris Wodskou

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  Hugh Masekela

  Sixty

  PUBLISHED Nov 1, 1999

  Hugh Masekela’s 60th birthday is cause for celebration, but perhaps the best way to observe this milestone would be to reflect back o...

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  Chucho Valdes

  Briyumba Palo Congo (Religion of the Congo)

  PUBLISHED Nov 1, 1999

  Now that music critics and major and boutique labels alike are enamoured of all things Cuban, it’s only natural that the honorific of...

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  Lunar Drive

  All Together Here

  PUBLISHED Nov 1, 1999

  I’ll admit to being pretty dubious about Lunar Drive when I opened this CD. Native American poetry spoken over hip-hop beats, techno...

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  Various

  BossaCucaNova (Revisited Classics)

  PUBLISHED Nov 1, 1999

  Much is made of this collection being the first bossa remix project to be produced in Brazil, but while pop, rock and dance artists have be...

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  Freakwater

  End Time

  PUBLISHED Oct 1, 1999

  "I’ve been good," Catherine Irwin sings in her hard-bitten, but tuneful twang, and then pauses for a few beats before resuming, as if...

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  John Lee Hooker

  The Best of Friends

  PUBLISHED Oct 1, 1999

  Now well into his 80s, John Lee Hooker has been discovered and rediscovered repeatedly over his brilliant career. The electric boogie man o...

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  Inner Thumb

  Soul Ecstasy

  PUBLISHED Oct 1, 1999

  The entire story behind Soul Ecstasy reeks of apocrypha, but the record company swears it’s legit, so here goes. Seems that an incend...

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  Mekons

  Where Were You? Hen’s Teeth and Other Lost Fragments of Un

  PUBLISHED Oct 1, 1999

  It was with some trepidation that I picked this second Mekons B-sides, curios and outtakes collection. The fact is, I’ve always been...