Articles by Chris Wodskou

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  Senor Coconut

  Gran Baile

  PUBLISHED Aug 1, 2001

  Every Emperor Norton release seems to be shrouded in so much arcana and apocrypha that it's pretty much impossible to distil fact from wild...

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  Bau

  Blimundo

  PUBLISHED Jul 1, 2001

  The belated international celebrity of Cape Verde's most famous export, Cesaria Evora, has not only elevated the profile of the archipelago...

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  Teofilo Chantre

  Rodatempo

  PUBLISHED Jul 1, 2001

  The belated international celebrity of Cape Verde's most famous export, Cesaria Evora, has not only elevated the profile of the archipelago...

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  Cesaria Evora

  Sao Vicente di Longe

  PUBLISHED Jul 1, 2001

  It would be more than a little churlish, not to mention arrogant, for a critic to grouse about however Cesaria Evora chooses to make use of...

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  Radio Tarifa

  Cruzando el rio

  PUBLISHED Jul 1, 2001

  Radio Tarifa have up until this point in their career figuratively stood astride the Straits of Gibraltar; that narrow channel that separat...

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  Marcos Valle

  Escape

  PUBLISHED Jul 1, 2001

  In the bossa nova revival of recent years, Marcos Valle has been one of the last bossa nova icons of the '60s to resurface. Valle became pr...

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  Maria Marquez

  Eleven Love Stories/Once Cuentos de Amor

  PUBLISHED May 1, 2001

  Last year it was Peru's Susana Baca who set North American audiences on their ear with her smouldering torch songs. Three years ago it was...

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  Plena Libre

  Mas Libre

  PUBLISHED May 1, 2001

  Plena Libre is something of a national institution in their native Puerto Rico - veteran, and eminently exportable, exponents of the plena...