Articles by Claire Marie Blaustein

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  Karmetik Underground

  Wave Being

  PUBLISHED Mar 24, 2007

  This is a perfect example of the package potentially ruining a decent album. Press releases that spout gibberish about "religiously infusin...

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  Sierra Leone's Refugee All Stars

  Living Like a Refugee

  PUBLISHED Feb 20, 2007

  In case you didn’t have a chance to see the film, the basic story of the Refugee All Stars is this: six men, living in war-torn West Africa...

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  Ginamaria Testa

  Da Questa Parte del mare

  PUBLISHED Feb 20, 2007

  Italian singer-songwriter Gianmaria Testa wants to tell you a story. And he will do it with poetry, with melody, and with the utmost grace....

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  Various

  Electric Gypsyland 2

  PUBLISHED Feb 20, 2007

  The title isn’t precisely an inspired introduction to this fantastic album — reminiscent of a host of catch-all discs that tout mostly lame...

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  Tasa

  Urban Turban

  PUBLISHED Feb 14, 2007

  Urban Turban is the newest release from Tasa, one of the fixtures on the Toronto world music scene. Though some of their other projects hav...

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  Azam Ali

  Elysium for the Brave

  PUBLISHED Feb 13, 2007

  Iranian born Azam Ali’s Elysium for the Brave paints a picture not of the sunny Valhalla of heroes but of the fields of Elysium that lie in...

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  Badi Assad

  Wonderland

  PUBLISHED Feb 13, 2007

  Badi Assad is a musical middle child even though she’s the youngest in her family. Her musical pursuits were never quite as straightforward...

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  The Idan Raichel Project

  The Idan Raichel Project

  PUBLISHED Feb 13, 2007

  While working as a counsellor to recent immigrants from Israel, Idan Raichel started hanging around a group of young Ethiopian Jews. He als...