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Where that place resides is hard to define but you imagine there’s lots of mist and barns and mystical beings and things that go bump in the night, Kraus gravely intoning poetic lyrics that sometimes make Alasdair Roberts’ songs sound like nursery rhymes. Sullen rhythms, guitars and autoharps lay the spiritual groundwork for Kraus’s dark tales of betrayal, regret, time travellers and love trysts and before you know it you’re lured into its oddly disquieting ambience, not knowing how to escape. Its messages are vague and indecipherable and its doomy tone and eerie mood barely shifts through- out an album that’s all about the mood it cre- ates and is probably best listened to alone at around 3am with something seriously alco- holic to clasp for comfort.
www.sharronkraus.com www.strange-attractors.com
Colin Irwin
TERRAKOTA World Massala Ojo Música OJO005
ANNABOUBOULA
Immortal Water Byzan-Tone Records no catalogue number
JAUNE TOUJOURS / MEC YEK Re:Plugged Choux De Bruxelles CHOU 1002
Lisbon’s seven-piece Terrakota purvey a warm, buzzy mix of sounds both Lusophone (Brazilian, Angolan) and otherwise (reggae, North and West African, Latin American and flamenco). On this, their fourth album, they add Indian influences with tracks recorded over there featuring guest Punjabi and Rajasthani musicians. One global influence too many? Not a bit of it. They continue to avoid post Manu Chao global stodginess with a light touch and musical quality that put most of the planet’s better known mestizo merchants to shame. Here they skip from Afro-Brazilian (Ilegal, complete with lyrics concerning singer Romi’s personal plight), Afrobeat (Slow Food), mbalax (Kay Kay) and Southern and West African acoustic roots (the lovely Ne Djarabi which features Romi duet- ting with fellow Angolan, Paulo Flores). Their new fangled “Punjabi Afro-reggae sound” is best represented by the opening title track. The spiciest new thing I’ve heard in a long time.
www.ojo-musica.com
Next stop on
our mini Euro roots tour is… er, Brook- lyn! No I’m not geo- graphically chal-
lenged, this is the home of Greek global beat trio Annabouboula, world groove pio- neers from back in the 1980s apparently, but a new name to me. Their sound is tougher and more culturally specific than Terrakota’s (every song here has a Greek root, although they all sprout off into different places). Singer Anna Paidoussi’s voice is tough enough to hold its own against the rocking arrangements of multi-instrumentalist George Barba Yiorgi and producer/arranger Chris Lawrence. Guitars are to the fore on the Bo Diddley style reinterpretation of ‘30s rembetiko song Lilli (The Scandalous Girl) and May Day, an original composition which marries lyrics concerning Athens’ political protest with ‘60s beach party music. The tra- ditional What Do You Care Where I’m From is delivered in an East Med reggae style and there’s fiery clarinet from guest George Stathos on If You See The Mountains Burn- ing. A welcome return for those already in the know and a major new discovery for latecomers like me.
http://annabouboula.com
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