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- Record Label: Glitterbeat
- Release Date: Jul 22, 2016
- Summary: The album contains some of the recordings from five days of rehearsal before a concert by Afrobeat/Fela Kuti drummer Tony Allen with local Haitian and western musicians in Port Au Prince.
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- Record Label: Glitterbeat
- Genre(s): International
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Mixed: 4 out of 7
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Sep 2, 2016It’s no surprise that a group with Tony Allen delivers, and that’s the only obvious thing about this album. Everything else is a revelation.
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UncutAug 1, 2016The resultant tracks are dominated by Allen's fidgety, polyrhythmic Afrobeat rhythms, particularly the Fela Kuti-ish "Bade Zile." But the Haitian singers and FX-laden soundscapes of Glasgow guitarist Marc Mulholland take things into other dimensions. [Aug 2017, p.69]
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The WireAug 19, 2016This is swirling, volatile music, awash with synths and scorched to a turn by Mulholland's guitar. [Aug 2016, p.62]
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Aug 1, 2016Assembled from rehearsals rather than the actual concert, it’s something of a field recording but one with arresting power. A noble oddity.
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Aug 1, 2016The fusion is at its best on Poze, which eases from chanting vocals to a blues-rock guitar riff, and Pa Bat Kòw, which includes a rousing percussion workout.
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MojoSep 27, 2016The album features psychedelic guitar, heavy percussion, priests, deep gumbo and the main man's peerless drumming. [Nov 2016, p.93]
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Aug 1, 2016The backbone is Allen’s afrobeat vibe, on top of which ten Haitian percussionists have piled on the voodoo grooves and chants. Pretty krautrockarama.