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Some globe-trotting grooves to chill you out
A series that focuses on new directions in world music, Coup D’Etat aims for a different perspective to most compilations of this type. Under the heading The Next Chapter, this third collection is sub-titled Emerging International Sounds. Well, that’s an invitation to nitpickers like me. If it’s about sounds we might not have heard before, why include French-Algerian Rachid Taha’s take on The Clash’s Rock The Casbah. Granted it’s pretty damn good, but it came out in 2004. And there are other examples here. Nitpickers will also want to know why there’s almost no artist info here, not even country of origin. Okay, there’s Google, but... However, putting such gripes aside, there’s much to inform and delight in these 26 tracks across 90 minutes. The journey begins with French-Israeli Yael Naim and closes with German-born Nigerian Ayo and in between you go to Prague, Delhi, Hanoi, Mexico City, Nairobi, Bamako, Istanbul and further afield. Add a decidedly slinky Francophile edge to much of this, and it’s a swaying, seductive chill zone feel rather than a charged-up, sweaty affair, just right for a bit of armchair travelling, actually.
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BILL HOLDSWORTH
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