Paul Morley's Showing Off: Staff Benda Bilili

A band whose history defies convention and whose music defies easy categorisationPerhaps certain music from, say, deep inside Africa, sounds lost inside the vast lostness of a multitude of countries that lose themselves inside their own histories and the broken histories of their neighbours, and got filed, if at all, as world music because there was a certain quaintness about them. If such music tried to keep up with flashing, fashion-y developments in the Anglo-American west, where country and ...

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