Smod: Smod – review

(Because)Spanish star Manu Chao was producing Mali's Amadou and Miriam when he came across Smod, a hip-hop trio led by the duo's son, Sam. A session at the family home in Bamako with Chao's portable studio delivered this infectious debut, which hovers midway between rap and song. Its lilting, semi-acoustic approach is arguably too close to Chao's own Clandestino, but the trio's smooth harmonies and politically charged songs are their own, wittily denouncing corrupt leaders who "eat money" in a m...

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