Paul Morley's Showing Off: World music

AR Rahmen, Staff Benda Bilili, Céu, Nitin Sawhney, Radioclit - file under pop?Staff Benda Bilili, magnificent survivors singing at the top of their voices about a harsh, strange world and the implacable undermining of all that sustains reason and safety, play a violently stirred, adamant and joyously demented rowdy message music that they describe as rumba-blues, and I'd play it after Flatt and Scruggs, Defunkt, Dirty Three and the Mekons. If I filed my record collection alphabetically they'd b...

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