UNITE: A Gathering of Strangers; Konono No 1: Assume Crash Position | CD review

(Mule Satellite)(Crammed)Don't be put off by the title. UNITE may stand for the somewhat solemn and academic-sounding Urban Native Integrated Traditions of Europe, but this is an entertaining and inventive Transglobal Underground side project, in which programming, guitar and percussion exponents Tim Wheland and Hamid Mantu team up with folk musicians from across Europe to refashion songs of "movement, emigration and exile". Recorded in eight capital cities, this is a Euro-fusion collage of the ...

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