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Q (3/96, p.91) - 3 Stars - Good - "...this is a new band playing the music as well as it has ever been played..."Down Beat (3/96, p.57) - 4.5 Stars - Very Good/Excellent - "...instrumental Cuban dance music....Alemany...has a fat, greasy tone and a stratospheric high register, while Alfredo Rodriguez has a crunching, percussive command of the piano, both showing little jazz influence. The band...smokes like a fine cigar..."Option (5-6/96, p.91) - "...very close to a dream team of Cuban musicians....After listening...you'll understand why this island attracted so many foreigners before Castro came into power..."New York Times (Publisher) (4/14/96, Sec.2, p.30) - "...[CUBANISMO] simmers with the excitement of a party....A recording studio is on occasion blessed by being a witness to a session that equals in intensity music performed in a club. This recording documents one of those times."35.26873
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Rolling Stone (8/5/99, p.67) - 3 stars (out of 5) - "...this collection of the occasional songs [Loudon] occasionally composes for National Public Radio enjoys the advantage of his perpetual cleverness..."Entertainment Weekly (7/16/99, p.70) - "...unmatched facility for the dagger-sharp rhyme and the revealing anecdote..." - Rating: B-Q (8/99, p.115) - 4 stars (out of 5) - "...Make 'em laugh must have been the instruction. He does, but he's better when delving into his own foibles and failings."CMJ (7/26/99, p.32) - "...SOCIAL STUDIES is your 'must have' of the week..."14.35508
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Down Beat (12/95, p.73) - 3.5 Stars - Good/Very Good - "...ethereal melodies and energetic rhythms..."14.35508
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Entertainment Weekly (10/04/96, p.62) - "...Cale nicely merges his baroque melodic consciousness with his still-sharp pop instincts..." - Rating: A-Q (11/96, p.119) - 4 Stars - Excellent - "...Crushing."NME (Magazine) (10/12/96, p.51) - 4 (out of 10) - "...we are in the Talking Heads-sponsored land of super-slick, pensive pop here....A wise man once said that most people would rather own up going to an adult cinema than listening to an adult pop LP....it's not hard to see why.14.35508
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Mojo (Publisher) (p.96) - 3 stars out of 5 - "[V]aried, melodic and lyrical....Manzanera's songwriting on this evidence seems in fine fettle."14.35508
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Q (8/00, p.99) - 4 stars out of 5 - "...A curate's egg, indeed, but thoroughly entertaining."CMJ (6/00, p.61) - "...As greasy and tasty as good barbecue....This is the sound of a man searching for the heart of American music, and quite possibly finding it..."JazzTimes (11/00, p.120) - "...An ambitious record....[Hart] focuses exclusively on electric guitar and dredges up some nasty tones on hard-edged rock numbers..."No Depression (7-8/00, p.104) - "...Combines '70s soul, rock and jazz in the company of Big Star and Replacements producer Jim Dickinson....proving Hart can do just about anything as well as anybody..."Mojo (Publisher) (6/00, p.112) - "...a fragmented post-modernist album, often startling, always fascinating."14.35508
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JazzTimes (10/97, p.83) - "...another fine and fiery album....an assemblage of mighty players...the instrumental prowess is firmly in place...this music is driven by a powerful groove imperative..."14.35508
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Entertainment Weekly (9/1/00, p.80) - "...Open-minded listeners will succumb to the album's hybrid charms....fusing Cuban 'sabrosura' with Cajun soul..." - Rating: B+CMJ (8/28/00, p.3) - "...A concept record as simple and well-conceived as red beans and rice, spiced with sizzling brass and unrelenting polyrhythms..."JazzTimes (12/00, p.130) - "...With strong vibrant flavors from the same musical stock, this new millenium gumbo is a tasty delight."14.35508
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Entertainment Weekly (2/9/96, p.54) - "...the gifted Hungarian singer zigzags from Ireland to India, bring[ing] us closer to a 21st-century inevitability--one big worldwide music culture, into which regional sounds are absorbed..." - Rating: BQ (3/96, p.103) - 4 Stars - Excellent - "...one more global experiment that works quite beautifully..."JazzTimes (4/96, p.63) - "...KISMET spans the globe, lovingly and with a loving spirit....There is a cohesion within exploration here..."Dirty Linen (4-5/96, pp.57-59) - "...an effort to be highly praised..."Sing Out! (5-6-7/96, p.152) - "...Nobody else has a voice like this: low but sharp as a knife, with a wide, easy vibrato, perfect diction and lazy, looping, Byzantine ornaments..."The Beat (V.15 #3 1996, p.70) - "Time stands still, the compass needle spins at random, and Sebestyen stops the world in its tracks with some of the most heart-felt and moving `people' music to be heard anywhere on the planet."14.35508
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Mojo (Publisher) (p.128) - 4 stars out of 5 - "Layered vocal and instrumental sounds as the Roxy guitarist recalls his Columbian roots."14.35508
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Q - 3 Stars - Good14.35508
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Uncut (p.97) - 4 stars out of 5 -- "[With] scraped strings, prepared pianos, creaking pump organs....[They] inject a very cinematic sense of terror..."The Wire (p.66) - "Allusions to the fractures and dispersive language of modernist composition are incorporated within adaptations of the communal sound of Eastern European and Jewish folk traditions."Down Beat (p.58) - 4 stars out of 5 -- "Throughout its most breadth-taking album so far, Tin Hat sustains its spirit of chamber Gypsyism while creating an array of fractured, luminescent melodies."JazzTimes (p.116) - "With all five players writing, the end result still sounds cohesive, at a point where chamber music, free-jazz adventure and silent-movie soundtracks meet."Mojo (Publisher) (p.110) - 4 stars out of 5 -- "15 mostly instrumental vignettes, fused seamlessly together into an absorbing multi-textured sonic tapestry."14.35508
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JazzTimes (10/95, p.158) - "...straightforward, yet rich and rhythmic ensemble setting....liberally lined with purposeful improvisation,...rewarding, acoustic-inclined listening. The group tills an ancient musical soil of West Africa, by way of the world."Option (3-4/96, p.100) - "...Toumani Diabate plays the kora with the fiery energy and passionate outbursts of a flamenco guitar..."11.48407
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Entertainment Weekly (10/16/98, p.88) - "...The communal vibe and organically elegant performances make this a poignant meditation on the meaning of family and the power of shared history." - Rating: A-11.48407
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CMJ (3/15/99, p.29) - "...Hank Dogs offer heavenly melodies and harmonies back by some impressive acoustic guitar playing..."Dirty Linen (10-11/99, pp.61-2) - "...in the arachnid sense; it clutches, twists you in, and resists efforts to escape its magic....BAREBACK is a delicate creation....If Hank Dogs are as fey as this album attests, the spell will last for a while longer."11.48407
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Q (3/99, pp.93-94) - 3 Stars (out of 5) - "...Alemany mixes his own tunes with sprightly 50's and 60's dust-offs, his compressed needle-trumpet always scooting high in the mix, consolidating the band's looming stature on the Havana studio scene..."11.48407
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Dirty Linen (10-11/99, p.78) - "...all kinds of new possibilities unfold unexpectedly. This creativity makes NEW ANCIENT STRINGS a particularly commendable kora recording."11.48407
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The Wire (p.69) - "[D]ownright enjoyable....It's extremely human music -- their orchestration is imaginative and endlessly inventive -- and rather than gloomy, it's moody and magnificent."Record Collector (magazine) (p.95) - 4 stars out of 5 -- "[W]onderful examples of music that set its own rules."9.979838
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