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Luaka Bop: Twenty First Century, Twenty First Year

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Luaka Bop: Twenty First Century, Twenty First Year

Greatest hits collection celebrating the David Byrne-founded world music label

Label
Luaka Bop
UK Release date
03/08/2009
  1. 8.0 |   Daily Telegraph

    This greatest hits set highlights how successful the label has been at promoting a hipper view of world music... Despite the breadth of styles and origins, it all hangs together as seamlessly as a languid daydream on a blazing summer’s day – both real and imagined
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  2. 8.0 |   The Irish Times

    Any label that can give shelter to Shuggie Otis’s fuzzy, freaky Aht Uh Mi Hed , Os Mutantees’ sultry Baby , and the Malian funk of Moussa Doumbia on Keleya deserves all the kudos that are going a-begging
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  3. 8.0 |   Uncut

    Print edition only

  4. 6.0 |   The Sunday Times

    If it had done nothing else, David Byrne’s label would deserve our undying gratitude for introducing that ethereal Afro-Peruvian diva Susana Baca to the wider world... If the label is new to you, this is a carefree way to make its acquaintance
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