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A Return Not a Discovery

Richard Cook, New Musical Express, 11 September 1982

The New African Music, part one: "More difficult to cage than reggae. It leaps and sprawls... It can go on and on because nobody wants it to stop... It moves emblazoned with an urgency that never quite spills into panic..." A musical safari through Tanzania and Kenya

Total word count of piece: 5451

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