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King Sunny Ade and his African Beats: Synchro System (Mango)

Don Snowden, Los Angeles Times, 24 July 1983

APPROACHING SUNNY ADE'S juju music from a Western pop perspective is difficult, because his creative objective is a smooth flow with nothing much happening in terms or dramatic, emotional peaks.

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