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Review: Etran Finatawa: Desert Crossroads

Desert Crossroads couldn't be a more apt title for Niamey, Niger's Etran Finatawa. This sextet's potent, trance-y "nomadic blues" is a blend of two West-Central African ethnic groups-- the Tuareg and the Wodaabe peoples-- who historically have lived in ...

From D. SHAWN BOSLER, Pitchfork,  29 May 2008

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