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Various Artists - 20 Ways to Float Through Walls

by samantha on May 6th, 2007

Reviewed by Toni Marie Pennacchia

A blend of old and new, borrowed and blue of genre-defying world music from a genre-defying record label, Crammed Discs. This compilation blends new and newer established world sounds from big names like the newer, yet established, eclectic Congolese thumb piano players Konono No 1 to other excitinng new sounds of Romanian violins, accordians, and brass of Mahala Rai Banda, lush, multifaceted cha-cha of the Flat Earth Society, and old favorites like Macedonia’s mutant Gypsy band, Kocani Orkestar, and the unclassiable US band, Tuxedomoon from the 1980s, who were very influential in Europe and the rest of the world. Plus much, much more. Highly recommended!

  1. Traz Um Alivio - Apollo Move (2:55) √++
  2. Tabey Tarate - Tartit (3:21) √++
  3. Nine - Wise in Time (3:38) √+
  4. A Stork Crosses the Danube - Taraf de Haïdouks (3:17) √++
  5. De Dar Do - DJ Dolores (3:55) √++
  6. London, London - Cibelle feat. Devendra Banhart (4:11) √+
  7. Duele Le Le - Zuco 103 feat. Dani Macaco (4:02) √++
  8. Usti, Usti Baba - Kocani Orkestar vs. Senor C (3:44) √++
  9. La Collection - Hugo (2:56) √+
  10. The Candle and the Moth - Sussan Deyhim & Bill Laswell (3:03) √++
  11. A Home Away - Tuxedomoon (3:18) √++
  12. Origem da Felicidade - Celso Fonseca (4:20) √+
  13. Homecoming - Tunng vs. Taraf de Haïdouks (3:12) √++
  14. Tshileja - Kasai Allstars feat. Muambuyi (5:06) √++
  15. It’s More Expensive for This - Snooze (3:06) √+
  16. Psychoscout - Flat Earth Society (2:36) √++
  17. Disciplinador - Think of One (3:46) √++
  18. Morceau d’Amour/Spoitoresa (Russ & Roc remix) - Mahala Rai Banda (5:09) √++
  19. TP Couleur Café - Konono Nº1 (4:52) √++
  20. Ceu Distante (DJ Spinna remix) - Bebel Gilberto (4:19) √++

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