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 Massukos
Bumping (Poo Productions PPLCD001, 2006)
I sought out Bumping after seeing it reviewed in the ever-trusty UK magazine Songlines. Being entirely unfamiliar with the band Massukos but quite attached to what little music I have from their home country of Mozambique, I was curious for a listen. And oh my, how sweet the sounds that greeted my ears. Most of the songs have a feel that weighs in somewhere between reggae, marrabenta (Mozambique's signature style) and breezy pan-Lusafrican pop, and there's not a weak track to be heard. The group formed in the mid-'90s as Mozambique's lengthy civil war was winding down, though they didn't record their first album until 2001(Bumping is their second).
Maybe their unhurried pace has something to do with how beautifully structured and rhythmically alive their music is. Whateve...
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