In The 7th Moon, The Chief Turned Into A Swimming Fish And Ate The Head Of His Enemy By Magic - Kasai Allstars
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  • Summary: The latest album for the supergroup of 25 musicians from the Democratic Republic of the Congo features both traditional and contemporary instruments.

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  1. Positive: 15 out of 16
  2. Mixed: 1 out of 16
  3. Negative: 0 out of 16
  1. The Boston Phoenix
    100
    The music is neither bastardized nor precious, just a riveting reflection of the ongoing allure and paradox that is the Congo.
  2. Uncut
    80
    Most compelling are the variety of vocals--some spoken, some hollered, some sung in spinetingling harmonies. [Sep 2008, p.98]
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  3. Mojo
    80
    The Allstars have that same dynamism plus a similarly brutal rhythm section, which sounds like a billion wasps playing Sister Ray in your brain, but they have found some missing ingredients, such as melody and variation. [Sep 2008, p.112]
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  4. PopMatters
    60
    In their multi-ethnic make-up, the face-painted, twenty-something strong Allstars chant a slightly more devolved game than fellow marimba manglers Konono No.1, but the cumulative effect is similar, a sustained concussion of sound, a kind of sonic vertigo that subverts the cliché of Congo as perpetual victim.

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