Tantabara
by Tal National
  • Record Label: Fat Cat
  • Release Date: Feb 16, 2018
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Universal acclaim - based on 6 Critic Reviews

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  1. Positive: 6 out of 6
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  1. The Quietus
    Apr 3, 2018
    80
    The record ends brilliantly with the superb one-two of ‘Trankil’, a truly brilliant pop track, and the immensely sympathetic ‘Aminiata’. The brisk, crisp, ‘that’s your lot’ ending on each of these two tracks somehow makes listening in so much more enjoyable.
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  2. Mojo
    Mar 20, 2018
    80
    A fourth album of brisk Saharan grooves, heavy jamming and trance percussion. [May 2018, p.98]
  3. The Wire
    Mar 12, 2018
    80
    The result is often similar in sound to the classic Malian groups, but much gnarlier. ... The drumming is a pummelling, clattering hailstorm of toms and snares, thrashed out at heart attack tempos. It’s all-consuming, exhilarating and fearfully hard playing, and as a truly disorienting backdrop to a virtuoso band, it pushes Tal National’s music into the realm of the unique.[Mar 2018, p.51]
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