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& REVIEWS Records, tel (0)207 749 3222; USA— M U S I C World Chul Records tel 800 955 Reviewed by Richard Giles 9588 (toll free) his is the first album in years from NEUROTECH COACHING the great Malian singer Oumou by Jonathan Robert Banks Sangare. Seya ("Joy") features her own Neurotech Coaching, Australia, 2008 compositions with her funky (8CDs, 30mins each) traditional Wassoulou sound and Distributors: Australia—Brumby Books some of Mali’s best musicians. The & Music, tel (03) 9761 5535; songs are about women in Africa, www.neurotechcoaching.com.au forced marriage, polygamy and onathan Banks has a background in children’s issues. In fact, Oumou Jeducation psychology, hypnosis, supports an orphanage in Bamako yoga and meditation and has and is a UN FAO ambassador. An up- pioneered neurotechnology beat album of progressive music in applications in the treatment of pain, | Oumou's irrepressible style. drug addiction and anxiety. These CDs focus on different aspects of INTRODUCING MAMANE BARKA brain wave entrainment to exercise by Mamane Barka the brain and enhance its capabilities | World Music Network, 2009 (57mins) for healing, meditation and peak Distributors: Australia—The Planet performance. Each CD uses Company, tel (02) 9283 8250; UK— entrainment as a way of helping with = World Music Network, tel (0)20 7498 relaxation, learning, stress, 5252, www.worldmusic.net concentration, anxiety, depression alam Mamane Barka, from the and revitalisation. Powerful tools. Meéeser of the Republic of Niger, is the last remaining master of the WITHIN MY WALLS biram, a boat-shaped instrument by The Idan Raichel Project that's played like the kora. A member Cumbancha Music, 2009 (43mins) of the Toubou tribe, Barka became a Distributors: Australia—Fuse Music, tel teacher; in the 1980s, he took up the (02) 9699 7555; UK—Putumayo Music, "gurumi, a traditional stringed tel (0) 7759 600 495; USA— instrument, and became a celebrated Cumbancha Music, tel (802) 425 2118, Paver in his country. In 2002, while www.cumbancha,com meeting with the Boudouma people he exciting Israeli keyboardist Idan ° Lake Chad, ne discovered their Raichel has recorded with his sacred instrument, the biram. Boukar Project and worked and toured with a Tar, a biram master, taught him and diverse range of musicians (see gifted his eee he to him. Playing review of his acclaimed first world- at Womad in 2008, he introduced the release album in NEXUS 15/04). The arm to a world music audience. The : : : amazing music of the biram has a sessions collected on this CD include ; , : . sound like water. singers Marta G6mez from Colombia, Mayra Andrade from Cape Verde, Somi of East African heritage, Shimon Buskila from Morocco, and Idan himself. A multicultural collaboration with unique sounds. SEYA by Oumou Sangare World Music Network, 2009 (56mins) Distributors: Aust—Fuse Music, tel (02) 9699 7555; UK—World Circuit WITHIN MY WALLS by The Idan Raichel Project Cumbancha Music, 2009 (43mins) Distributors: Australia—Fuse Music, tel (02) 9699 7555; UK—Putumayo Music, tel (0) 7759 600 495; USA— Cumbancha Music, tel (802) 425 2118, www.cumbancha.com he exciting Israeli keyboardist Idan Raichel has recorded with his Project and worked and toured with a diverse range of musicians (see review of his acclaimed first world- release album in NEXUS 15/04). The sessions collected on this CD include singers Marta G6mez from Colombia, Mayra Andrade from Cape Verde, Somi of East African heritage, Shimon Buskila from Morocco, and Idan himself. A multicultural collaboration with unique sounds. SEYA by Oumou Sangare World Music Network, 2009 (56mins) Distributors: Aust—Fuse Music, tel (02) 9699 7555; UK—World Circuit JUNE — JULY 2009 NEXUS ¢ 79 www.nexusmagazine.com