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Outsider Music

If like me, you likes your sounds ‘off the wall’ or ‘off the map’ (a little like South Ossetia until recent events) you will appreciate Ghedalia Tazartes’ Diasporas’.

I have had this cd for years, but it was way down my playlist & only given rapid promotion because of last month’s ‘Wire’ article on the artist.

It was on the excellent Nurse With Wound list & rightly so. It is a work of genius/madness.(This reminds me that another outsider artist: Daniel Johnson is featured in the documentary ‘The Devil & Daniel Johnson’ is being shown again this week on tv.)

There wont be many copies of ‘Diasporas’ bleeding out from I-pods on your way to work this a.m. that’s for sure.

I am reminded of all the other true talents working in this area: Holger Czukay, Sun City Girls & Roberto Musci & Giovanni Venosti.

If you do not like the fact that most world music has become insipid, over-produced, ethnic-lite for the coffee table set, then grab a hold of this crazy album that crosses borders & back within seconds & focuses on all the interesting bits of ethnic music throughout the world & runs riot with it.