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	<title>Tolerant Traveler &#187; Africa</title>
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	<description>World Music Reviews &#38; Tolerance to all cultures.</description>
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		<title>Toumastin&#8217;s new flavour of Tinariwen</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 08 Oct 2012 10:28:27 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[If you followed the group Tinariwen on their epic journey from their first release (still in my opinion the most interesting, but probably the least accessible to desert blues virgins) you&#8217;ll really appreciate the way their music has evolved and managed to reach an ever growing fan-base. Toumastin&#8217;s second album, probably hidden from view due [...]
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		<title>Boubacar Traoré &#8211; The bluesman</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 05 Oct 2012 06:22:18 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>The Tolerant Traveler</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I went browsing last week on my favourite world music shop, sternsmusic.com, to see what I might have missed out on since my last visit (children can put months between the things we used to do on a daily basis &#8211; happily!). I noticed that I haad missed out on an album that was in [...]
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		<title>Guinea: the old (part 1/2)</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 25 Jan 2012 12:04:05 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>The Tolerant Traveler</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;ve just been listening to a track by the Bembeya Jazz National (see the video on the right). A track from the 1960s needs some context so here goes: it was following Guinean Independence in 1958 that saw Guinean pride soar to new levels and numerous bands sprang up throughout the African country. Of those [...]
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		<title>Africa 50 Years of Independence 1960-2010</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 25 Jan 2012 10:39:41 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>The Tolerant Traveler</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Africa 50 years of Music]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[If you didn&#8217;t buy the compilation of 2010, &#8220;Africa 50 years of Indepdence 1960-2010&#8221; you are forgiven only as long as you are ignorant of this album, and you have just lost that right by reading this post (sorry about that!). In fact I&#8217;m opening a new category just for this album because it is [...]
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		<title>Cheikh Lo&#8217;s Jamm&#8230;Chill, and enjoy the groove</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 02 Dec 2011 11:25:53 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>The Tolerant Traveler</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I can&#8217;t believe I missed this one, but miss it I did, and so for some of the readers this might be old news. But as I am trying to document the best in World music, I will not be deterred from writing about one of my favourite Senagelese artists, who&#8217;s album releases are a [...]
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		<title>Fatoumata Diawara &#8211; Ivory Coast via Mali with lots of influence</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 30 Nov 2011 09:11:42 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>The Tolerant Traveler</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The latest album to arrive with me is one of those gems that I find myself driven to writing about and sharing with all the readers of this blog. Fatoumata is (at the time of writing) a 30 year rising star of world music. Her singing is a mix of Malian grooves, some more reminiscent [...]
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		<pubDate>Thu, 06 May 2010 14:04:23 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>The Tolerant Traveler</dc:creator>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 27 Feb 2010 21:52:19 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>The Tolerant Traveler</dc:creator>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 23 Oct 2009 14:38:33 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>The Tolerant Traveler</dc:creator>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 23 Oct 2009 08:47:08 +0000</pubDate>
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