This CD compilation is a musical proposal to cancel the debt with which many so-called third world countries are saddled. According to the United Nations Secretary General Kofi Annan, 38% of the budget of African countries is devoted to debt servicing of loans from the World Bank and IMF; this is more than the amount these countries allocate for education, health, and other social services. Put together by Lusafrica label head François Mauger, the 16-track collection features mostly unreleased music from Cesaria Evora, Lenine, Massilia Sound System, Oliver Mtukudzi and others. Highlights include the Chico Cesar & Les Faboulous Trobadors’ hyper-modern café amalgamation "Il Faut Payer" and Sally Nyolo and Shingo’s hand drum-driven "Tilma." An artful argument against a crippling economic ailment, it's hard not to agree with the message when it is so eloquently put forward by musicians who actually come from the countries in question. No "We Are The World" crap from the sidelines here. --Tad Hendrickson
Drop the Debt,Drop the Debt,World Village,Int'l & World Music,International,Pop,V/a Compilations,World Music
New Age Music:
- El Ultimo
- Ethiopia: Ari Polyphonies
- Exotic Oriental Belly Dancing
- Flamenco Master
- Flower of Scotland
- From Seville to Boukhara [Live]
- Haha [CD-single] [Import]
- Here's to the Irish [Box set]
- Hirnschlac [Import]
- I Am the Common Man
New Age Music
Joseph Haydn: Symphonien No. 22, No. 55, No. 64
Music: The Sephardic Experience: Volume 3, Gazelle & Fle
Mr. Deeds [Enhanced] [Soundtrack]
Left Of The Middle [Explicit Lyrics]
Lipstick Traces: a Secret History of Manic Street Preachers [Import]
La Nueva Sensacion Musical de Puerto Rico [Import]
Laura/Suites from Now Voyager, the Informer & Since You Went Away [Import] [Soundtrack]