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’s is No. 8 in Glitterbeat’s ‘Hidden Musics’ series. It’s also the latest work of American producer Ian Brennan – celebrated for recording musicians in isolated, unlikely locations, often under difficult circumstances. This album showcases musicians he recorded outdoors on Grande Comore, the largest of the Comoros islands, northwest of Madagascar. language, played on local stringed instruments and hand drums. Brennan delivers the goods with real bravura here.

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