World music gets a bad rap, deservedly or not. I don't think there's any shame in admitting that a lifetime of 4/4's and 12-tone scales has left you a little cool on obscure Melakartas and polyrhythms. There's a lot of momentum there, and you don't have to kill yourself to undo it.
This though, is a nice transition, decidedly outside Western tradition, totally listenable, providing sunflecked atmosphere without baking your brain. N-Dour's personality shines through, making an album that is accessible without feeling impure (unlike, say, his later collaborations with Peter Gabriel, that feel comparatively whitewashed) 4/5
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