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Roberto Musci & Giovanni Venosta - Urban and Tribal Portraits (Soave, r. 2018)

Last year Soave reissued Roberto Musci's "The Loa of Music", which came out of nowhere and completely stunned me. They also reissued Giovanni Venosta's "Olympic Signals", but I missed that one. After those two debuts in the 80's, Musci and Venosta came together and made "Urban and Tribal Portraits". Similar to the only album I can use as a basis of comparison, "The Loa of Music", it continues in the vein of fourth world music, made in a time when I really can't conjure up anything remotely similar that I'm aware of. This isn't as world shaking as "Loa" for me but still really interesting, 12 tracks of occasionally psychedelic, jazzy, folky, arty, avant garde or otherwise unclassifiable genres informed by Musci and Venosta's "world music" travels. It's a little too scattershot - feels more like a compilation than a cohesive work - but I'm glad I'm getting to know these cats better.

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