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Following the global success of the book/film/album/T-shirt/etc. of The Mambo Kings Play Songs Of Love, the superstar of Sudanese Music Abdel Gadir Salim stuck his tongue firmly in his cheek, called his band the All-Stars and his 1991 album The Merdoum Kings Play Songs Of Love. While I do love the Mambo scene, this Merdoum (song style of the Kurdufan province of Sudan) album rates as one of my all-time faves - the combination of oud, sax and violins underpinned by Afro-Arabic rhythms on bongoes and darabuka is a winner for me, and the fantastic white-toothed smiles of Abdel and his All-Stars on the cover are positively irresistible! Which leads neatly onto my choice of song - Bassama, apparently translates as Smiler. Not only that, the lyric translation in the CD booklet includes the couplet In the streams of Love, you are a wriggly swimmer... - beat that!
Posted on: Sun, 02 Nov 2014 00:55:25 +0000

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