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Mad about music: Sudanese musician Jantra, whose name translates as “craziness”, with his trusty blue Yamaha keyboard, playing at a party in DarGoog in Sudan recently. His album Synthesized Sudan was released by Ostinato Records earlier this year. Photo: Janto Koité/Ostinato Records
SYNTHESIZED SUDAN

The hidden music of Africa is a whole ‘nother reissue

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  • Charles Leonard
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Helping hand: The Strut record label relaunched the career of Ethiopian musician and arranger Mulatu Astatke, who is considered the father of Ethio-jazz. Photo: Alexis Maryon
AFRICAN MUSIC

Move over, Indiana Jones

The reissuing of African music is far more than merely an exercise in nostalgia and ‘retromania’

  • Charles Leonard
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