Papé Nziengui - Kadi Yombo (Vinyl) Hand Habits with McLeod’s harmony vocals and

with McLeod’s harmony vocals and guitar adding colours from The Shifting Sands’ South Pacific Cosmic Rock palette to these vignettes of heartbreak and hope

ever-sprawling discography of Alastair Galbraith: poet-dilettante

Interlude (Milo)

Enigma of the Absolute

Black Emperor’s excellent second album

Papé Nziengui - Kadi Yombo (Vinyl) Hand Habits with McLeod’s harmony vocals andKadi Yombo, published in 1989, is the most successful album in the quest for a fusion between tradition and modernity in Bwiti harp music of the Tsogho people of Gabon. Combining beating rattles with a layer of synthesizers, Pap Nziengui blends in a contrapuntal dialogue characteristic of harp playing: male song in appeal and female choir in response, male voice of the musical arc and rhythms of female worship. But, above all, its Tsogho ritual music