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p>I was originally going to write about Mitoka Samba's eponymous album that I downloaded from the US Amazon site. Except now, as a France-based referrer, I can't point you to it.  :-(  However, I found a compliation album which features Mitoka Samba and a few other artists as well - doing some interesting recomposing of songs in percussion arrangements.  Enjoy with my original notes on Mitoka Samba below....

I remember a big fuss that was made in the international music scene when Dudu Tucci's first album Obatimale was released over a decade ago.  I listened to it a few times, and all I heard was drumming.  Well, cool, you'd think, for a drummer.  But all I heard was the same thing, over and over and over again.

As a percussionist, I'm interested in breaks and changes in rhythm, not flat consistency.  And all I could hear was consistency.  (One reason I can't handle a lot of techno or trance...).  Oh, and some vaguely cheesy melody