 | Street Signs by Ozomatli
Buy new: $18.98 / Used from: $3.00 Who knew that consciousness-raising could be so much fun?
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 | Global a Go-Go by Joe Strummer & the Mescaleros
Buy new: $12.99 / Used from: $7.49 Strummer connects "to all corners of the globe," and delivers an album that's both stylistically varied and cohesive.
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 | Mundo by Ruben Blades
Buy new: $9.88 / Used from: $3.75 Blades pulls off a neat trick here, expanding both the boundaries of Salsa and of so-called "World Music".
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 | Tékitoi (Who Are You?) by Rachid Taha
Buy new: $16.98 / Used from: $52.67 Not the usual Rai... this is abrasive, agressive, and unforgettable, with a version of "Rock the Casbah" that is worth the price of admission by itself. Somewhere, Joe Strummer is smiling.
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 | África Brasil by Jorge Ben
Buy used from: $49.99 If this album doesn't make your heart race, you're probably already pushing up daisies.
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 | Estrangeiro by Caetano Veloso
Buy new: $17.98 / Used from: $3.97 He's been called Brazil's Sinatra/Dylan/(fill in the blank). In truth, he's Brazil's Caetano Veloso, and he's sui generis.
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 | Remain in Light by Talking Heads
Buy new: $10.99 / Used from: $4.79 Talking Heads would never be this experimental, warped--or quite this good--again. Something akin to alchemy...
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 | My Life in the Bush of Ghosts by Brian Eno
Buy new: $14.99 / Used from: $10.98 For once, Eno wrote and performed as much from the gut as from the head, with amazing results. In the process, he and David Byrne influenced artists as diverse as Public Enemy, Moby, Deep Forest, and PWEI. You will either love this album or hate it; it's impossible to be lukewarm about it.
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 | Karnak by Karnak
Buy used from: $0.99 Frank Zappa on holiday in Bahia? A Carioca Spike Jones? Gilberto Gil meets Alan Lomax? Whatever. It defies any easy description or categorization...
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 | Alfagamabetizado by Carlinhos Brown
Buy used from: $7.16 Anyone who thinks of Brazilian music and expects the staid sounds of Bossa Nova will likely be startled by this album, which is probably a good thing.
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 | 7 Seconds: The Best of Youssou N'Dour by Youssou N'Dour
Buy new: $11.98 / Used from: $5.95 Start here for a decent overview of one of the best musicians to come from Senegal, if not from the entirety of Africa. Then delve deeper into the back-catalog... then thank me, once you've regained your breath from dancing.
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