REVIEW Afro Celt Sound System at WOMAD

Monday July 26, 2010

from The Independent

Last Night: Womad, Charlton Park, Wiltshire
By David Taylor

Earlier Afro Celt Sound System tore up the Siam Tent with their cross-cultural mash up of world music – the perfect band to sum up what Womad is about. At one point a kora player, dhol drummer, talking drum maestro and bodhran player jammed over squelchy acid keyboards and a breakbeat. Awesome stuff – and amazing to witness live. On CD it’s hard to apprecciate that everything is live, not Mac trickery.

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