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Heavy on the Highlife

From the label: "In the current flood of Afro-Parisian wannabe international hits and London-based two-tone bands, one thing is getting ever harder to find: music made by Africans, for Africans, in Africa. While one national style after another is picked up, messed up and given up, whole dynamic musical scenes emerge and evolve, not only (blessedly) out of sight of the fashion-mongers, but out of reach of those of us who still revel in the real thing. High on the list of these extraordinarily well-kept secrets is the driving, exhilarating sound of eastern Nigerian highlife and its constellatio…