Exile

"Originally from Dakar, Nuru Kane has since lived in France and London. He has picked up on this and that - reggae, funk, blues - but probably most importantly, he went on holiday to Morocco and fell for the magic of Gnawa music and took up the three-stringed gimbri. Add this to his adherence to Mouridic Baye Fall sufism - and to a strong and confident voice - and you have a rich broth of background stuff to draw on ... It is a thoroughly energetic and outgoing piece of work. Instrumentation is basically West African, but this doesn't feel like a local album. Kane's songs are too variously structured - everything from blues to singalong - to be tied down by mere geography. This may leave him open to the charge of being unfocused. In reply, he has endless boldness and vivacity".