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"Self-released on cassette in Ghana in 1994, this West African obscurity gained a second lease of life after blogger Brian Shimkovitz purchased the tape at a roadside stall in the country and used it as the inaugural post on his Awesome Tapes Of Africa website. Such was the impact of its unique contents that an internet sensation followed, kick-starting Shimkovitz's site into a cult concern that eventually became a fully fledged record label. Eight years of searching for the elusive Ata Kak have resulted in this much overdue reissue. Recorded on cheap computers and synths (...), it's a raw but joyously ebullient work ... Blessed with great tunes, its irresistible charm finds echoes in both the lo-fi bedroom-produced early house music of Chicago and the rugged energy of New York's nascent hip-hop scene".

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"Echoes of SF Sorrow abound. Moonstruck harmonies and subtly rendered Mellotron lines sew a purple thread throughout Dark Days, and a roseate lost track from 1967, Turn My Head, is not so much revisited as repossessed. They crash headlong into two well-chosen covers - The Byrds' Renaissance Fair and the late-period Seeds B-side, You Took Me By Surprise - and combine eastern inflections, Yardbirds-style Gregorian chanting and their fundamental Bo Diddley pulse on In The Soukh. We might have sequenced the album so that And I Do and The Same Sun, both based around tenacious E-to-D riffs, weren't back-to-back: but it seems irrelevant to carp when faced with such esprit de corps".

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