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Hi Joe, matteo in Galilee again, last week i gave you Taj Mahal & Toumani Diabate: Cat Fish blues from their album: Kulanjan. This week i give you a very elegant jazzy afro-cuban song by Orchestra Boabab. (H)utras Horas,.. Those “Other Hours” between sundown and sun-up,., the witching hours. The lyrics to this song i found only once & lost them,.. But it takes a cape Verdian Person who still speaks the old Creole-Pigeon-Afro-Cape Verdian language. This song is slow & jazzy & beautiful,., with like 20 talented musicians on stage. YouTube vid sound begins after 12sec.

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Taj Mahal did a tv doc on the making of the album Kulanjan w/ Toumani Diabate. A Koura-sp? Is a sort of ancient African guitar with the body made from a gourd shell. In the tv doc taj talks about his challenge, chasing the “musical math” of delta slave-blues back to this instrument & artist.