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Trance-inducing music from Sudanese mystic healing ceremonies, hip-quaking Nubian wedding melodies, ritualistic tales of an Arabian Dracula and songs recounting the mysterious disappearance of sardine rations in the Egyptian army all played on vintage 190-year-old rango xylophone with spirit manifesting gourd resonators, simsimiyya & tanbura lyres retrofitted with electric pickups, and shakers made from recycled aerosol cans, performed by the Cairo-based Rango collective.
"Easily one of the most joyous and exhilarating concerts of the year"
****The Times
"Trance-inducing Sudanese sonic voodoo"
Time Out
"Penetrates the bones like an X-ray...an album of huge variety, energy and depth"
****Songlines
"All-out good time, hip-shaking dance music"
The National (Abu Dhabi)
"Tribal, hypnotic groove"
****Limelight (Australia)
"Whipping up a metallic percussive storm"
Mondomix
"Polyrhythmic explosions of love, possession and pure joy"
The Independent
"Witty and life-affirming"
Metro
"Leaves you itching to hear this live"
****The Telegraph
****"Electrified sound as heard in Cairo's Sudanese quarter"
London Evening Standard
"Rockin', deep roots Sudanese trance music"
fRoots
"Like Clint's 45, this music will blow your head clean off"
London Lite
