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Nawal sets her gritty voice to sparse, staccato patterns of upright bass, thumb piano and the banjolike gambusi on “Aman.” She is from the Comoros Islands, which are in the Indian Ocean between Africa and Madagascar, and her music is a personal fusion that draws on the repetitive power of Sufi chants, along with modal acoustic vamps that can sound both African and Arabic. Her songs are lean and incantatory, and they may benefit from a language barrier; every so often she deflates the music with a phrase in English, like “too much pollution.” But more often, she can be hypnotic. 06/29/07
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