Title: An honest and arresting global view of music.
Review: World music takes on a whole new -- and truer -- meaning in Manu Chao's first solo record, "Clandestino." In this highly inventive and adventurous recording, the singer-songwriter presents his musical and social interpretations of visits to Latin America, Spain and Africa with cleverly crafted sounds and politically relevant lyrics. Chao, formerly of the Spanish-Franco punk-rock band Mano Negra, places the 16 Spanish-English-French-language tracks into a single articulate current. His compositions, which he wrote and recorded on the spot during a global trek, speak to the universal themes of cultural isolation, unwanted immigration and social dissonance.
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