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Release Date: October 25, 2011
Label: Dust-To-Digital

One continent, 100 songs, all transferred from old 78s that probably would've never made it to CD otherwise. The project is archival at heart -- cultural nutrition for well-intentioned first-world folks -- but that doesn't overshadow the joy of the music, which ranges from the comparatively familiar (South African township jazz, Congolese rumba) to obscure-unless-you're-from-Togo choral music, with splotches of colonial influence and 50 backyard variations on tambourines in between.