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...sometimes a little hard to imagine the earnest, woeful voice that sings, “If I ever look up to find you on my doorstep / I’d die,” funking out and shaking his thang as he did with Chucklehead (maybe if he sang, “you’ll die…”). But if this is nice-guy music in the best tradition of Coldplay or even the great white Dave Mathews, there is an infectious personality to most of the songs that makes the occasionally disorienting shifts in style...
...criticism of the current government, Mapfumo and his band are now permanently based in the U.S., although only three members of the band were able to perform with him. Stripped of his rich accompaniment, Mapfumo’s rich, expressive voice came across almost plaintively, particularly when he sang, “Makuona here kuti mukomana akatorwa?” (“Did you see that our brother was taken?”) Not all the songs were so mournful: Mapfumo introduced one song about the depredations of alcohol, and how drinking too much had once made...
...That's not surprising. Since its inception five years ago, Al Jazeera (its name means "the Peninsula" in Arabic) has been the toast of Western media. American newsmagazines (including TIME) and newspapers sang the praises of the channel's defiantly novel approach to reporting news in the Middle East. Rather than feed its audience the officially-sanctioned, cookie-cutter version of events typical of the region's state-owned networks, Al Jazeera gives equal time to dissident, even revolutionary views of Islam, human rights and the governments of the region. And such irreverence has naturally earned it plenty of enemies...
...Sang God Bless America...
...Sang the star-spangled Banner...