Afro Celt Sound System - Flight (CD)

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With album sales now topping one and a half million and two Grammy nominations to date, Afro-Celt Soundsystem return with their eighth studio effort, Flight.

The album explores themes of migration - both human and avian - with a dazzling cast list of stellar musicians including Emmanuela Yogolelo (music director of the Amani Choir from the Democratic Republic of Congo who has a refugee background as well as working extensively within the wider refugee community of Manchester) and Stone Flowers (the band supported by Music Action International, the charity who help transform lives affected by war, torture and armed conflict through music and song).

Flight features Afro Celt Sound System'€™s trademark driving afro house and drum and bass beats, bold west African brass and exuberant electronic rhythms and bass lines provided by Mass, Simon 'Palmy'€™ Richmond, Richard Evans and Simon Emmerson. Central to the album is a four-part medley recorded for the first time in the band'€™s career as a live performance in London'€™s Strongroom studios - the location were the ACSS was conceived back in the early '€˜90s. This is the closet the band have got to capturing within a recording studio the dynamic of the gigging band; gone are the loops and samples that used to provide the backdrop to the band's sound replaced now by the heartfelt performances that make the band'€™s tour and festival dates so exhilarating.

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