John McDowell
Speaking the Mamma Tongue

This music, from the composer of the soundtrack for the Academy Award winning film, Born into Brothels, encompasses the spirit of ancient cultures from Africa, Native North America, Tibet and the Middle East. A fusion of ethnic instruments, diverse rhythms, colorful melodies and ancient languages.

This Sting associate checks in with a genre busting date that has grabbed the ears of anyone who comes in contact with it. Calling it world beat is just using a short hand way to describe it to you. A tasty, richly textured date that keeps coming and will probably be hailed as state of the art adult listening. The perfect record for when you're looking for that highly creative audio getaway that let's you slip behind it's audio curtain where nothing can get at you. Wild.

Positive grooves coarse through this album like veins pumping lifesaving blood....Light years ahead of its time.