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"Sound on Sound 'the HDR-1 is an excellent microphone that can often reach the parts other mics can't."

"The HDV-1 has a useful combination of warmth and presence, it certainly offers good valueand it is capable of great results too."

"Invisible System: 5 stars Financial Times and Los Angeles Is The Place, 4 stars fRoots, iTunes allmusic.com, altsounds.com, Rock N Reel/R2 Mag, World Music Network, New York Times, BBC etc"

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New low key E.P. release The Cauldron but out now and reviews in the financial times this weekend http://www.ft.com/cms/s/2/34e99e2a-35a1-11e1-84b9-00144feabdc0.html#axzz1jAyToniA
 
 

The new album *Street Clan by Invisible System* scored many fantastic *5 and
4 star* reviews with its praises highly sung in print from e.g.

*The New York Times (Jon Pareles)*

*fRoots Magazine (Jamie Renton)*

*The Financial Times (David Honnigman)*

*Rock N Reel / R2 Magazine (David Haslam) *

*Uncut Magazine (Nigel Williamson)*

*BPM Mag, South Africa (Damien Albetto) etc*





plus the same online with e.g.
 

*the BBC (Robin Denselow)*

*World Music Network (TJ Nelson)*

*www.allmusic.com* <http://www.allmusic.com>* /Itunes (Chris Nickson)*

*Los Angeles **www.LAsThePlace.com* <http://www.LAsThePlace.com>* *



Gondwana Sound (Jill Turner)



It also reviewed a very strong written review (see below) alongside 3 stars
with e.g.
 

*The Telegraph (Mark Hudson)*

*Plus numerous 5 star reviews from internet blogs e.g. *

*USA – Continuum Transfunctioner (see below)*

* *

*Radio Play*

It has given given strong praise and much airplay airplay especially *from
BBC 6 Music’s (Gideon Coe)* its less traditional world / fusion roots plus
also airplay from e.g. *BBC 3’s (Late Junction, Max Reinhardt), BBC London
(DJ Ritu),* many regional BBC radio stations, interviews and airplay
with *Radio


New Zealand, RRR Australia, national stations in Italy, Spain, Germany,

France, Switzerland* plus just far too many to mention in the *USA and other
European countries.*

Last asked I think it had reached *no. 25 in the World Music European
Charts.*

* *



It was a happy time for Harper Diabate and reflected years of Dan Harper’s
personal and professional hard work in aid work and music and helped to give
him the deserved exposure and credit for his efforts that was not arising
with other projects.

For now, check out our new www.writhlingtonstudios.co.uk brand new Pro Tools
HD Recording Studio with naturally lit live rooms and beautiful mics /
equipment at unbeatable rates.  The studio is available to hire with Dan
Harper as in-house manager/producer and engineer at only £20/hour due to an
educational subsidy.

Best wishes
Harper Diabate


Invisible System Takes World Fusion Music to a New Level with New CD Street

Clan<http://lastheplace.com/2011/03/25/invisible-system-takes-world-fusion-music-to-a-new-level-with-new-cd-street-clan/>

5 stars www.LAsThePlace.com

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http://lastheplace.com/2011/03/25/invisible-system-takes-world-fusion-music-to-a-new-level-with-new-cd-street-clan/
*

Master musician *Dan Harper* and *Invisible System* has once again
orchestrated a fusion masterpiece with his new CD *Street Clan*. With a more
aggressive tone than last years *Punt* (Made in Ethiopia), Street Clan


combines a European base with a Jamaican groove and an Ethiopian feel.



At first listen, I thought this CD would be great for a London or West
Hollywood underground club. The second listen made me think it really needs
to be played with hundreds of people in a mosh pit. After playing it
everyday for a week, I finally realized this CD is perfect for one person in
a mosh pit with hundreds of wild animals! This is mass confusion at its
best! You will not be able to decide if you should go to a hip club or go on
an African safari. Either way, the music is superb and the human expression
is amazing.

Street Clan has grabbed graffiti from an international wall and transferred
the meaning behind it into music. With a cast of experienced musicians from
around the world, Invisible System’s Street Clan gets another five star
review!
 
Check it out at *www.HarperDiabate.com*



*www.allmusic.com* <http://www.allmusic.com>* / ITunes***

*Chris Nickson*

There's a huge sea change between Invisible System's debut and this
sophomore outing. Where the first was definitely based around Ethiopian
music, this is a much more amorphous and adventurous beast. If it needs to
be defined, it's a rock -- maybe even post-rock -- album. Ethiopia is still
there, and some of the music was recorded in Addis Ababa. But many of the
sounds were made in England using a truly staggering range of musicians, and
there's a powerful Jamaican influence at work here, too. If you need an
analogy, think of the work of Adrian Sherwood, or even some PiL (in fact,
"Mutant Miners" sounds like it could be have been smuggled off some
fantastical PiL album). This is world music in the sense that it was made by
people from different parts of the globe coming together, but its roots are
in the here and now rather than in any tradition. It's challenging,
adventurous, and heavily textured; the tracks were recorded live and later
chopped up and mixed, although you'd never notice the joints. It might prove
to be one of the finds of 2011, a real sonic adventure that speaks highly of
Dan Harper, the man behind it all.

 
*
New York Times Review* *– Jon Pareles*
Invisible System – Street Clan
*
http://www.nytimes.com/2011/04/17/arts/music/cds-from-alison-krauss-colin-stetson-and-dennis-coffey.html?_r=1&scp=1&sq=street%20clan&st=cse

*
As an aid worker in Ethiopia and Mali, Dan Harper started recording local
singers and bands. Then, as a musical project he called Invisible System, he
started tinkering — extensively and transformatively — with what he
collected, playing guitar, bass and synthesizers and adding collaborators.
On Invisible System’s second album, “Street Clan” (Harper Diabate), the
African sounds are melded with mean metal riffs, funk bass lines, dance
beats, psychedelic guitar jams, dub-style echoes, the righteous declamations
of a Jamaican-British reggae singer (Dennis Wint) and more. It’s a
latter-day, more chopped up, more aggressive follow-through on the ideas of
“My Life in the Bush of Ghosts.” The roiling results have some of the
volatility of the Mars Volta and Jimi Hendrix and the implacability of Lee
Scratch Perry. The reggae honors the Rastafarian tenet of a return to
Ethiopia, although it sometimes tilts toward cliché. But the Ethiopian
singers — Zewditu Tadesse, Tawebe and Mimi — are all grabbers: raspy and
passionate, their voices leaping out of the tracks.


 
*BBC Review (Robin Denselow 2011-04-21)*
 



“More wild, frantic and unexpected than its well-received predecessor. ”

It’s impossible not to admire Dan Harper. Until five years ago, he was an
aid worker in Ethiopia, where he not only became fascinated by the country’s
remarkable music scene but built his own studio in Addis Ababa and managed
to persuade leading local artists to record with him. He also invited
producer and bassist Nick Page, also known as Count Dubulah, out to Ethiopia
and introduced him to his musical friends; as a result, Page formed his
highly successful Ethiopian fusion band Dub Colossus.
Once he returned to England, where he now works as an unconventional music
teacher in the West Country, Harper continued work on a fusion project of
his own. He persuaded an impressive selection of British musicians to add
their contributions to his Ethiopian recordings, and the result was the
album Punt, credited to a band Harper called Invisible System. It included a
remarkable cast, from the legendary Ethiopian singer Mahmoud Ahmed through
to punk hero Captain Sensible, guitarist Justin Adams and Count Dubulah; the
results veered from African styles to psychedelic rock, trip-hop and dub.
Although this was originally something of an obscure DIY release, Harper
managed to bring his work to national attention, and won impressive reviews.
Since then, the two Ethiopian fusion experiments have continued. Dub
Colossus, now a rousing live band rather than merely a studio project, have
a new album of Ethio-jazz and reggae fusions, Addis Through the Looking
Glass, while Invisible System have a very different second set, Street Clan.
Once again, the album is based around recordings that Harper made in Africa
– this time in Mali as well as Ethiopia – to which he adds his own guitar,
bass, synth programming, percussion and production work. Then there are
contributions from a new set of Western musicians, including the great
American guitarist Skip McDonald, Adrian Utley from Portishead, Stuart
Fisher (who has worked with Courtney Love), and members of psychedelic
hippie heroes Ozric Tentacles. Then there’s Jamaican singer Dennis Wint, who
Harper met in the Somerset town of Frome, where he lives and works.
Street Clan is even more wild, frantic and unexpected than Punt, with
sections that work brilliantly and tracks where Ethiopian vocals are
surrounded by a blitz of thrash guitar and percussion, results ranging from
exhilarating to messy. The best tracks come towards the end, where the
emphasis shifts from the clash of African vocals with full-tilt Western
guitars, through to more conventional dub reggae. There’s still an African
edge to Teenage Lion and Broken Heart, thanks to the vocal work from Zewditu
Tadesse; but Wint dominates the songs with an energy and style that makes
him sound like an unlikely male answer to early Patti Smith.
 
* *

*Nigel Williamson, Uncut Review : Ethiopiques Goes Global Chapter Two**

*Invisible System's acclaimed debut Punt - Made in Ethiopia was a thrilling

contemporary re-imagination of the Ethiopiques sound, combining authentic
African recordings with dub, drum'n'bass and electronic programming to
create the sort of album Damon Albarn might make if he pitched up in Addis
Ababa.

Assisted by sympathetic fusionists from Portishead, Little Axe and Ozric
Tentacles as well as a cast of African musicians - notably the brilliant
voice of Zewditu Tadesse - the follow up is cut from similar cloth but shows
even greater ambition, giving us such previously unknown genres as Ethiopian
garage ("Zedanmer") and African motorik ("Bone Flaps").


INVISIBLE SYSTEM
****
Street Clan
(HARPER DIABATE RECORDS) *www.harperdiabate.com*


Dave Haslam
Rock N Reel / R2 Mag
 
*Following Invisible System’s acclaimed, award nominated, debut Punt (Made

In Ethiopia) comes this second eclectic helping of global fusion that once
again knocks any preconceptions of ‘world music’ into a cocked hat. As with
its predecessor Street Clan brings together Ethiopian musicians with members
of bands as diverse as Hole, Portishead, Little Axe, Eat Static and The
Ozric Tentacles and, just to make things even more interesting, adds a
couple of Jamaican reggae vocalists, (Sydney Salmon from Shashamene,
Ethiopia and Dennis Wint who Invisible System main man Dan Harper bumped
into in Frome High Street) to the mix. Their involvement adds yet another
dimension to an album that leads you along until you think you’ve got handle
on proceedings before throwing a curve ball and setting off in a totally
different direction. Spontaneous, joyous and full of sonic surprises it’s an
unlikely endeavour  where anything can, and often does, happen, with
Ethiopian and Jamaican voices merging over music that ranges from beat heavy
psychedelic guitar driven Krautrock (‘Live Up To Love’)to disjointed
thrash-punk guitar and drums with traditional Ethiopian instruments (‘Mutant
Miners’) and with every possible variation between. It really shouldn’t
work, but it does and wonderfully so.*



*BPM Magazine, South Africa, Damien Albetto*

http://bpmmag.co.za/musicreviews/invisible-system-%E2%80%93-street-clan-harper-diabate-records/
Album Review: Invisible System – Street Clan (Harper Diabate Records) *<World
Beat>* Dan Harper aka Invisible System is known for fusing Ethiopian, dub,
 

reggae, techno, trance , drum & bass with rock, folk and well, just about
anything else that makes the music psychedelic. His album Punt (Made in
Ethiopia) released in 2009 was met with wide critical acclaim as it
challenged the conventional. Street Clan continues this trend of mixing up
cultural styles as he delivers a mix of dark Ethiopian folkish songs with
hippy electronica. The album is jam packed with  so many well respected
musicians;  Adrian Utley (Portishead), Skip McDonald (African Head Charge,
Grandmaster Flash, Little Axe, On-U-Sound / Adrian Sherwood, Tackhead etc),
Merv Pepler (Eat Static/Ozric Tentacles etc); Stuart Fisher (Hole/Courtney
Love), Zewditu Tadesse (Ethiopiques) and Dennis Wint UK/Jamaican Roots
Reggae vocalist all participate amongst others. Street Clan is a lot more
frantic than its predecessor, Punt, but nevertheless it has a certain charm
and irresistible attraction that makes for an absorbing if not challenging
listen. Thrashing guitars and frenetic beats meet Ethiopian folk songs in
what can sound very cohesive at times and at others quite messy. An
interesting listen nevertheless, particularly the quieter moments.



The Daily Telegraph
By Mark Hudson 08 Apr 2011
Harper Diabate, £11.99

Mixing dark-toned Ethiopian folk sounds with West Country hippy electronica,
this enterprising DIY production draws in contributions from British indie
players from Portishead to On-U-Sound System. Touches of Krautrock, dubstep
and a certain raw, informal drive make this one of the more interesting of
many projects inspired by the great Ethiopiques series

The Financial Times – David Honnigman
4 stars!


Whopping Crossbreed of Genres
By
TJNelson (World Music Network)
– April 17, 2011Posted in: CD Reviews

Invisible System - Street Clan

Street Clan (Harper Diabate Records, 2011)
Following up on their Songlines World Music Award Best Newcomer nominated CD
Punt (Made in Ethopia), Invisible System, headed up by Dan Harper, is back
with their sophomore recording Street Clan. Recorded in Ethiopia, Mali and
the United Kingdom on Mr. Harper’s off time from his gig as an aid worker,
Street Clan is another fantastical ride with guest appearances by
Portishead’s Adrian Utley, Skip McDonald, Eat Static and The Ozirc Tentacles
and percussionist Stuart Fisher. Delving into a razor-sharp
otherworldliness, Invisible System tumbles headlong into an edgy course
filled with plenty of twists and turns.
Packed with 17 tracks, Street Clan is a whopping crossbreed of genres,
covering the map from dance to dub to reggae to rock to post-punk and to
psychedelia. With such a daunting cornucopia of sounds and divergent
directions, I wonder if perhaps it wouldn’t have been wiser to break up the
tracks into two different recordings.
Personally, I found some of the post-punk, thrash tracks a little discordant
with the overall sound. It’s one of those things where you have an idea of
where the artist is going, but you’re not sure you want to follow. Listeners
shouldn’t be discouraged because there are some excellent tracks on Street
Clan.
Invisible System’s vocalist Zewditu Tadesse hits the mark on opening track
“Tizita” against an eerie background of electronic, shadowy guitar and
clever percussion. Equally good is the track “Ambassel” with Mimi’s Azmari
traditional band and backed by some slick guitar licks. Dipping into the
edgy, “Bone Flaps” is all guitar fire, drums, bass and Zewditu’s vocals in a
sort of African punk homage.
Standout gems include the trippy reggae tinged “Woman’s Love,” the
electronica charged “Live Up to Love” that screams trance joy and the
hypnotic “Oumabetty” with its mix of rhythms, mournful sax lines and liquid
vocals. “Teenage Lion” gets a jacked up treatment by Invisible System’s
vocalists Zewditu Tadesse and the husky voiced Dennis Wint against a
sway-backed reggae beat that pulses with sheer goodness.
Street Clan is akin some wild and wonderful underground cave club where the
musical colors keep shifting and you just can’t help jumping into the very
center.
Buy the album:
  •    In North America: Street Clan. Other recordings available: Punt
  •    In Europe: Street Clan. Other recordings available: Punt


 
*fRoots Magazine (Jamie Renton)*

**


The origins of Dubulah’s project can be traced back to his stay out in
Ethiopia as a guest of Brit producer/multi-instrumentalist Dan Harper, whose
Invisible System project takes apparently similar ingredients to Dub
Colossus with very different results. As on IS’s debut, 2009’s Punt, Harper
has invited a whole range of performers from Ethiopia and also the UK’s alt
rock and reggae scenes, to improvise something for him to play with, mix and
generally sound-sculpt into a series of tracks which (when this process
works), are greater than the sum of their disparate and off-the-cuff parts.
Street Clan has got a more unified sound than its predecessor, an earthy
rumble of rock, dub and Ethiopian influences, its lo-fi character driven as
much by necessity (Harper wasn’t blessed with the record label patronage
that allowed Dub Col their studio trimmings) as by choice. Like Dubulah’s
album it’s a sprawling affair, checking in at nearly 80 minutes, and its
rockier excursions aren’t to my taste. But there are some dirty-beautiful
moments of musical transcendence here, especially when the combination of
young Ethio singer Zewditu Tadesse and UK-Jamaican vet Dennis Wint roar and
ride over the mutant dub-Ethiopiques-techno-rock backing. As with his
earlier album, Street Clan repays repeated attention.
• www.harperdiabate.com | Buy from Amazon.co.uk




 
*Wednesday, June 8, 2011*

*Invisible System--Street Clan--Not your Parent's Global-Au-Go-Go *
 


I don't know precisely what it is about Invisible Clan, the musical
collective overseen by Dan Harper, whether it is just great talent or the
next generation of studio innovations. I have to believe it is a potent
combination of both factors. In any event, I have to say I am pretty bowled
over by this ambitious recording, which I heard about in the NY Times, of
all places. The album strikes me as visionary.

A very simplistic thumbnail description of Street Clan (their 2nd album
after Punt) would be a collaborative synthesis of Ethiopian music, Jamaican
music & fiery post punk.

And the music is aggressive sounding.

But there are even more things going on here than that, including
psychedelia, funk, dance, electronic, Sub-Saharan African music and even
some Sonny Sharrock styled fusion guitar.

It's not easy to play in a variety of styles well. But when you mix these
styles together, seamlessly weaving back and forth you are simply on a level
of greatness.

On top of this you have some great vocalists performing like Jamaican singer
Dennis Wint and the unbelievable Zewditu Tadesse. Hearing him sing is simply
revelatory. I think if Joe Strummer were alive today, he would be praising
this music to the high heavens.

Anyone who loves interesting music will definitely find a lot to love here.
For me it does not get any better than the amazing Bone Flaps. For that song
alone the album is worth purchase.

A remarkable vocal by Tadesse, and its like he's being backed by New
Zealand noise monsters Bailter Space. You have to hear this to believe it.

Every time I listen, I hear new things, new instrumentations and
subtleties. And righteous echoey dub. Songs like Bone Flaps and Mutant
Miners are realizations of fusion music that were in my head. Fusion Music
in the dynamic way I always wished it could be.



Highest praise here. Check this out and be amazed. And I just checked out
the website for Harper Diabete records. They actually manufacture their own
high quality microphones in addition to making recordings.

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Street Clan

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Invisible System return with another highly original eclectic fusion album.
Following their internationally acclaimed and Songlines World Music Awards
Best Newcomer Nominated CD Punt (Made in Ethiopia), Street Clan is named
after some graffiti Dan Harper found in Mali, West Africa.

It is again not a pure world music album.  It covers genres such as rock,
dance, drum and bass, dub, reggae, Ethiopian, post-punk, kraut rock, pop,
psychedelia and even this time rnb and dubstep.

17 tracks take you through a real journey of shockingly original pulsating
sounds that tie to Punt but sound more accomplished and distinctive in
style.  The album was again recorded between Ethiopia, Mali and the UK
whilst Dan Harper was aid working, with the mixing finished in country.

Many known guests again feature on this album ranging from Portishead’s
Adrian Utley and Skip McDonald (On-U-Sound / African Head Charge, The Sugar
Hill Gang, Tackhead and Little Axe), to Eat Static and The Ozric Tentacles,
an original Ethiopiques singer and Courtney Love’s drummer from Hole.  Other
vocalists include new Ethiopian talent as well as those Dan recorded on Punt
and set up Realworld’s Dub Colossus with; two Jamaican roots vocalists, one
who lives in Shashamene, Ethiopia with 3 generations of his family after
leaving New York.  It also features artwork by Bristol based graffiti artist
Warp/Los Mutartis, a favourite of Banksy.  The album bridges the connections
between Ethiopia, Jamaica and the UK.
Festival bookings are starting to take place with Invisible System having
already played the main stages at e.g. Endorset, Thimbleberry and Music Port
Festivals as well as support for Dreadzone.

Radio play is inevitable with the previous album played on e.g. BBC 6, BBC
3, BBC World Service, BBC Asian Net, BBC London, BBC Bristol, BBC C&G, Radio
New Zealand, Radio Prague, RRR Australia and countless stations around other
European countries and the USA/Canada.

Reviews are due in the international press again with the last album having
been extremely favourably reviewed in Mojo, Uncut, Rock N Reel/R2, fRoots,
The Guardian, The Independent, The Daily Telegraph, ITunes, AllMusic.com,

World Music Network, Financial Times (5 stars), Los Angeles (5 stars) *
www.lastheplace.com*, etc.

For more details contact Harper Diabate via *sales@harperdiabate.com* /
07515 400362

 

Invisible System : Punt (Made in Ethiopia)


A brief run-down with the most recent reviews for Punt here, all Street Clan (new album) reviews below:

5 star reviews e.g. Financial Times and www.LAsThePlace.com
4 star reviews e.g. Rock N Reel / R2 Magazine, World Music Network, www.allmusic.com (itunes), altsounds.com, fRoots etc

Nominated for the best newcomer Songlines World Music Awards 2010


‘sturdy Ethiopian vocals are matched against backing that veers from wailing
psychedelic rock to trance, trip-hop and dub, it's an impressive achievement.’
- The Guardian, Robin Denselow

'New rave goes global.  The rave crowd may love such deranged energy.' - Uncut, Nigel Williamson

‘some of the album’s tracks have a brooding intensity which make them as
compelling as anything I’ve heard this year ‘- Songlines, Howard Male

‘you can imagine this becoming a mind blowing rave classic, pushing the envelope
 beyond Ethiopqiues nostalgia.’ - MOJO, David Hutchenson

‘there are moments of electrifying mystique’  - Fly Global, Tim Woodall

’there's a pleasing headiness to its rough charm’ - The Independent, Andy Gill

‘a startlingly original combination of Ethiopian roots and pop with dub, electronica
and psychedelic rock’ - fRoots, Jamie Renton

‘this wonderfully strange and slightly otherworldly album’ refuses resolutely to be pigeon holed. One of the most startlingly original musical adventures of the year giving a whole new meaning to the term ‘fusion music’. - R2 / rock N Reel, Dave Haslam

‘like an exotic mythology flung into outer space‘ - World Music Network, TJ Nelson

‘an unhinged sense that anything could happen, it grows with each listen’ - fRoots, Jamie Renton

'it's clear that Harper is led by his compassion. He's managed to illustrate the process of identification between an English sound and the music of this African nation. Ethiopia is generally considered the jumping off point of human migration. A starting line for mans expansion. With "Punt," Invisible System has managed to bring us all back home.' 'USA - 8/10 www.altsounds.com

‘It’s an album that, to its credit, solidly defies easy description.  It needs to be heard several times and each reveals a new delight’ - AllMusic.com, Chris Nickson

‘Each time you hear the songs, you hear something different as this will be the longevity of this world class fusion CD’ - LAsThePlace.com, Los Angeles

'The DIY feel of the arrangements suits the brooding other-wroldliness of the Ethiopian vocals far better than many more expensive productions.' - The Telegraph, Mark Hudson

'I encourage everyone to check it out, but not try to capture it..just feel it.' - Max Benkole Jarrett, BBC World Service

‘Brings together a fine mix of musicians to create a festive-sounding album recorded in Ethiopia’ – New Internationalist

Best albums of the decade! We got no.56! http://www.bscreview.com/2009/12/best-albums-of-the-decade-59-50/ 

no.149 in 853 most played on radio/DJs - World Music Charts Europe - not bad for zero budget/promo/PR! ;)
http://www.giftmusic.de/wmce/2009/index.htm

|Nominated in 3 categories for recognising outstanding talent in World Music, Songlines World Music Awards 2009 - finalists out in April edition, final results out in May Live Review

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Posted on Tuesday 20 May 2008 - 06:27
Congratulations to the organizers of the 7th Ethiopian Music Festival, which was a resounding success and brought great sounds to Addis Abeba. The only show I caught, due to overload, was Dan Harper. His work is astounding, bringing together house/techno beats both slow and fast with beautiful Ethiopian singers singing traditional songs and melodies to ride over his beats. World fusion taken to another level and maybe another musical revolution in the making? Definitely a memorable night.

Radio Play

Extensive international play e.g. :

BBC World Service, BBC6Music, BBC3 Late Junction, BBC London, BBC Regional, Radio New Zealand (with interview), RRR Australia and too many to mention in the USA and Europe!  149 in 850 of top most played World Music Charts Europe 2009 (with no PR/Promo/Advertising/Budget)
 

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