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BRAVE MANU WORLD On La Radiolina, Chao brilliantly challenges the stereotypical view of ''world beat''
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Tom Sinclair
Tom Sinclair is a senior writer for EW and has been called "the handsomest man in rock criticism'' (by his wife)
If you think ''world beat'' is code for ''weird-sounding foreign music that has nothing to do with my life,'' Manu Chao's third solo CD, La Radiolina, just might turn your thinking around a full 180. Like the Clash circa Sandinista!, this France-bred artist is in top form here, catapulting easily from rock to reggae to rai and into genres as yet uncharted (check out the bizarro spaghetti-Western hoedown ''Besoin de la Lune''). And though he sings mostly in French or Spanish, Chao's music is so sonically vivid, so gloriously evocative, translation seems almost superfluous.
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Posted Aug 30, 2007
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