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Mario Lucios album Kreol tours seven countries and three continents, covering 92,482 kilometres to create its seventeen songs. It opens with the great a cappella pomp and ceremony of Na Capella, its traceries of almost religious vocals recorded in Praia, the capital of Cape Verde, and mixed in Rio de Janeiro, the melting-pot capital, while its brief, delicate Sahelian finale captures the sound of the African desert sung with accompaniment from Malian soukou (violin) player Zoumana Tereta. Mali has no sea, simply the privilege of roots, yet ‘Creoles are orphans in a way’, muses Mrio Lcio, his contention supported by those great elder statesmen Franz Fanon, Leopold Senghor and Aime Cesaire. Kreol is superbly thoughtful: it does not overturn existing forms, but remixes them.