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The Rough Guide To Hokum BluesHokum was a style showing a completely different side to the blues that was upbeat, salacious and light hearted. With its use of clever and suggestive innuendo, this risqu style was extremely popular in the late 1920s and early 1930s and its influence has remained part of the blues ever since. With its early minstrel show origins, hokum was a novelty style that showed a completely different side to the blues that was upbeat, salacious and light

syncopated dance music rooted in the New Orleans tradition

Etran Finatawa are sending out a powerful message

whereas their second track on this album

some contemporary Afro-Venezuelan grooves in a surf-psych jungle style from Amsterdam’s Conjunto Papa Upa

The balafon (xylophone) and the doundoun

Soprano Nathalie Leonoff is heard on 'Le Faiseur De Pluie Par Tous Les Temps'

drummer Paul Dreux Smith and bassist Senon Williams

amp Yacouba took the tapes to Paris where the legendary Nigerian drummer Tony Allen added his inimitably funky shuffle to the mixes

Here is a representative sample of the rich diversity – from country through folk to rock – of the music which has been used as a vital artistic medium to explore important issues ranging from land rights and the ‘stolen generations’ to colonial dispossession and racism

Though different the two instruments are historically linked: the ngoni

The bonus disc is a full album from accomplished sambista Ruivão

surely the finest Brazilian singer-songwriter that almost no-one's ever heard of

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