Mondomix Experience


    What better way to celebrate the Mondomix’ tenth anniversary than to release a four-CD anthology of our favourite music? Here are sixty songs from the four corners of the globe that sum up the philosophy that has driven this Paris-based company for the last decade: cross-border exchange, experimentation, audacity and youthful adventure. It is symbolised by the ever-fresh voice of Souad Massi, the Algerian singer who Mondomix helped integrate into the music community in France. Her success was crowned with a BBC World Music Award in 2006.

    The compilation is divided into four sections corresponding to the four crucial moments of the day: dawn, noon, evening and night. The moods of each CD thus vary from the contemplative to the wild-and-raunchy. Each one is introduced by a pithy saying such as “The stars in the sky will come to look at us. We will show them the moon itself. You and I.” (Rumi). Or: “It is in the dew of small things that the heart finds its morning and refreshes itself” (Khalil Gibran). It is difficult to resist the charm and variety of the selection conjured up by the Mondomix team. The music goes from Dona Rosa and Lee “Scratch” Perry to Pee Froiss and X Plastaz.

    The four CDs are offered for the price of one. As a result, Mondomix followers can relish an anthology that reflects the remarkable wealth of music it has helped to unearth in the past decade. “A voyage that Jules Vernes himself would not have imagined,” it proudly claims in the sleevenotes. Indeed, this non-linear odyssey underlines that, in this age of bling-bling MTV monoculture, the global village will never be reduced to a monolithic sound – especially with the quality of music offered up by the artists featured on this compilation.

April 22nd 2008


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