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		If politically-motivated, world-oriented dub is your bag, The Fire This Time's latest offering, Still Dancing on John Wayne's Head, would be a nice item to put in it. This time around the Canadian musical collective pools the talents of the likes of Asian Dub Foundation, Chuck D, Mad Professor and Lee 'Scratch' Perry (among others). Lyrics for two songs are derived from statements by exiled Black Panther activist Assata Shakur. Other musical contributions are made by the Eagleheart Singers, a recording of Brazilian Krikati Indian songs, and pygmy Hindehoos. TFTT represents an ecumenical wing of the dub camp, and their music is more about form and message than visceral groove. It's about subtlety -- drawing judiciously from a whole palette of related idioms rather than favoring a particular musical genre. Producing this kind of mélange is in fact intrinsic to TFTT's reason for being -- to facilitate musical collaboration between African and First Nation peoples. Still Dancing... offers a fine example of these ideals.
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The Fire This Time Still Dancing on John Wayne's Head Extreme CD
		Review by Noah Wane

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