Fantastic!
author: Emily Beste
Ertal Dawg gets right down to business as they rip into their opening song, Fote Ba, which explodes with energy. Applying the most attractive elements of West African music infused with Hip-Hop, House and at times Mona's honey-like vocals....
Ertal Dawg doesn't have a weak moment and sure as hell doesn't show any signs of slowing down.
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The must have CD of 2004!
author: John Loesch
This disc is phenomenal!! The way they blend musical styles is a testament to the quality of musicians in the group. It has been rockin’ my CD player constantly since I bought it and every friend I’ve shared it with has fallen in love with it too! Buy it! Heck, buy five and give them to your friends.
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author: Tamara Turner, CD Baby
Bleeding together drum 'n bass, hip hop, down tempo, chilled out electronica and house music, curled around thumping West African beats, a jazzy tangent and a genre-busting mindframe, Ertal Dawg's music gives the sensory impression of a mosaic of seemingly unrelated emotions and colors and statements that somehow find a common thread to hang onto. Where all these styles and influences meet is a beautifully jumbled conglomerate or collage, something like the aural equivalent of a kaleidoscope. This is keen abstract music that disengages the logical mind and stirs the fingerpainter in all.
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A smorgasbord of musical delight!
author: Sally Mullikin, England
This album is so completely bright and new. It stimulates the intellect with complex formations of sound. It soothes the soul with beautiful, intricate tunes and satisfies the bodily urge to get down with the powerful drumming tracks. And this middle-eastern dub bit? Definitely and absolutely very very sexy.
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