Dr John
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yeah alot of his stuff is a bit lame but that album i can get into, but apparently all the voodoo stuff was a put on, i'd like to hear this, this guy was supposed to be the genuine article
http://www.johncoulthart.com/feuilleton/2007/03/28/exuma-obeah-men-and-the-voodoo-groove/
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yah the real voodoo santeria groove came thru in peres prado and later of course in disco music salsoul etc...
jonny mugwump
exotic pylon
fake or not, twilight zone is propper out there craziness- maybe he attempted to fake so hard that he kind of moved into it anyway 
baboon2004
Darned cockwombles.
I really love Gris Gris.
Angola Anthem is great too, in a similar-ish vein.
Angola Anthem is great too, in a similar-ish vein.
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The Wire have an extract of this up now.
Read an extract from Two-Headed Doctor by David Toop - The Wire
In an exclusive extract from his new book, Two-Headed Doctor: Listening For Ghosts In Dr John’s Gris-Gris , David Toop follows anthropologist turned writer Zora Neale Hurston into the New Orleans of the late 1920s to sample the beliefs, tall tales and magical workings that comprise the...
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- A mask is not necessarily a physical object. Some masks are too powerful to be worn; some artefacts disguise the voice in various ways, by distortion, buzzing, muffling, but the transformed voice of a hidden person is the mask, not the physical device. A voice mask can also be produced by a sound that is not a voice. “The appearance of African masks, above all the face mask,” Hugo Zemp wrote in his notes to the Ocora LP, Masques Dan: Côte D’Ivoire, “is well known all over the world thanks to collections and books on African art; but their voices are much less familiar. The voice is, nevertheless, an essential part of the performance when the mask appears. True, mute masks exist; but there are others which are exclusively sound masks, ie they assume no visual disguise.”
One for @sus' voice thread too.
Voice
Terribly embarrassing but when lit profs talked about "voice" I never made the connection to the literal throat and tongue, it was always prose style in my head, silent read-it-to-yourself, more like tics and personality than intonation. And then listening to Pound read I realized he does this...
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