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Message: [QUOTE="Hans Sprungfeld, post: 2849627, member: 181"] The linked stories that tell of Simon's transformative encounter with Heidi Berg's unlabeled African cassette is very much like when an acquaintance gave me two unmarked soukous cassettes in 1981 and told be they came from his parents who were Peace Corps workers in Tanzania. At the time, I had a record collection numbering >2500, and I had never heard anything like this music, but it was instantly some of my favorite music ever. My opinion has not altered over time. To this day, I don't know who it was, but it was in the vein of Kanda Bongo Man, Loketo, Nyboma, "Guitar Paradise of East Africa," and other compulsively joyous gems of Afro-Pop. For my tastes, the premier American multicultural musical collaborator has been Ry Cooder. [/QUOTE]