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PETER MASON tunes his ear into the domestic affairs of a Carribbean couple with a troublesome son
Yazz Ahmed
La Saboteuse
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YAZZ AHMED'S new album La Saboteuse is astonishing in the scope of its collaborative unity and the power and beauty of the sounds it expresses.
They were brought together from 10 different locations over a decade and mixed by the brilliant sound engineer Tom Jenkins, audio supervisor for the London Olympics' opening and closing ceremonies.
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