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"(...) Electronicised beats and clatterclaps cut across compulsive basslines, with the sawing, scaly-hide rabeca traditional fiddle ensuring a strong flavour of Recife's indigenous folking. Organ jabs, horn section punctuations and call-response vocals retain a local feel, at the same time as being generally groovesome in a globally expanded way. The extended gathering of featured singers mostly remain on the Portuguese setting, maintaining a varied approach over 12 songs. Wakaru includes a Japanese narration, while Shakespeare has Marion Del'Eite, a Frenchwoman residing in Rio, singing in her native tongue, and underlining a theme of jumbled citizenship. Is that accordion playing in the forro style, or as if sitting outside a Parisian café? Or is it emulating the melodica of Augustus Pablo? Indeed, dub reggae has a very strong influence on several of these tracks.Could Flying Horse be categorised as a surf-jungle-ska hybrid? Who cares, when DJ Dolores is successfully shaping his pan-cultural dancing patterns for maximum butt-quiverin' action?" (Martin Longley, www.bbc.co.uk)