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Bugge Wesseltoft's OK World After three solo albums ("IM", "Playing" and "Songs") and several remarkable (and utterly different) duo albums (including "Duo" with Henrik Schwarz and "Last Spring" with Henning Kraggerud), Bugge Wesseltoft returns with his first band since his legendary New Conception of Jazz. OK World features the exceptional talents of flamenco guitarist Josemi Carmona (Spain), multi-instrumentalist Shrikant Shriram (India/UK), percussionists Vivek Rajagopalan (India), Khaled Yassine (Lebanon), and Amadeu Cossa (Mozambique), and guest vocalists Martam Saleh (Egypt) and Georges Nehme (Lebanon), all musicians Bugge has met during his travels and tours around the world. With his growing fascination with the diverse musical cultures the world had to offer, it was inevitable that the temptation to go beyond occasional collaborations would be powerful enough to generate a band with members from across the world. The geographical and cultural diversity of OK World does not obscure the common elements in the different dialects of musical exchange. When listening to OK World, one becomes very aware of the synchronicity of the musicians. The key reason for this is its unforced nature: the music is organic, springing forth intuitively from the participants, each bringing themselves and their unique idioms and accents to the musical table. The album abounds with moments of surprise, moments of beauty, moments of whimsy, moments of gravity. The music of OK World is a ba
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OK World (feat. Bugge Wesseltoft, Josemi Carmona, Shrikant Shriram, Vivek Rajagopalan, Khaled Yassin & Amade Cossa)
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OK World (feat. Bugge Wesseltoft, Josemi Carmona, Shrikant Shriram, Vivek Rajagopalan, Khaled Yassin, Amade Cossa, Maryam Saleh & Georges Nehme)
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OK World (feat. Bugge Wesseltoft, Josemi Carmona, Shrikant Shriram, Vivek Rajagopalan, Khal
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Somewhere in Between
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OK World (feat. Bugge Wesseltoft, Josemi Carmona, Shrikant Shriram, Vivek Rajagopalan, Khale
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Ok World (feat. Shrikant Shriram, Vivek Rajagopalan, Khaled Yassin, Amade Cossa, Bugge Wesse
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OK World (feat. Bugge Wesseltoft, Josemi Carmona, Shrikant Shriram, Vivek Ra
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Ok World (feat. Shrikant Shriram, Vivek Rajagopalan, Khaled Yassin, Amade Cossa, Bugge Wesseltoft & Josemi Carmona)
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Ok World (feat. Shrikant Shriram, Vivek Rajagopalan, Khaled Yassin, Amade Cossa, Bugge Wess