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Sharaab is certainly one of the stranger things I've heard lately. It's an original fusion of ideas, if not an entirely successful one. Bringing together a weird world music merging of reggae vocal grooves and Eastern desert vocal melodies, Sharaab - just by doing that - has veered off into its own path. But add to that an electronic gothic-industrial instrumental bed on which all of this unfolds, and the listener is definitely left to ponder what sort of strangeness he's gotten himself into. I can't say that I've ever heard anything quite like this, and there's a lot of creativity at work in the manifestation of this music. Overall, the genre mash-up is done well. I only object that there are occasional fleeting glimpses of the seams where the influences were sewn together and that - not being that much of a reggae fan (though it has its moments) - I probably would rather have had the kitchen sink than the reggae element in this goulash of styles and sounds. But the reggae is my own personal taste and the appearance of seams may be illusory simply for the fact that the combination of elements is so shocking it's hard not to take a moment here and there to ponder just what ingredients have gone into this - and at the moment of analysis, one is apt to see the separate pieces.-- review by Kristofer Upjohn
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