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The latest effort Bahia Mansa is involved in, Sonic dialogue #2, is cloudier and more dreary than the material that came before it. It finds him teaming up with French multidisciplinary creative Emmanuel Hourquet (aka EMHO) for a collection of 10 plaintive works. The artists split the difference here, but feel so spiritually intertwined that one might have trouble distinguishing whose contributions are whose without looking at the tracklist. From start to finish, this record evokes staring into the opaque haze of a crystal ball, searching for answers that only lead to increasingly intriguing questions in the process.

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