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| | Gigi: Illuminated Audio - PopMatters Music Review |
 | | Gigi's first album, which came out in 2001, was rather a masterpiece in its own way, with stirring songs in Amharic and an all-star cast brought together by producer Bill Laswell. |
 | | Gigi was a record by Gigi, but it was also a record by Laswell, and Dereje Makonnen, Henry Threadgill, Herbie Hancock, Karsh Kale, Amina Claudine Myers, Tony Cedras, Hamid Drake, and a whole bunch of other people from a lot of different places in the world. |
 | | There's still plenty of Gigi on this record: all the songs are hers, you can recognize the original melodies and grooves on every single "new" track, and many of the new tracks still have her vocals on them -- it's just that they are no longer the main focus of every single song. |
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