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| | World Music Network feature: Javier Ruibal (Site not responding. Last check: ) |
 | | Beyond this, Javier sings of and to women in a wider metaphorical sense, in order to express his love of life, using imagery sifted from African, Arabic and Caribbean landscapes and picaresque characters both real and imagined, to sing of life’s dreams, pleasures, romance, magic and heartbreak. |
 | | For example, someone wrote of Javier that his songs have ‘echoes and sounds reminiscent of very distant cultures of today, and very close ones in the ancient past’. |
 | | Javier writes that Contrabando – recorded near Tarifa in April 1997 and from which eight songs are taken – ‘was recorded with the light of the Straits [of Gibraltar] flooding in through the window of the studio, with Halley’s Comet passing by every evening to draw a close to the day’s sessions. |
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