Review of M'bizo

I thought this groups last album, Selim Sivad, was their most african sounding, until I got this album. It's a pretty good example of jazz mixed with african elements including druming and chanting and it took about 3 years to make. The choral chants are very plesant, as on the track M'Bizo. They are repedative but that's how most african chants are anyway. It doesn't take away from the track at all though. What I like best about this disc is that the M'Bizo suite runs as one long track and the drum cross over from track Africa - Europe - Asia to Sizelapha is simply awesome. Mixes perfectly! There's this wierd garble sounding hand clapping thing that fades in on the track Africa - Europe - Asia at about the half way point. I thought this was so odd. How often do you hear a fade in of any instrument on a jazz album? The second thing I thought was that it was a skipping record scratching sound at first. Overall I think it's a wierd sound to have. It's neat but I wish it was without the hand clapping as sometimes it doesn't seem to be in rhythm. This is a good album and I highly recommend it your a fan of this group or african world music in general.