BURN IT

"Filastine takes styles, voices, and instruments from around the world and supports them with a laidback yet vigorous array of laptop beats and live percussion. Burn It is filled with the atmosphere of places around the world, and manages to stay free from generic "world music"tropes. This isn't the sound of musicians from different countries meeting in some antiseptic studio to "learn from each other." It's the sound of a vagabond, self-proclaimed "audio terrorist" traveling the world, meeting people where they live, and blending their backgrounds, their feelings, their personalities, their home environments in with his own. The result is occasionally intoxicating conversations between cultures, with beats, jittery and grounded, meeting a violin or a rhaita (a North African oboe-like instrument), and sitting right next to vocalists from Cuba and New Orleans and elsewhere. Burn It is a humanist sort of protest album, one based in the sounds and experiences people live with."