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and this is reflected in the mystery and beauty of its unbroken musical forms

His music reflected all the phases of Congolese pop music over four decades

Matt's trilling saxophone riff repeats throughout while cajon and handclaps add to the tight rhythmic structure

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The Rough Guide To Skip James Western Europe In the processUndoubtedly the most stylistically original and idiosyncratic of all the early Delta blues performers, Skip James accompanied his haunting falsetto vocals with a dazzling guitar picking style, creating his own brand of blues which was acutely distressing yet at the same time sublimely beautiful. With his use of the unorthodox open E minor (cross note) tuning, James laid down tracks such as Im So Glad, Devil Got My Woman and Hard Time Killin Floor