"Black Box", through its spectrum of deeply touching voices recorded specifically for the occasion or coming straight out of sampled old recordings is closer to some type of gripping inventory of this joyfully disillusioned complaint that never stops to nostalgically sing to paradise lost everywhere in the world.



From the work songs of black prisoners recorded by Alan Lomax in the 1930's to the timeless chant of a native American chaman by way of the joyous proto-rapping of Bo Diddley, the jabbing pain of a Serbian gipsy singer, the tongue-in-cheek creole of Haitian storytellers, the soft complaint of Cheikh Lo, or even the saudade of the great Angolan singer Bonga, the entire planet is singing all the different shades of blues through Repac's machines.