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Mauritian experimental producer Mo Kolours drops a grainy, found-footage video for "Banana Wine". The spliced vintage visuals span 1920s-50s scenes of ballroom dances, clips of "tribal natives", and an aptly chosen images of Carmen Miranda — the famed Brazilian samba singer that was pinholed as a banana queen by 30s American media. Watch the music video above and buy/stream Mo Kolours' EP2: Banana Wine out now.
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