From the moment they first informally congregated at the third and final Real World Recording Week in 1995, it was clear that the group of European and West African musicians who would later answer to the name Afro Celt Sound System would become one of Real World’s totemic acts who embodied the label’s border-less, restriction-free ways. When originally released in 1996, Sound Magic was a revelation, one that spliced together music from different continents, different traditions, different times, without losing a thing in translation. “An eye-opening, uplifting, musically innovative creation, a real all-rounder full of perpetual surprise” – Hot Press