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Nine albums by local artists that have gotten this year off to an exciting start By Stuart Munro, Hassan Ghanny, Karen Muller and A.Z. Madonna Globe correspondents and Globe Staff,Updated April 14, 2021, 1:54 p.m. Email to a Friend The présence Africaine within Boston’s music scene — from hip-hop to the Haitian underground — is nothing but enriched by Madagascar-born Niu Raza’s new offering, “Mm-hmm.” The Berklee College of Music alum keenly combines dancehall vibes and a pop structure with the textures of her native island country, including Malagasy lyrics and polyphonic vocal layers. To call the album “Afrobeats,” though, might collapse it too much. As Raza weaves a lyrical tapestry about home, heartbreak, and diasporic life throughout “Mm-hmm,” the listener is both put at ease and made to think that Raza is just getting started. Wherever and however her magnum opus blossoms, “Mm-hmm” is a beautifully intuitive deb

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