H3FK
Nubiska Natter
Mixing influences from the likes of John Coltrane and Anouar Brahem with their own unique style, this ensemble offers an unorthodox vision. The group started out as a double trio mixing modern jazz with Arabic folk music, but have now reached a point where the borders are blurred and the feeling is completely natural and original. The compositions are written for the whole ensemble, but also includes trio and quartet pieces, with elements of Arabic, Middle-Eastern, Gypsy and Swedish folk and pop.
Riccardo Tesi
PresenteRemoto
A full blown ensemble release by the master organetto player from Italy. A great ensemble that includes Stefano Bollani, Elena Ledda, Ginevra Di Marco, Gianmaria Testa, Daniele Sepe, Gavino Murgia, Patrick Vaillant, Gabriele Mirabassi and of course, Tesi's Banditaliana. Highly recommended, like everything Tesi does.
The Green Arrows
4-track Recording Sessions
The Green Arrows were an important part of the Zimbabwean music scene in the 1970s, fusing the different rhythms of the region into one unique sound. This compilation presents 20 critical tracks that the Green Arrows recorded from 1974 –1979, all well-remastered. Carefully prepared 24-page bookletincludes a complete history of the band (edited by Banning Eyre), a full detailed discography, and numerous rare photographs and artifacts. After a long absence from performance, the band reunited on stage on the last day of the Harare International Festival of the Arts (HIFA) on May 1, 2005.
Les Amazones de Guinee
Wamato
Les Amazones de Guinée are a unique and quite amazing institution within African music. Since the early 60s they have criss-crossed the continent, with only occasional forays beyond, to help bring their particular brand of joy to the cause of women's emancipation. Yet this is only their 2nd album, tight yet fluid, with the loping rhythms so particular to Guinea, bitter-sweet harmonies and vocals full of conviction. As the cry of "Retour en force des Amazones!" at the beginning of this album attests, these women demand to be heard. The Amazones are back with a vengeance. This is the gold-standard for female (or any other) bands in Africa and an enduring symbol of African women's emancipation. Highly recommended. Listen
Tenareze
Aral
The five musicians Tenarèze use the theme of water, one of the main political and humanitarian issues of the twenty-first century. With their original instruments (most of which they conceived of and built themselves) and songs sung in the Occitan language, they fly over the borders of imaginary lands to draw their own personal map of the world. Marc Anthony (electro-acoustic hurdy-gurdy), Laurent Rousseau (guitar), Alain Cadeillan (vocals, alboka, bagpipes and invented instruments), Olivier Hestin (percussion) and Bernard Subert (clarinet, bass clarinet, bagpipes and water-drums).
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iPercussonici
Tuttipari
The "marranzano", Sicilian for jew's harp is the core of this band from Catania. In this project there is all of Sicily, the ancient Trinacria and the modern island as different rhythms and instruments intertwine with the sound of an electrified jew's harp and the beat of primitive drums. Dum dum and didjeridoo become the drum n' bass for the syncopated, psychedelic raids of the electric jew's harp; tambourine and djembè create African-Sicilian rhythms, with the voice switching between sea and urban chants, serenade and ragamuffin. Sicily is celebrated and criticized with energy, involvement, collectivity and passion.
Sacha Silva
Anatomy of a Coup
An unusual ensemble mixes flamenco, Indian classical and modern music with heady questions of personal and political issues, music, as the band says, 'that reads the newspaper.' An original sound, adventurous but rooted in traditions from around the world, and not a hint of "world-beat' or 'world fusion.' Highly recommended
Masha and Marjan Vahdat
Songs From a Persian Garden
On 22 May this year KKV and two Western embassies arranged a remarkable concert. In a Persian garden in Tehran, the singers Mahsa and Marjan Vahdat broke the ban on public performances by women. The two sisters were accompanied by Knut Reiersrud and five other Norwegian and Iranian musicians
Mattias Perez Trio
MP3
With focus on Swedish traditional music and a great interest in making own arrangements and composing new music, MP3 was founded three years ago. The group has performed together in many different concerts and dance events around Sweden and abroad, offereing vibrant music played with a lot of joy as well as expertise. The musicians: Mattias Pérez - guitar, 12-sting guitar, mandola, mouth-harp (Jew's harp); Mia Gustafsson - violin, voice; Nina Anderberg - violin
Balla Et Ses Balladins
Authenticité: The Syliphone Years
2 CD collection by one of Guinea's most interesting and influencial bands. Listen
Yggdrasil
Live in Rudolstadt
Recorded at various 2003 concerts Kristian Blak and Yggdrasil focus on original compositions Blak and interpretations of folk material from the North Atlantic: Faroese ballads, hymns, rhymes, Inuit songs, Shetland tunes and their own blend of ethno-world interpretations with a definitive jazz edge. Features the wonderful vocalist Eivor Palisdottir.
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Rail Band w/Salif Keita and Mory Kanté
Volume 2: Mansa
Stern's Rail Band retrospective (compiled by Ibrahima Sylla) includes recordings from the 14-year span of 1970 to1983. Volume 2: Mansa includes five tracks with Salif Keita, five with Mory Kanté (including the title track, a 12-minute epic recorded in 1975), and eight others featuring singers Magan Ganessy or Djelimady Sissoko.
Luftstrak
Siska
Maria Kalaniemi, Sven Ahlbäck and Johan Hedin are Luftstråk, a trio of violin, nyckelharpa and accordion that explores their Swedish and Finnish traditions to make new and creative music.
Andy Palacio and the Garifuna Collective
Watina
Belize music star Palacio's first US release is an all-star affair that shows off the diversity of Central America's Garifuna culture in a contemporary tour-de-force of melody and rhythm. Each track on Wátina is based on a traditional Garifuna rhythm and all of the lyrics are in the Garifuna language.
Riccardo Tesi
Accordeon Diatonique
The master of Italian accordion offers a completely solo recording that shows the breadth and depth of his skills, talents and interests in the music of the instrument. Highly recommended
Jonas Knutsson and Horn Please
Horn Please!
Swedish folk and horn music on six saxophones, bass and percussion.Led by saxophonist/composer/arranger Jonas Knutsson, some of the prominent younger Swedish folk musicians are presented in music that goes from the traditional to the newly composed, and from the strictly arranged to the wildly improvised. The horn players: Alexandra Särström, Å sa Johansson, Hanna Wiskari, Klas Toresson, Daniel Carlsson; plus Bengt Jonasson and Petter Berndalen on bass and percussion. Compositions by Knutsson and traditional music from different parts of Sweden and South India. Highly recommended
Dazibao
E40
The second release by this wonderful Belgian ensemble will surely garner as much acclaim as their previous CD, Alma. The diatonic accordions of Sophie Cavez and Jonathan de Neck are still in the forefront, musically and compositionally, but this 2007 release offers a more confident ensemble sound, a little richer in jazz roots while still solidly enthralled the folk roots of their region. Exceptional music from an exceptional ensemble, once again.
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Douga Mansa - Mamadou Diabate
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His reputation as a kora virtuoso and tradition-based musical maverick is well known. In Diabate’s hands, the kora proves capable of infinite variation, encompassing delicately articulated structures, swirling eddies of glissandi, pounding, vertical rhythms and roaring cataracts of arpeggio. On the opening track, an astounding range of simultaneous yet syncopated melodies and rhythms join and separate in a complex clarity that amazes. The 12 selections that follow are all equal to that moment,, showing a rich tradition that lives on in the hands of a master.
Akh Issudar - Terakraft
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Malian Touoareg ensemble's keening, scratchy singing veers off onto curvy, Islamic-flavored tangents and passages of “talking blues,” discursive chanting, and raucous call-and-response, punctuated by wailing, cries, ululations and even an underlying, buzzing drone. The multi-layered guitars fulfil the image with their rich, sensually tinny chords and lead riffs. They might evoke the Mississippi Delta at high noon, T Rex and the early Stones, and certainly the late Ali Farka Touré, but they are unique and stand apart. This is potent music of the 'desert blues' variety, and highly recommended.
Låter fra Selsø - Selsolater
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New traditional folk music, originating from the bank of Selsø Lake, west of Copenhagen, Denmark. Svend Erik Pedersen is inspired by the beautiful nature surrounding thearea. The changing colors during the day and throughout the year, as well as the constant sounds from the rich bird life in the lake area, are great sources of inspiration. In Selsølåter the modern and traditional tunes from Danish, Nordic and Irish folk music meet and intertwine.Frankly all good tunes and fiddlers mature by heart. The band members of Selsølåter are all connected to Lirum Larum and the very traditional and living folk music region of Roskilde. Fiddler, mandolinist and composer Pedersen is joine di the band by an group of great violins, , guitar, bass, organ and percussion.
Yderland - Carl Erik Lundgaard
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Danish diatonic accordionist joined by a wide ranging ensemble of tradtional and modern musicians including Harald Haugaard, Mads Riishede, Christoffer S. Møller and many others. Yderland consists of primarily new material from accordionist Carl Erik Lundgaard, arranged and produced in cooperation with bassist Mads Riishede. The music is expressive, and has stories to tell, both serious and humorous.
Baltic Crossing - Baltic Crossing
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Baltic Crossing use their strong affinity for old dance music and respect for each others traditions to bring a new youthful energy to the folk music of Europe. Wherever they meet, at least one has to cross the Baltic Sea. The ensemble is Kristian Bugge (DK) on violin; Antti Jarvela (FI) on acocustic bass, mandolin, banjo; Esko Jarvela (FI) on violin, viola; Andy May (UK) on Northumbrian and Uilleann pipes and piano and Ian Stephenson (UK) on guitar, melodeon.
Ana Hina - Natacha Atlas and Mazeeka Ensemble
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Singer Natacha Atlas has made her most traditional Arabic recording to date, as acoustic approach that is in direct opposition to her electronic interpretations of Middle Eastern and North African music that are her trademark. Using an ensemble of strings, ney flute, oud, percussion and horns, and Egyptian Gamal Al Kordy on accordion, she pays hommage to a 'golden age' sound from the 50s or 60s in songs both old and new, Arabic and not. The do a stunning English ballad, "Black Is The Colour" with a jazzy, smooth voice, piano and strings arrangement. A Frida Kahlo poem is sung in Spanish in duet with with Clara Sanabras on ukulele. This is a warm, remarkably cohesive and uttlerly charming recording that really gets not only to the root of the music, but to the essentials of a great singer's voice. Highly recommended.
Città Sottili - InChanto
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The members of InChanto share a common passion for ancient and traditional music, developing a personal repertoire, inspired by their place of origin: Tuscany, a deeply rooted, culture, and also a land receptive to other cultures that have been absorbed and interwoven into the Tuscan sensibility. These songs do not come from formal research or philosophy, but from the desire to offer original music, rooted both in European folk, and in the musical and literary culture of the Italian Renaissance. This 'alchemic sound,' strained through a Mediterranean sensitivity, evokes atmospheres balanced between old and modern, popular and cultured, in which the texts, composed in various languages or inspired by medieval lyrics, are very important.
L'essential - Pamelo Mounk’a
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Volume one of a three CD series by the great Congolese artist. An friend and occasional colleague of Rochereau, Mounk’a (who died in 1996) was a key member of Les Bantous de la Capitale from the 60s into the 80s. However, a major part of his musical legacy was the series of albums he recorded with a small group in Paris in the late 70s and early 80s. Produced by Eddy Gustave and featuring singer Lea Lignazi, guitarist Master Mwana Congo, bass player Pablo Lubadika and drummer Domingo Salsero, these albums epitomized the international style of soukous in the years when it was an innovative yet irresistible new genre. Now Syllart has compiled the best of his Paris sessions in three albums. Listen
L'indispensable - Pamelo Mounk’a
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Volume two of a three CD series by the great Congolese artist. An friend and occasional colleague of Rochereau, Mounk’a (who died in 1996) was a key member of Les Bantous de la Capitale from the 60s into the 80s. However, a major part of his musical legacy was the series of albums he recorded with a small group in Paris in the late 70s and early 80s. Produced by Eddy Gustave and featuring singer Lea Lignazi, guitarist Master Mwana Congo, bass player Pablo Lubadika and drummer Domingo Salsero, these albums epitomized the international style of soukous in the years when it was an innovative yet irresistible new genre. Now Syllart has compiled the best of his Paris sessions in three albums. Listen
L'incontournable - Pamelo Mounk’a
- 21.99
Volume three of a three CD series by the great Congolese artist. An friend and occasional colleague of Rochereau, Mounk’a (who died in 1996) was a key member of Les Bantous de la Capitale from the 60s into the 80s. However, a major part of his musical legacy was the series of albums he recorded with a small group in Paris in the late 70s and early 80s. Produced by Eddy Gustave and featuring singer Lea Lignazi, guitarist Master Mwana Congo, bass player Pablo Lubadika and drummer Domingo Salsero, these albums epitomized the international style of soukous in the years when it was an innovative yet irresistible new genre. Now Syllart has compiled the best of his Paris sessions in three albums. Listen
All three Paris sessions CDs for a special price - Pamelo Mounk’a
- 60.49
All three of the three CD series by the great Congolese artist at a special price.
Silent City - Kayhan Kalhor and Brooklyn Rider
- 18.99
Kayhan Kalhor has performed and recorded with Iran's greatest singers and instrumentalists and toured the world as a soloist. He co-founded the Dastan, Ghazal and Masters of Persian Music ensembles and has appeared with the New York Philharmonic, the Orchestre National de Lyon, and others. In addition to his work as a performer, Kalhor's compositions have been used for various television and film projects. He is also is an original member of Yo-Yo Ma's Silk Road Project and his works are heard on all of the Ensemble's albums. Three of his recordings, including his two previous World Village releases, Faryad and Without You, were nominated for Grammy® Awards. The innovative, genre-bending string quartet Brooklyn Rider (Johnny Gandelsman and Colin Jacobsen, violins, Nicholas Cords, viola and Eric Jacobsen, cello), is named for the members' beloved New York borough and Der Blaue Reiter (The Blue Rider) — a German expressionist movement that flourished during the early twentieth century. The quartet has been challenging and delighting audiences ever since its inception by dividing its time between exploring traditional classical repertoire, new music and fervently adventurous intercultural explorations. Aside from their affiliation with Yo-Yo Ma's Silk Road Project, Brooklyn Rider has worked with composers such as Chen Yi and Kayhan Kalhor and performers such as violinist Jenny Scheinman and visual artist Kevork Mourad.
Sentimental Streak - Catherine Russell
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A collection of songs that hightlight this jazz singers vocal range. 14 tracks of jazz, blues and torch songs recorded at Levon Helm Studios by producer Larry Campbell (who has recorded Dylan, Elvis Costello, Willie Nelson, and Abbey Lincoln and adds his own mandolin, guitar, resonator guitar, violin, and pedal steel). Matt Munisteri on guitar and banjo, Lee Hudson on acoustic bass, and Larry Ham or Mark Shane on piano with guest musicians include Byron Isaacs of Ollabelle on acoustic bass, Rachelle Garniez on accordion, James Wormworth on drums, Howard Johnson on tuba, and from the Levon Helm Band, Steven Bernstein on trumpet, cornet, and slide trumpet, Erik Lawrence on saxophones, and Brian Mitchell on piano.
Vestida de Vida - Susana Baca
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Susana Baca is from a coastal fishing village near Lima, Peru. A performer as well as a researcher, in her music she blends traditional forms with contemporary sounds, backed by a band which features such indigenous Peruvian instruments as the cajón ("wooden box"), guapeo (clay pot), and quijada (jawbone of a donkey), alongside acoustic guitar and double bass. Set to lyrics by some of Latin America's premier poets, her songs are rich with evocative imagery and deeply felt, sung in a voice that is delicate yet soulful.
Gnawa - Home Songs - VA
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The village of Tamesloht is a holy place in the arid lands south of Marrakech. Between the call to prayer and the humming of insects, its sound universe is inhabited by sub-Saharan Africa and age-old migrations. Gnawa Home Songs shines the spotlight on a number of exceptional soloists - stirring vocalists or virtuoso players of the three-stringed guembri lute. Listen in as the old masters Hamid Kasri and Amida Boussou join forces with young stars such as Hassan Boussou, founder of the band Séwaryé. Beautifully packaged as a small hard cover book, this is a unique document of an extraordinary living tradition.
Princes Amongst Men - VA
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New Zealand writer Garth Cartwright's 2005 book of the same name explored the music and the culture of the Roma communities surviving in the Balkan countries of Serbia, Macedonia, Romania and Bulgaria. Tracking down much of the music mentioned in the book (which "reads like a road movie," in the opinion of Mojo) had been difficult - until now. Here is a generous sampler that illuminates the genius of Gypsy music in the Balkans. This who-is-who of Roma musicians includes Taraf de Haidouks, Boban Markovi?, Fanfare Ciocarlia, Toni Iordache, Ko?ani Orkestar, and the inimitable Esma Redžepova, along with a host of unfamiliar voices awaiting discovery. (Most tracks have been previously released)
Dreams Of Breathing Underwater - Eliza Carthy
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An set of original pop tunes from the English roots star is political, witty and lyrical. With guests John Spiers, Jon Boden, Ben Ivitsky, Willie Molleson, Martin Green, Eddie Reader, Tim Matthew, others. Presented in trifold digipak, with 16-page color booklet, including full lyrics. Highly recommended
Samjanitha - U. Shrinivas
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Electric mandolin in classical and modern Indian style, featuring guest John McLaughlin.
Authentic Rare Bluegrass: Independent Label Sides 1951-54 - VA
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4 CDs, 100-cut collection of artists who recorded for smaller labels such as Mutual, Blue Ridge, among others. Featuring Wade Mainer and The Mountaineers, Bill Clifton and his Dixie Mountain Boys, Larry Richardson and Happy Smith, Jim Eanes and His Shenandoah Valley Boys, others.
Little Walter and The Kings Of The Blues Harmonica: Blowin' and Suckin' - VA
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4 CD, comprehensive set of early harmonica masters, presented in both solo and accompanied settings. Featuring a whole slew of harp greats such as Sonny Boy Williamson, Sonny Terry, Billy Boy Arnold, Walter Horton, Slim Harpo, Junior Wells, others - with 2 whole CDs spotlighting the genius of Little Walter. 108 cuts, including "Decoration Blues," "I Wish You Would," "I'm A King Bee," "Hoodoo Man," "Boom, Boom, Out Go The Lights," "Mellow Down Easy," more.
Uccelli - Teatro Settimo
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The soundtrack of the theatre version of Aristophanes' "The Birds" presented at the Spoleto Festival in June 1996 as performed by Banda Osiris, Aringa & Verdurini, Paolo Pizzimenti, Anna Coppola and many other singers and musicians from the Italian music world.
Ahnaria - Elisa Vellia
- 18.99
Greek singer-songwriter Elisa Vellia Vellia left Athens for London at the age of 21, where she discovered the singular beauty of the Celtic harp. She devoted herself to mastering this instrument, working with some of the major figures in the world of the Irish and Scottish harp. This musical passion eventually led her to Brittany, where she found the ideal place for her own music: that of a cultural identity without borders. Her unique voice and playing evoke the entire range of cultures clustered around the fascinating and mysterious sea that is the Mediterranean. The booklet includes complete song texts and English translations.
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