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Doa
A fronda dos cervos
More than thirty years after their debut the legendary progressive folk and traditional music ensemble presents a new album devoted entirely to medieval Galician lyrics. Three of the founders of the original group: Xoán Piñón, Xaquín Blanco and Bernardo Martinez form the band. Each is a talented and versatile artists with extensive experience in the fields of experimental music, photography, painting, drama and poetry. A new member has been added to the group for this occasion, the hurdy gurdy player Oscar Fernández, one of the most important figures of the new folk scene and founder of the groups Os Cempés and Bonovo. Lastly, the prestigious soprano, Susana de Lorenzo, rounds out the group with her impressive singing technique full of emotion and varied harmonies. Listen

Accordion Samurai
Accordion Samurai
Didier Laloy, Bruno Le Tron, Markku Lepistö, David Munnelly, and Riccardo Tesi: five of the world's great squeezebox players. They have all made a huge contribution to advancing the cause of the diatonic accordion, each in their own sphere: trad, folk, liscio, Irish music, jazz, film scores - the list goes on and on. In common with the characters pervading the imaginary universe of the Japanese, these players have succeeded in combining a variety of styles to create a bold and expressive musical experience. Ingeniously melodic, brilliantly tonal, an invitation to savour an intimate atmosphere or relish a session of wild dancing: these musicians with an impressive list of credentials offer us a spectacular and extremely beguiling event.

Rim Banna
April Blossoms
On Sale - Songs from Palestine dedicated to all the children is the subtitle of this unique recording by singer Rim Banna. Again joined by a phenomenal group of jazz and popular musicians from Norway and the middle east - and on some tracks a small chorus of children from both countries - she forges a powerful contemporary music focused on the trials and joys of live in Palestine.

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.

Andrew Cronshaw
The Unbroken Surface of Snow
British musician and composer Andrew Cronshaw is joined by a global enseble of Tigran Aleksanyan, Ian Blake, Sanna Kurki-Suonio.

Leilia
Consentimento
The first cantareiras, the teachers, the feminine force - with pristine voices mixed contemporary music, comes a unique sound with musical production and attention for details. More than 20 years working for the recovery of our musical tradition. ConSentimento is a tribute to all that women who made and continue to make creation the reality through preservation and transmission of the Galician oral tradition. With many thanks to Eva Castiñeiras, a singer, pandereteira, and a woman like so many anonymous women who seed our land with art, culture and beauty.

Mahsa and Marjan Vahdat
Songs From a Persian Garden
In May of 2007, 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

Maria Salgado
Abrecaminos
María Salgado returns to her Castillian roots, mixing them with Eastern and Sephardic elements and new compositions in a splendid work of delicate turns and elegant musical arrangements, embossed with the peacefulness of Bierzo.

SongJa Chee
Gayageum Sanzo
SongJa Chee (Gayageum) and Man Choi, (Buk). Sanzo (or sanjo) is a style of traditional Korean music, involving an instrumental solo accompanied by a single drum – either the Janggu, an hourglass-shaped drum or the Buk, a barrel drum covered in cowhide. Chee's reconstruction of the Song GeumYeon ryu Sanzo reveals a true masterpiece, expanding and extending the language of the traditional Sanzo with wide-ranging melodies and complex rhythmic patterns - a passionate summation of a life's work.

Daniele Sepe, Ensemble Micrologus, Und Rote Jazz Fraktion
Kronomakia
Neopolitan arranger, composer and saxophone player Sepe, joined by two ensembles, takes on the early music of Italy in his usual shocking style, seamlessly joining jazz, classical and early art music into a beautiful whole.

Solfrid Molland
Katedral for tapte drommer
On Katedral for tapte drømmer [Cathedral of Lost Dreams], the Norwegian accordionist is joined by some great names in Balkan music: Romanian hotshots Taraf de Haiduks, French-Russian gutarist Pascal de Loutcher and Gypsy singer Ionut Guluna.

Ferenc Kiss
Outlaws of the City -Nagyvárosi bujdosók
The Outlaws of the City is a thematic or as it is nowadays called a concept album. In the songs, lyrics and performance I used a lot from what I have learnt in the past 25 years about folk cultures, and the way we can use them today. The prosaic supplements, which I call texts that accompany the songs, cannot be sung, but they all relate, at some places closely, at others loosely, to the imagery of the songs. They make each other complete. They are about me, and my loved ones, and about those who can never be loved. Memories about my generation and the hiding. My childhood, and school, fears, the recognition and the fire, music and water, the respect of traditions and rebellion, landscapes and people, tales and travels, the myth and bureaucracy, duty and love, self destruction and attachments, home and the native land, the rustling of skirts, our fate, the child's eyes, the smell of books, the wings of freedom and of course happiness, joy, wine and dance, and the language of the Bible and the streets –