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.
Luigi Cinque Tarantual Hypertext O'rchestra
Tangerine Café
fRoots says: 'definitely deep Mediterranean, even though it draws elements from further afield... staggeringly well integrated and arranged through all its different layers and levels... Wow!'
Canzoniere Grecanico Salentino
Focu d'amore
Regarded as Italy's leading and longest-standing traditional music ensemble, they come from the Salento, the heel of the Italian boot, in Puglia. The seven piece band and dancer are the leading a new wave of young performers that are re-inventing southern Italy's pizzica traditions for a modern audience, not by fusing it into a familiar dance beat, but by makig the old rhythms and melodies explode with contemporary energy for a new audience.
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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
A Banda Das Crechas
ABDC
Andrew Cronshaw writes in fRoots: 'For decades A Casa das Crechas at Via Sacra 3 in Santiago de Compostela has been the best known session-bar in Galicia's folk music revival, the most likely place to run into and play with musicians from Spain's green north-west and sometimes from abroad. On May 31st 2009 a bunch of those who were around of its long-time and more occasional denizens, some widely-known, some not, gathered there to record the music they like and has united them over the years. Played and sung with a nice balance of democratic directedness of arrangement and non-studio informality and on a shifting cast of instruments including fiddle, gaita, flutes, sax, accordion, guitar, banjolin and the exuberant rattle-patter of pandeireta, the material is mostly Galician – xota, muiñeira, pasodoble, marcha procesional, rumba, and songs including a spirited Meu Cabaliño and the Cuban-emigration song Unha Noite Na Eira Do Trigo - but also includes tunes that have drifted in from the rest of the European folk revival, from Sweden, Ireland and the Balkans, learnt from the likes of Väsen, JPP and Andy Irvine, and been enwrapped in a Galician embrace.'
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.
Minna Raskinen
Paljastuksia
Kantele is a silent instrument. Yet, I find it also powerful, and at times even dramatic. This is my first solo album and contains my own compositions for the Finnish concert kantele.The music is something I have experienced, feelings I have felt, joys and sorrows, journeys of exploration. That is why it is a part of me.- Minna Raskinen
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Bellón Maceiras Quinteto
Folkfusion
As the title Folkfusión implies, this is a fusion of Galician roots with rock and jazz elements. Still strongly rooted in acoustic sounds, the succeed quite often in lending a new vision to the old folk music. Bass, accordion, bagpipes and reeds offer both tradition and modern touches without ever going "disco" on you!
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 –
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