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Pinnin Pojat - Gogo 4 - $18.99
(cdRoots# amigo-pinnin)
Arto Jarvela and Kimmo Pohjonen offer a curious series of duets that are at once folky and bizarre, for accordion, harmonica, fiddle, mandolin, nyckleharpa, voices and various unexpected instruments. Kip Peltoniemi offers guest vocals on his Minnesota Tango.

Liliana Barrios - Epica - $18.99
(cdRoots# hm-wv498036)
Epica is a tribute to the brothers Virgilio Exposito (1924-1997) and Homero Exposito (1918-1987), two of the most important creative artists of Argentinean music. The Expósito brothers were born in Zarate, on the banks of Paraná river - a very important city in the development of tango. They created thousands of tango songs, many of them becoming standards. On this new recording, Liliana Barrios covers tango, milonga, candombé and bolero, and she is accompanied by some of the most important Argentine tango players.

Pjotr Leschenko - 1935 - Tangos, Foxtrots and Romances - $18.99
(cdRoots# rien-06)
From the pages of fRoots: "Pjotr Leschenko's story is complex and tragically fascinating. Russian by birth, he achieved immense popularity in the 1930s and was known as "The Russian King Of The Tango". He toured the old Ottoman Empire extensively, was a resident in Berlin during the Weimar Republic days, played Paris, Vienna, Riga and London, ran his own club in Bucharest, spent the war performing for the Romanian military, was arrested, on stage, by Stalin's regime and died in a Bucharest prison camp at the age of 56. As a motif of his internationalism, the first track here is a tango sung in Russian, recorded in London, featuring a blistering Hawaiian guitar solo. This programme of tangos, romances and fox trots (with some hot playing from what are probably English dance band musicians), displays Leschenko's talents both as a guitarist and as a singer of great warmth of emotion. Some of the stuff here, especially the romances, could honestly be filed under 'Curate's Egg' and will not be to everyone's taste, but just about half the tracks are tangos, recorded in both London and Riga during 1935, and are lovely. The mastering is excellent, although the Riga recordings suffer from poor original engineering and are a little distant and noisy. The notes, in French, German and English are succinct, factual and include a superb vintage photograph of the artist, while the overall packaging is the most handsome I've seen in some time."

Anabel Santiago - Desnuda - $17.99
(cdRoots# gal-nube1008)
La tonada, the traditional Asturian vocal music, translated to the 21st century. With the same impressive intensity as the legendary singers of that ancestral style, Anabel Santiago creates new musical settings in which her unique voice unfolds: from contemporary rock, pop and folk sounds to surprising cover versions of La Chicana and Johnny Cash: if Janis Joplin were Asturiana, she would probably sound like that. Her latest album strips off conventions and opens up her music to other styles like tango or country music (like Johnny Cash´s "Folsom Prison Blues"). A unique songer with a special approach to her music.

la Chicana - tango agazapado - $17.99
(cdRoots# gal-agaz)
I have been thoroughly captivated by this Argentine band that has created its own dark, expressive version of contemporary tango, with a rich European sound, traces of traditional folk from Argentina and Uruguay, a bit of flamenco, and a youthful bad attitude. Fronted by one of the great husky voices of South America, Dolores Solá. Go listen.

Svang - Sväng - $17.99
(cdRoots# aito-svang)
Sväng offers a fresh and unusual take on Finnish folk and popular styles like the tango, and on Balkan, Swedish and completely original folk music, by using only the mouth harp, the harmonica, in forms small and large, the chromatic, diatonic, harmonetta and bass. The members of the ensemble are all well respected in various musical worlds in Finland. The music runs the gamut from moody to raucous, from the sumblime to the comical, from the subtle to the outright jaunty.

Katzen Kapell - Katzen Kapell - $17.99
(cdRoots# cda-tm24)
Katzen Kapell say they have invented a musical style of their own, in an unusual combination of instruments certainly creates an original sound. The band is Catharina Backman on accordion and vocals; Eva Lindal on violin, Magnus Andersson on Wurlitzer organ, keyboards and vocals; Kjell Nordeson plays marimba and vibraphone, Lasse Lundbom on drums and percussion and Gustaf Hielm does bass. (Originally released in 1994)

Fernando Otero - Vital - $16.99
(cdRoots# hm-wv468094)
Argentine pianist, composer and bandleader Fernando Otero’s new album for World Village, Vital, is a meditative yet emotionally refractive set of eleven modern chamber music pieces, redolent of new-style tango, twentieth century atonality, sharp-edged downtown jazz, and other sounds Otero picked up at home and on his travels. The opening duet for piano and violin, "Nocturno," is a limping waltz that appears to depict an insomniac’s midnight musings; it leads seamlessly into two succeeding yet unrelated movements. "Siderata," scored for six players including a bandonéon, Argentina’s emblematic squeezebox, is an exercise in stillness, like the uneasy peace that so often precedes a difficult decision. "La Abundancia," another duet, is roundly, ripely melodic; but the wryly titled "Reforma Mental" is scored for eight players and from its opening keyboard arpeggios, depicts a dialogue between voices in conflict, with scampering piano runs periodically overwhelmed by groaning, overbearing horns. Between them, the violin and bandonéon achieve a small universe of sonic color on "Noche Illuminata," while "Fin de Revision" contradicts its title by continuing to mutate and evolve until the final, wheezing exhalation. Listen

Kottarashky - Opa Hey! - $18.99
(cdRoots# hm-atr2609)
Kottarashky is a 21st century digital master musician with his hands sunk deep in the past - vintage Balkan field recordings, classic jazz and blues, psychedelic sounds, club beats and extraordinary, archetypal Gypsy voices, guttural shouts and lyrical laments are all molded and thrown into new shapes. The songs of his debut album “Opa Hey!” sound like tales told by a people who have all the time in the world: time to contemplate, enjoy, engage and dream; to take pleasure in unexpected twists and turns; to be inspired by the details and vividness of marginal existence. Kottarashky is an architect by vocation, which perhaps explains the palpable sense of place in his music. Summer trips to small villages and the marginal regions of Bulgaria were key source of inspiration for the album, and his music samples a broad palette of sources and influences - enigmatic field recordings by artists unknown alongside Boris Kovac, Les Yeux Noir, Fanfare Ciocarlia, Jony Iliev and compelling Hungarian singer Mitsou. The resulting digital pick-and-mix hits you like a panoramic puzzle of sounds collected and put together from a night's walk through the streets of Sofia. It is an ethno-music born of a city lacking cultural identity that is torn between contemporary European globalism, Balkan provincialism and a living if largely forgotten folk tradition. It's a music inspired by that environment but also in reaction to it, a journey down roads less travelled, through the Bulgarian backwoods and back via the laptop to the 21st century. Listen!

6 Australes - Eclipse: Nuevas canciones de Buenos Aires - $18.99
(cdRoots# rien-68)
The music of 6 Australes has its roots in the Río de la Plata region, but emerged in Berlin; composed and performed by Argentinean and German musicians, brought together by the Tango. Musically they go beyond Tango, opening up to various forms of Latin-American music as for instance Milonga, Zamba, Chacarera, Bossa Nova or Candombe. Out of this joining they create their own distinctive style, that merges melodic passion with rhythmic diversity and - together with the poetic power of Sergio Gobi's lyrics - enriches the tradition of Spanish-American song.

Karsten Troyke - Dus Gezang fun mayn harts - $18.99
(cdRoots# rien-59)
Singer and indefatigable promoter of Yiddish language and culture in his home town Berlin, Karsten Troyke does not care so much about where the tango originally comes from. His distinctive style refers to the Jewish theatre and cabaret song of the Twenties and early Thirties just as to the renaissance of the Yiddish 'Schlager' ofn the Fifties, and after all his art has that brightness you will not find while searching it. He is accompanied by Trio SCHO (Gennadi Dessiatnik, violin, backing vocals; Valeri Khoryshman, accordion; Michael Jach, double bass and guest musician Jan Hermerschmidt on clarinet.

various - Old World Tangos Vol. 3: Polskie Tango 1929-39 - $18.99
(cdRoots# rien-55)
22 tracks of classic tangos from pre-war Poland.

various - Echoes from Afar - Old World Tangos Vol.1 - $18.99
(cdRoots# rien-20)
A look at how the tango affected the world's music in a series of early performances from Rumania (Jean Moscopol, Titi Botez); Turkey (Seyyan Hanim, Ibrahim Özgür); Russia (Pjotr Leschenko); Greece (Sofia Vembo); Egypt (Farid El Atrache) and Algeria (Lili Boniche).

Fotefar and Håvard Lund - Fest - $18.99
(cdRoots# kkv-346)
FEST is the first CD from the folk trio Fotefar (Footprints) and clarinet player Håvard Lund. The trio is Lena Jinnegren, Bendik Lund Haanshus and Ragnhild Furebotten. Lena, from Sweden, has deep roots in rock, folk music and folk ballads. Ragnhild was nominated for the same award in 2008 for her solo CD "Endelig vals" (Finally a waltz). Bendik trained at the music conservatory in Trondheim, and plays in the group KADO and the tango music band Orangutango. Håvard is artist in residence for the cultural centre in Troms county, and now has a permanent position there as a musician, composer and arranger. He has played with the band Farmers Market, with Frode Fjellheim of Transjoik and collaborated with Trygve Seim.

Mahala Rai Banda - Ghetto Blasters - $17.99
(cdRoots# hm-atr2509)
A Balkan equivalent of the Memphis Horns with a kicking rhythm section combines power and finesse, groove and virtuosity. The musicians from Clejani form a taraf that is hot as coals. Guest singers such Sorin Constantin, Jony Iliev and Dan Armeanca, the king of the manea add an extra spice.

Las Chicas del Tango - La Voz Feminina - $10.99
(cdRoots# tex-125)
tango music from Finland

Fanfare Ciocarlia - Gyspy Brass Legends (PAL-DVD) - $16.99
(cdRoots# yy-fanfaredvd)
The Story of the Band' includes a one hour concert in Berlin, the one hour documentary film "Iag Bari" plus various other text and grpahic goodies

Chango Spasiuk - Pynandí (Los Descalzos) - $12.99
(cdRoots# hm-wv468083)
Argentinean accordion virtuoso and composer's 2009 release is Pynandí -- Los Descalzos (Barefoot, from an indigenous Guaraní word, referring to the rural poor) Like American blues, Portuguese fado and Argentina's own tango, the sunny, lilting chamamé was at one time considered too lower-class to be of interest to educated listeners. This recordin is a love letter to the land of Spasiuk's birth, capturing the red earth, blinding heat, rough good humor and warm fellowship of laborers heading out for an evening's fun. But while cheerful on the surface, it also harbors edgy moments of dissonance. Suite Nordeste opens with an accordion astride a staggering percussion motif. Guitars, fiddle and other instruments fight to create luchness and roughness, always seeking a contradiction of some kind. Spasiuk engenders the best of the tradition, then tosses it into his own unique mix. Listen

Zenobia - Midnat - $16.99
(cdRoots# go-1208)
Zenobia is a Danish folktrio that plays well-known Danish folksongs and original compositions. With varied backgrounds in folk, jazz, popular song, Argentine tango, the trio of Louise Støjberg - vocal; Mette Kathrine Jensen - accordion; and Charlotte Støjberg - piano offer a unique and subtle new music.

Renato Borghetti - Fandango! - $17.99
(cdRoots# rd-8147)
Accordionist Borghetti is a local superstar in Rio Grande do Sul in Southern Brazil. The musicial gaúcho has revised, adapted and modernized the regional music. he combines the sounds of the Argentinian pampa with central European, Italian and French elements into a modern mix of milonga, polka, TexMex and musette with Brazilian and global pop, jazz and tango, adapting each of those forms to his accordion. Artful, elegant and full of energy!

Gabriela Torres - No Tan Distinta - $18.99
(cdRoots# hm-wv498031)
Argentinean singer, composer and guitarist Gabriela Torres travels naturally from tango, milonga, bossa nova to Rio de la Plata rhythms. This unique mix results in a style with a personality of its own and a deep sense of rhythmic fusion. She is joined by Lito Vitale (a fixture on all of her albums), Juan Subirá and Pepe Céspedes for the song "Está Apunao" and Kevin Johansen, with whom she sings the last track of the album, "Panadero." Other featured contributors include Mati Cella, Fernando Mántaras, Luciano Vitale, Juan Buonuome, Martín González, Pablo Guerra, Dorita Chávez, Pol Neiman, Javi Viña, Mariela Mendez Christie and Omar Ramirez. Listen

Viamedina - Via medina - $14.99
(cdRoots# fce-viamedina)
Via Medina is a street near the port in Naples, a borderline between the city and the sea, a meeting-point of different cultures and people. Once, in the nearby alleys, there were a few nightclubs where tangos and tarantellas, blues and tammurriate, jazz and popular Neapolitan songs were played and mixed together. Now that the clubs are gone, the Via Medina gets new life in this musical project. Starting from the dialect, melodies and instruments of the Neapolitan tradition, Viamedina takes various roads to give new perspectives to an already rich heritage of ancient memories.

Michio - Zambúllete - $16.99
(cdRoots# gal-zamb)
The true globalista: a guitarist born in Germany of Japanese ancestry presents bulerías, tangos and soleás (with vocals on some songs by Alicia Carrasco). The pedigree is surprising, the music is wonderful.

Tango Trio Skanstull - Tango Trio Skanstull - $17.99
(cdRoots# cda-skanstull)
The Swedish bandoneon virtuoso Mikael Augustsson, together with the Argentine tango musicians Juan Esteban Cuacci, piano, and Lila Horovitz, bass present original works and those of masters like Astor Piazzolla. Together the trio takes a new look at tango - and the result is a musical meeting where you get moved as well as amused! They deeply understand and care about the essence of tango - but they never hesitates to explore and develop it.

ErsatzMusika - Songs Unrecantable - $18.99
(cdRoots# hm-atr2209)
In their second release, still fronted by the voice of artist and singer Irina Doubrovskaja, and people by a half dozen Soviet émigrés who escaped the turmoil of Russia following the end of Cold War for the artistic communes of East Berlin, ErsatzMusika are the ghost in the machine of 21st century music, a rootsy, Russian urban folk, edgy and ripe for this dark new age.

KAL - Radio Romanista - $18.99
(cdRoots# hm-atr2009)
Band leader Dragan Ristic says of their new project: "We went from being this tiny Belgrade band to touring Europe and the US, hearing DJs blast our music in clubs, playing festivals, getting to spread the word and music of the Roma. What you get here is our live sound. We spend a lot of time touring and playing clubs along the Danube, bars that put on live music. This has really shaped our sound, it's Rock'n'roma! I strongly believe this album leads a new wave of Gypsy music." Serbian rapper Marcelo cameos with the band on the first track.

Trio Contempo - Live au Folkclub (ES5321) - $14.99
(cdRoots# fce-contempo)
The powerful sensuality of tango mixed to the fascination of a female trio with accordeon, guitar and cello. Recorded at the well known club in Turin, this is the first live album for this young but very skilled ensemble, interpreting the repertoire of Astor Piazzolla.

Domenico Torta e I Musicanti di Riva presso Chieri - Saré l'uss e buté fòra 'l gat! - $14.99
(cdRoots# fce-5367)
Following over ten years of activity, here it is at last their maiden-voyage CD: the fruit of one of the most creative Italian folk group astride music and drama well seasoned with humour. Marcette, one-step, fox-trot, waltz, mazurka, polka, brando, curenta, beguine, tango, and popular tunes from the flourishing Italian tradition alternate in a most longed for CD. Leaded by histrionic Domenico "Tasché" Torta, the eight multi-instrument Musicanti are able to studio reproduce the same cheerful but keen atmosphere of their live performances.

Gabi Lunca - Sounds from a Bygone Age Vol.5 - $18.99
(cdRoots# hm-atr1508)
Unlike her contemporaries who died prematurely (Romica Puceanu, Toni Iordache and Dona Dumitru Siminica), Gabi Lunca is a living legend from the golden age of Romanian Gypsy music. Lunca's career began in the mid-1950s. The last surviving diva of the Lautari scene, she turned 70 in 2008. With this latest volume in the Sounds From A Bygone Age series, you have the chance to rediscover her classic 1960 and '70s recordings from the Electrecord archives in Bucharest. Her unforgettable songs are the quiet, melancholy laments for a sweetheart, but also the joyful songs to lift the weight off your chest.

La Camorra - 12 Postales - $16.99
(cdRoots# gal-camora12)
The Argentine group takes a step away from Piazzolla this time, with a set of their own compositions, that moves between the classic music of cámara, jazz and of course, the omnipresent tango.

La Cherga - fake no more - $18.99
(cdRoots# hm-artr1708)
21st Century electro-roots music with a pan-Balkanic consciousness. La Cherga consist of six musicians, all from former Yugoslavia. Lead singer Irina Karamarkovic is a refugee from the Kosovo conflict while Nevenko Bucan, a Croat electronics wizard with a taste for dubbed out Balkan grooves, also fled the fiery nationalism that destroyed Tito's Yugoslavia. Other members come from Bosnia and Macedonia.

Oana Catalina Chitu - Bucharest Tango - $18.99
(cdRoots# hm-atr1808)
Bucharest Tango is a unique album, one that resurrects a lost music, the sound of Romanian Tango as played in Bucharest cafes and parks, restaurants and clubs, across the 1930s. Oana Catalina Chitu (pronounced Kitsu) and her musicians combine the lost tango songs of that era with the folk ballads of Maria Tanase (1913-1963; the Romanian Piaf). Until now, no other singer of the younger generation from Romania has been able to approach both the tangos à la romanesque and Tanase's ballads so authentically yet freely. Although Romania is a country with a rich musical tradition, a virus of cheap, electronic pop music has seized the nation post-revolution. Oana represents the cutting edge of a new generation of Romanians interested in the brilliant - now largely forgotten - musical traditions from a bygone age.

Anna Saeki - Tango clásico y moderno - $27.99
(cdRoots# rien-66)
I was dubious, too. A Japanese tango singer.. surely a gimmick. But her 20 years of singing experience, and her wise selection of orchestras and small ensembles make these recordings a nice little addition ot a complete tango collection, an acknowledgement of the international influence that Argentine music has had. To be sure, she sings these classica nd modern songs like no one else, and there is a distinctive sound to it all, and perhaps that is why I was most attracted to it.

various - Tango alla Romanesque - Old World Tangos Vol.2 - $18.99
(cdRoots# rien-40)
The second CD in the Old World Tangos series focuses on the 'Romance' countries of Italy, France, and Romania, with a Greek encore.

Alpcologne - Alpha - $17.99
(cdRoots# wp-87148)
Probably a totally new concept to you, as it is to me: 3 alphorns and vocals. The concept of the band arises from its unusual instrumentation. The warm, rich sound of the 4-meter-long traditional instruments encounters the expressiveness and melodic flexibility of the voice. Like the explorers of past centuries, Alpcologne can experiment with its own sound - playing Folk, Ska, Tango, Mambo, Cajun, Bluegrass, and Oriental music; original compositions or reinterpretations. Unique, to say the least!

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