CNI

Compagnia Nuove Indye is one of the most innovative and diverse recod labels in Italy, with a catalog that spans traditional folk to agressive new fusions, from club sounds to street sounds, barely taking note of the differences.

Tuareg - Agricantus
$13.99
(cdRoots# xyy-agri-cal)
1996 recording by the Italian global-grooves experimenters finds them criss-crossing southern Italy and Nortth Africa for inspiration.

Piripicchio - Addosso Agli Scalini
$13.99
(cdRoots# cni-aas06)
The band from Puglia returns in 2006 with another modern recording about uneasiness of culture clash, and the poetry and rhythm in their encounter of various cultures. In ten songs they present a trip through the past to discover the feelings, memories and places that define the present.

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Archedora - Archedora (Colombo and Corradi)
$17.99
(cdRoots# cni-arch)
Rachele Colombo and Corrado Corradi and their musical support team have created a beautifully dreamy recording of Italian roots and global branches. Colombo's voice, guitar, synthesizers and percussion and Corradi's accordions create a lush atmosphere, supported by electric bass, piano, strings, percussion and voices. Colombo and Corradi are also members of the Venetian band Calicanto.

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Descalso - Archedora
$17.99
(cdRoots# cni-arch2)
Rachele Colombo (voice, guitar, percussion and keyboards), and Corrado Corradi (bandoneon, English concertina, percussion and voice) return for their second duo recording, joined by a small ensemble of flute, reeds, bass strings and voices, a string quartet and other guests for a new exploration of the music and life of Venice and the Veneto region of Italy. This is dense, classy music, with lush arrangements (think classic Brazilian), very contemporary and yet very old sounding.

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Chitarra Battente - Marcello Vitale
$17.99
(cdRoots# cni-battente)
The beating guitar' of Vitale is already well known to fans of Eugenio Bennato, as Vitale is an integral member of the Bennato Taranta Power family. Here is his solo recording, focused on the guitar and lightly accompanied by percussion, guitars, oud, mandocello and tamburello. Vocalists include Vitale, Daniela Bonaventa and Paulo Agrippa.

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Alhambra - Gabriele Coen and Atlante Sonoro
$13.99
(cdRoots# cni-coen07)
Gabriele Coen is one of the founders of Klezroym. This is his second solo album with the Atlante Sonoro project.Featuring Pietro Lussu on piano, Marco Loddo on bass and Luca Caponi on drums, Gabriele Coen (soprano and tenor sax and clarinet) is exploring fascinating places the border lands between the sunny landscapes of Mediterranean music and contemporary jazz. This project also includes Lutte Berg on guitar, playing on two different tracks. The different pages of this Atlante Sonoro are Hebrew music from eastern Europe, the Mediterranean, various European jazz traditions and the arabesques of Alhambra.

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Soffi - Mario Crispi
$13.99
(cdRoots# cni-crispi)
Sicilian musician Mario Crispi (one fo the foundign members of Agricantus) has researched the wind instruments of the world: the ney (Persian, Turkish and Arabian), the selijefloyte from Lapland, the North African zummara, the Sardinian launeddas, the Egyptian arghoul, the Balkan clarinet, the Andean antara and sikus, the Turkish duduk, the Sicilian marranzanu, the Australian didjeridoo.

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Le Rose del Deserto - soundtrack
$15.99
(cdRoots# cni-dererto)
Soundtrack to the film by Mario Municelli features Almamegretta, Nidi d"arac, Solar Orchestra, Tricarico, Mario Crispi and others

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Garage Tango - Gigi
$12.99
(cdRoots# cni-gigi)
An evocation of bellows instruments (accordion, bandoneon, etc) are blended with pop-dance arrangements in an unusual and surprisingly satisfying montage. In this CD, the first 'virtual accordion' (Roland V-accordion) was used; its physical sound modelling technology enables the musicians to express their creativity to sweep unexplored musical genres. Luigi Bruti, who's responsible for Roland's musical laboratory, is also the author of this musical instrument.

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Io (4 CD box set) - Ennio Morricone
$74.99
(cdRoots# cni-io)
4 CD set in presentation box: Music for Piano; Film Music; Chamber Music; Symphony Music

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Mundis Imaginalis - Isola
$17.99
(cdRoots# cni-isola)
Lots of poetic license in this recording of Sicilian music by Iolanda Vacalebre (vocals), Nicola Rustica (guitar and vocals) and Giovanni Crispino (violin, violoncello and guitar).

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Sceni - Klezroym
$13.99
(cdRoots# cni-klezroym-sceni)
This outstanding klezmer ensemble is based in Italy, and they forage into the world of Jewish music, tinged with contemporary jazz, deeply rooted in Eastern European and Mediterranean musical traditions. The group plays musicthat crosses borders and mixes different cultures effortlessly, and on this recording they are graced with two guest musicians that complete the circle: the Arab artists Karam Abdelmagid (oud) and Abdullah Mohamed (darbouka).

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Lengua Serpentina - Roberta Alloisio with Orchestra Bailam
$17.99
(cdRoots# cni-lengua)
Italian vocalist Alloisio offers a project that joins an Oriental sound, the tempos of the Balkans, the chant-like singing of Genoa and lyrics taken from both classical and popular literature spanning from the XIII century to now. A rich mixture of different sounds is completed with arrangements of Franco Minelli and the Orchestra Bailam, with additional vocal help from another fine singer of baroque and ancient music, Marco Beasley. Highly recommended.

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Pai Nai - Methel and Lord
$17.99
(cdRoots# cni-methel)
Impossible to adequately describe, this unusual collaboration of peorty and music crosses a lot of boundaries, with it's mix of jazzy rock, folky blues and artsy bad attitude. 'Methel is the composer and the voice of the band, and together with Lord arranges acoustic and electric music with special electronic effects that break the natural rythm of the compositions and create a very unusual, evocative sounds.'

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Il canto di Israele / The song of Israel - Riccardo Joshua Moretti
$17.99
(cdRoots# cni-moretti)
Performed by the Midrash Music Ensemble. Italian composer Moretti explores Jewish and klezmer music from a deep and unusual perspective, looking to classical roots for inspiration, but also at home in the worlds of Rota and Morricone. An unexpected revelation.

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Apologia Di Un Canovaccio - Neaskene
$17.99
(cdRoots# cni-neaskene06)
The debut (2006) by a young band from Ravenna, Italy. Fronted by singer Sara Cicognani. Neaskenè work within and without the tradition, mixing jazz, ethnic music, other national idioms and original writing. Tammorre (traditional drums), fretless electric bass, acoustic and electric guitars, mandolin and other local and global instruments are merged to create a distinctively "pop" sound with a real edge and solid roots.

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Pamunt Rom Group - Pamunt Rom Group
$13.99
(cdRoots# cni-parmut)
The Pamunt Rom Group includes Ionut Gugulan (accordion and vocals), Florin Barby (guitar and vocals) , Adrian Nan (stand-up bass), Castel Ciortan (accordion), and Laurentiy Dinca (clarinet), with Ciccio Merolla (percussion) and Riccardo Veno (soprano saxophone). The trademark sound is the furious interplay between the two accordions, or the accordions and the reeds.

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Terra Arsa - Radicanto
$18.99
(cdRoots# cni-radicanto)
Music that holds the heat of Salento, in southern Italy, and translates that energy into a uniquely personal statement.

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La Corsa - Radicanto
$17.99
(cdRoots# cni-radicanto05)
Now truly a rock band with a Salentine heart, Radicanto's 2005 excursion explores the sound and fury of sourthern Italy with an ear to the global pop music scene.

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Lettere Migranti - Radicanto
$17.99
(cdRoots# cni-radicanto-lettere)
The Italian band explores the issues and stories of emigration in a series of contemporary songs based on the tradition. Taking the traditions of Puglia and merging them with a trans-Mediterranean modernity has made radicanto one of the most stunning bands in southern Italy. Their recording Terra Arsa was one of our records of the year in 2001, and this recording follows closely behind it for its strong mix of contemporary pop and jazz with an undying local sensibility.

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Il giardino delle delizie - Vito Ranucci and Napoli Est
$17.99
(cdRoots# cni-ranu07)
Neopolitan arranger, composer and saxophone player Ranucci is joined by the large ensemble Napoli Est for his 2007 work.

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Ronde Noe - Nidi d'Arac
$17.99
(cdRoots# cni-ronde)

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Sands - Alephra
$17.99
(cdRoots# cni-sands)
Italian composer and musicans presents new music for ud, duduk, percussion and some electronics.

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Satyricon Circus - Satyricon Circus
$18.99
(cdRoots# cni-saty)
A rich new musical production, the work of composer Gabriele Coen (Klezroym), Mario Rivera (Agricantus) and Vito Ranucci, with participation from Barbara Eramo, Gabriel Zagni, Maria Letizia Gorga, Federica Vincenti and Gianni Santucci.

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Amnesia (a film by Gabriele Salvatores) - various Artists (soundtrack)
$17.99
(cdRoots# cni-sepe-amnesia)
Includes original music for the film by Daniele Sepe, and songs by Macaco, Leonard Cohen, Corporate Avenger and Ojos De Brujo

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Lavorare Stanca - Daniel Sepe
$17.99
(cdRoots# cni-sepe-lavorare)
This contemporay collection of music by Italian composer/musican Daniele Sepe is as diverse as it gets. Traditional polyphonic singing, jazz, theater music, folk music and reggae all merge harmoniously in this rich, colorful and often disturbing portrait of a culture.

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Cammenann - SOS
$17.99
(cdRoots# cni-sos07)
They blend Mediterranean sound and Neapolitan lyrics, and as they put it, 'contaminations melt down to create a half-caste and strange rock.' They start the journey in a Naple's neighbourhood, taking inspiration by the' 'Neapolitan Sound' of the 80's (Pino Daniele, Avitabile, Senese, E' Zezi and Almamegretta) and add Egyptian, Nigerian, Senegalese and Algerian influences to make a melting pot of styles, races, cultures and traditions.

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Stari Most - Stefano Saletti and Piccola Banda Ikona
$17.99
(cdRoots# cni-starimost)
The latest work by Stefano Saletti (founder and leader of Novalia) and the Piccola Banda Ikona, a newly formed group that brings together members of Nuklearte), Agricantus, Novalia, Nando Citarella Band, Acustimantico, Klezroym and others to explore the culture and language of the mediterranean basin in a most contemporary way.

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Isettande - Tancaruja
$17.99
(cdRoots# cni-tancaruja)
This is music refreshing, rhythmically interesting and musically well played. This ensemble from Sardinia has found their path by abandoning the electronics in favor of more wood and sinew. It has one truly treacly moment, but otherwise, I think the music speaks strongly for itself.

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Tara Gnawa - Phaleg and Nour Eddine
$17.99
(cdRoots# cni-taragnawa)
The TaraGnawa project brings together two sides of the Mediterranean; Phaleg's Calabrian roots in Italy and the Mahgrebi roots of Morocco's gnawa tradition as exemplified in the music of Nour Eddine. It is performed with both daring and sensitivity to the traditions of both cultures, creating something new rather than simply fusing disparate elements.

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U squatasce - I Tarantolati di Tricarico
$17.99
(cdRoots# cni-usquat07)
Five years after their unique Andamenare this Italian ensemble is back with another recovery of traditional music based on their research of the culture. The 'melos' (a kind of popular, spontaneous chant) is mixed with strong rhythms, traditional melody to create what they call 'a musical exorcism that remembers the ancient Dyonisia,' in a staunchly contemporary mix of ideas.

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Le vespe - Stefano Saletti and Renato Giordano
$14.99
(cdRoots# cni-vespe)
The idea behind Le vespe was not to recover 'the lost music of the Greeks,' but to search for a 'Spirito Sonoro' that was compatible with the ancient ideals. Le Vespe is a search for commonality and digression in the music of the Balkan peninsula, from modern and ancient Greece, Bulgaria, the Roma and beyond, fused with the art music of Europe, both old and contemporary. It is both and neither ancient and modern, and the tension and beauty this divergence creates is palpable.

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I Storie ò Cafè di lu Furestiero - Milagro Acustico
$18.99
(cdRoots# tdr-milagro)
Adventurous, sumptuous Mediterranean music from Sicily

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