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.

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

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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Al Qantarah - Ammaraciccappa
$18.99
(cdRoots# cni-qant)
This Salentine ensemble have a lot of phrases for their music: "electro-world+salento+maghrebi, ecstatic rhythms of south Italy, desert voices and metropolitan sounds." They make thoroughly modern Italian music, completely rooted in the ancient past, and totally beyond classification or pigeon-holes. Highly recommended.

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trend & trend - Bassignano and Luzzi
$18.99
(cdRoots# cni-trend2)
This is an odd one, and probably only completely engaging if you can speak Italian. What is it? Weel, a small but opulent radio musical (RAI Radio Uno) in which two jesters Ernesto Bassignano and Ezio Luzzi (aka "bax and lux") crack their best jokes, introduce famous guests and play original songs for over four hundred thousand listeners. Important Italian musicians, film-makers, comedians and writers such as Venditti, Monicelli, Proietti, Vaime, Arbore, Bergonzoni, Frassica, Riondino, Piera Degli Espositi and others, demonstrate how it can be possible to participate in a funny radio show with good taste and absolute freedom of expression.

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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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Piccolo Canto Nomade - Mazapagul
$17.99
(cdRoots# cni-maza)
This Italy band from Emila-Romagna grabs folk music, reggae, salsa, jazz, spaghetti western sound track themes and what might be called art school music (i.e., Talking Heads) and toss it around like a musical rag doll. A big brass sound hallmarks this band, and the Blakna influences are pervasive and unique.

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L'Anima du Munnu - Taberna Mylaensis
$17.99
(cdRoots# cni-tab)
Taberna write music about feelings and passions which are unique to their native Sicily. Guitars, accordion, marranzano and percussion instruments are played alongside the Sicilian bagpipe and wind instruments, making the cultural and musical depth of the Mediterranean stand out, providing a contrast to other European traditions and unfurling the true heart of the island.

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Marie Merci - Tabule
$17.99
(cdRoots# cni-tabule)
Tabulè present from Salento both new and old, performed by Claudio Prima (accordion, vocals), Giuseppe De Trizio (mandolin and guitar) and Fabrizio Piepoli (vocals, guitars, bass, bouzouki), Vito de Lorenzi (tamburello), and Stefania Ladisa (violin).

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Tradizioni - Sud Sound System
$17.99
(cdRoots# cni-sud06)

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Alhambra - Gabriele Coen and Atlante Sonoro
$17.99
(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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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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Siqiliah - terra d'Islam - Milagro Acustico
$17.99
(cdRoots# cni-siq07)
Sicily, land of Islam is the ensemble's deeply researched, intelligent and personal recording, the final part of their trilogy of works dedicated to Sicily's Islamic heritage

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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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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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Venticinqueaprile (Live in Fossoli) - Klezroym
$17.99
(cdRoots# cni-klezroym07)
In the town of Fossoli there are still visible traces of the Transit and Police Camp (Polizei- und Durchgangslager). Klezroym were invited by Associazione Ex-Campo Fossoli to commemorate the 60th Anniversary of the Liberation from Nazi-Fascism. Klezroym offer their music in memory of this tragic history, and to reassert the importance of values like freedom, democracy and brotherhood. This CD contains the live recording of that concert as a way to commemorate the past and celebrate Kleroym’s 10 years in music.

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Voce 'e mare - Nando Citarella and La Paranza
$17.99
(cdRoots# cni-citarella2)
Citarella and his ensemble Paranza offer a unique vision of the southern Italian tradition, steeped in Arab-Andalusian sounds, full of the sound of the human voice and the tammorra, vital and energetic. This is a collection of classic songs and liver performances done as only Citarella and company can do it.

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Attinde - Calic
$17.99
(cdRoots# cni-calic)
A modern Sardinian band with strong folk roots and local instrumentation, but plenty of adventure. Instruments include bagpipes, ghirondha (hurdy gurdy), accordion, voices, bouzouki, guitar and percussion

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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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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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Habibi - Agricantus
$16.99
(cdRoots# cni-agri-habibi)
A 2005, mostly live recording from the 2004 and 2005 European tour of the well-known Italian world-fusion ensemble. Includes two new studio recordings, as well. Among the notable performances are a solo on various wind instruments by Mario Crispi and a Mario Rivera one-man drum'n'bass extravaganza.

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

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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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Zarbing - Edison Studio and Mahamad Ghavi-Helm
$17.99
(cdRoots# cni-zarbing)
Music for electronics and Persian percussion - The electronic musicians of Edison Studio join Persian percussionist and vocalist Mahammad Ghavi Helm in an exploration of commonalities and conflicts between ancient and modern tools, ideals and philosophies.

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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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Blue Gold - Kryon
$14.99
(cdRoots# cni-kryon)
Composer Roberto Rusconi and a group of European musicians gather together to make a thematic statement about water and its essential importance to the world's people. A political statement as well as an artistic one, it is finey crafted in jazz, rock and ambient grooves by Roberto Bortoluzzi and Francesco Boldini (guitars), Marco Tamburini (trumpets), Aldo Tagliapietra (sitar), Billy Hart (drums) and Cameron Brown (double-bass) and the vocal creativity of Philadelphia poet Ursula Rucker, Brazilian singer Marisa Monte, and the rappers Napoleon Maddox (from Cincinnati,USA), Juny kp! (Brazil), Papa Winnie (Jamaica), and remixer Alex Danielsson aka DJ 1210 jazz (Sweden).

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Piripicchio - Addosso Agli Scalini
$17.99
(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, in a fusion of high tech and low, they present a trip through the past to discover the feelings, memories and places that define the present.

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Azzurro Mediterraneo - Banda della Scuola Popolare di Musica di Testaccio
$16.99
(cdRoots# cni-azzu)
An indescribable experience: this large ensemble of brass, percussion, accordions and much more presents a truly Italian banda experience, which means, they are all over the map, musicially and geographically, presenting political protest, Israeli dance tunes, Sicilian devotional music and American pop, all rendered completely personal and unusual by the power of their arrangements and musicianship. 40 members, from 15 to 75 years old, mostly students and amateurs but also some professionals present a musical program that will amaze you.

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La Corsa - Radicanto
$16.99
(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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Cuore di Terre - Lucilla Galeazzi
$17.99
(cdRoots# cni-galeazzi)
Singer Galeazzi hails from Umbria in Italy, and comes to this recording with a deep traditional sense of the music. Probably best known in the US for her performances with Philippe Eidel's 'Mammas' project, she is also a veteren of classical, folk and new music. This 1997 recording was reissued in the wake of her new-found popularity, but it stands on its own. Accompanied by Massimo Nardi's guitar, percussion from Nicola Raffone, and Carlo Mariani on launeddas, a reed instrument with a drone much like a bagpipe. Guests supply a minimum of flute, clarinet or bass.

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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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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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En Franso i ero de granda guera - Sergio Bernardo and Lou Dalfin
$17.99
(cdRoots# cni-dalfin)
1983 recording reissued in 2004 features the hurdy gurdy player Bernardo backed by the diverse (and acoustic, yet to be punkified) Occitanian band Lou Dalfin on accordion, horns, reeds, violins, strings and percussion. An little known but groundbreaking recording in the Occitan music revival.

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La via della sete - Nuklearte
$16.99
(cdRoots# cni-nuklearte)
The way of thirst' is a tale dedicated to the environment and human rights, a thirst for justice and for equality, a river of music and words born in the middle of nature and in the isolation of the mountain, but thought by people of the sea, people with unavoidable future and destiny.

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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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in terra e in chelu - TancaRuja
$17.99
(cdRoots# cni-tancaruja2)
Back in Print! An Italian band that deftly balances ancient tradition and modern tecnology and ideas, this is truly a marvelous recording, and I URGE you to click on the link and LISTEN. There's no other way to get you there.

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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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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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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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Berlin-Style - 17 Hippies
$17.99
(cdRoots# cni-17hippies)
The band's elusive, winning sound reflects the elliptical nature of their instrumental anarchy: accordion, hurdy-gurdy, banjo, guitar, mandolin, balalaika, ukulele, strings, double bass, bagpipes, recorders, woodwinds, brass, assorted percussion, and occasional vocal rendition. An eclectic repertoire gives their music a captivating freshness, essaying Bavarian, Swiss, Corsican, Polish and British Isles strains, Cajun, French bourrées, Balkan, Gypsy and Jewish tunes, New World folk traditions north and south, neo-funk, Russian laments, waltzes and Scottish piping. German roots music will never be (and never was) the same.' - RootsWorld

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La casa delle donne - Radicanto
$9.99
(cdRoots# cni-radicasa)
A brief EP from one of my favorite bands, this is music they made for the soundtrack of a movie by Mimmo Mongelli. It is part homage to the spaghetti western, part Italian folk-opera, but all original and definately hangs on to the bands southern (Italian) roots.

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Slossa Somossa - Addosso agli Scalini
$17.99
(cdRoots# cni-addosso)
The band is from Bari, Southern Italy and their music is influenced by the traditional sounds of that area but creates a strong, moving piece of 'ethno-rock' music. Addosso agli Scalini (literal translation = on top of the steps) means, using the words of the band, 'to take an uncomfortable position or stand, to stay on top of or right on the music, the lyrics, the reality of our homeland and the vestiges of our past in order to lead us to echo the music of other cultures that have helped form the people we are today.'

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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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La Luz Prodigiosa - Ennio Morricone
$17.99
(cdRoots# cni-morri-luz)
Music for the film by Miguel Hermoso and featuring the title song sung by Dulce Pontes

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Calura - Agricantus
$17.99
(cdRoots# cni-agri-cal)
This new Agricantus production underlines the innovative use of a new sonority between rock and ethnic jazz, with contributions from Lutte Berg, the eclectic guitarst. Occasionsal trips with electro, drum’n’bass and ethnic.

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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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Ethnosphere - Agricantus
$19.99
(cdRoots# cni-agricantus-ethno)
new roots-fusion from Italy. 2 CD set

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Il viaggiatore degli astri - Amarcord
$17.99
(cdRoots# cni-amarcord)
The premiere recording from the Bolognese 'small Amarcord orchestra.' Fisarmonica, bugles, guitars, melodies that carry the rhythm of Balkan music with an hint of Dixieland, and with unmistakable, viral world sound that shrieks of Fellini.

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Tretarante - Arakne Mediterranea
$17.99
(cdRoots# cni-arak)
An association based in Martignano in the Southern Italian region of Salento dedicated to the preservation and diffusion of the traditions and folk cultures of Salento.

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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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Coexist - Nour-Eddine
$16.99
(cdRoots# cni-coexist)
Coexist is above all a harmonious joint effort of musicians from alla over mixing traditional magreb instruments with modern tehnology. Coexist is also philosophy of world citizenship, aspires to live in harmony with respect for nature and all it's inhabitants.

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Soffi - Mario Crispi
$17.99
(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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Lunario - Lucilla Galeazzi
$17.99
(cdRoots# cni-galeazzi-lunario)
The 2001 album from this powerful Umbrian (Italy) singer brings with it both her recent folk-rooted energy and a bigger instrumental sound, featuring guitars, accordion, percussion, reeds, violin and viola . Fans of her tracks on the 1990's Mammas recording will love this full sound and of course, one of the great passionate voices of Europe

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Yankele nel Ghetto - Klezroym
$17.99
(cdRoots# cni-klezroym2)
Klezroym's last production is an original elaboration of the songs of the Lodz Ghetto, collected in Gila Flam's book 'Singing for survival, Songs of the Lodz Ghetto, 1940-45,' presented as a song suite.

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Sceni - Klezroym
$17.99
(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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La notte del dio che balla - Various Artists
$17.99
(cdRoots# cni-notte)
The night of the dancing god is a reasonable translation, and an apt title for this diverse collection of Italian folk, roots, jazz and pop music. Originally put together as a travelling program to celebrate myth and rituals of the Italian past. the bands and artists involved are some of the best in the country: Agricantus, Daniele Sepe, Addosso Agli Scalini, RestArt and Nidi d'Arc supply contemporary edge to the project. Ambrogio Sparagna offers some phenomenal organetto (accordion). Director of the project was singer Teresa de Sio, a fine traditional singer. It's an impressive mix, wildly unrelated in style and yet intimately connected in spirit. Just listen to the amazing Tarantella Calbresse, a tour de force of roots and jazz by Daniele Sepe, and you will see the endless possibilities. – RootsWorld

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Pamunt Rom Group - Pamunt Rom Group
$17.99
(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
$17.99
(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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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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Roots'n'Bass - Mario Rivera with Leo Cesari
$17.99
(cdRoots# cni-rivera)
with Lester Bowie, John Trudell, Agricantus, Dissidenten

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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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Ballu furiosu - Tancaruja
$no longer available
(cdRoots# cni-tancaruja3)
The third time out for this contemporary roots ensemble from Sardinia and this one really hits it's mark. Much stronger on their island roots, more agressive in their playing, this band is fast becoming one of the best new interpreters of the music

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Venexia - Calicanto
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(cdRoots# cni-calicanto)
The Venetian group Calicanto is one of the most elegant of the new folk ensembles to come out of Italy. Venexia is a celebration and a remembrance, a commemoration of the fall of the Venetian Republic in 1797. Like the city it honors, their music is cosmopolitan, a blend of Mediterranean cultures with a bit of an eastern attitude. Accordions, bagpipes, reeds, flutes, mandola, percussion and guitars cement the music with some beautiful vocals.

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Laborintomare - Calicanto
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(cdRoots# cni-calicanto-maze)
An exploration of the Venecian influenced music of the north Adriatic coast by one of northern Italy's most innovative and inquisitive ensembles.

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A su primu ispuntare - Tenore de Orosei
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(cdRoots# cni-orosei)
A group of singers from Sardinia whose music is somewhat different to the more familiar 'tenores' such as Bitti or Neoneli; this album is a moving and inspiring piece of work which gives you an insight into this remarkable style of singing.

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Tarantulae - Nidi d'Arac
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(cdRoots# cni-nidi-taran)
Contemporary folk music from Italy.

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Klezroym - Klezroym
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(cdRoots# cni-klezroym1)
The first recording by Italy's top klezmer group takes its inspiration from the Askenazite, (Eastern-European hebrew community) and Sefardite (Spanish-Hebrews) traditions and then mixes these sounds with different musical cultures (Mediterranean, Middle-Eastern, Italian), thereby creating a fascinating musical bridge between ethnic / traditional music and contemporary jazz sounds.

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La Tarantella del Gargano - I Cantori di Carpino
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(cdRoots# cni-bennato2)
Eugenio Bennato directs the ensemble of battente guitarist and vocalist Sacco Andrea (born in 1911), accompanied by two other elderly singers (Maccarone and Piccininno) and by a group of 5 young people from Carpino (between 13 and 20 years old) who accompany their grandfathers in the unmistakable fantastic style of Carpino.

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Terra di magia - I Tarumba
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(cdRoots# cni-tarumba)
A young band from the heart of Basilicata takes their turn at reinventing the pizzica tarantata, recreating the mystic possession with using modern methods and ancient instruments like wood percussion and the cuppa-cuppa drum along with guitars and violins. Youthful energy abounds, and there's not a synthesizer to be found in this percussion-driven music.

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Duende - Gabriele Coen - Atlante Sonoro
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(cdRoots# cni-duende)
Everybody got 'duende' these days, it seems. This Italian jazz quartet has it in abundance. Says Coen, 'I try to listen to the music of every country….Africa, India, the arab world, the european classic music….I love traditional music,popular music, and try to discover what other countries musically say...all music genres are linked in their intime essence.' Gabriele Coen: soprano sax, clarinet; Pietro Lussu: piano; Marco Loddo: acoustic bass and Luca Caponi: drums, percussion.

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E Manco O Sole... - Marcello Colasurdo
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(cdRoots# cni-colasurdo)
A well-known figure on the Neapolitan music scene, Marcello has worked alongside important musicians and in important musical projects. He was singer with the celebrated group E Zezi of Pomigliano D'Arco, he had a part, for example, in Sanacore (Almamegretta), La Bomba Intelligenteî(Bisca), Vite Perdite and Spiritus Mundi(Daniele Sepe) and he is currently working with La Nuova Compagnia di Canto Popolare.

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Poeti Arabi Di Sicilia - Milagro Acustico
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(cdRoots# cni-poeti)
Using the writings Sicilian Arab poets from 827-1091 A.D. the ensemble creates a new, pan-mediterranean sound base with voices, horns, flutes, guitar, percussion, and baglama. They bring North Africa and Sicily together, with bits of the rest of the world as an undertone.

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