Coming Soon
Here are some titles that are sceduled for release in the near future, including new titles, reissues and classics I just managed to find

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Mamadou Barry - Niyo - $coming soon
(cdRoots# hm-wv479033)
The Guinean musician plays tenor, alto and soprano sax, flute and percussion. A connoisseur of all the sub-region's rhythms and music styles, Barry is open to all musical trends. Niyo was recorded with some of Conakry's best musicians, all generations included, both modern and traditional with three of the finest female voices in Guinea. he merges rootsy tradition, Afrobeat energy and Manding melodies into his own sound.

Susan McKeown and Lorin Sklamberg - Saints & Tzadiks: Yiddish & Irish Songs - $coming soon
(cdRoots# hm-wv468089)
Vocalists Susan McKeown and Lorin Sklamberg (of the Klezmatics) present a fascinating album combining Yiddish and Irish songs culled from rare archive material and old recordings, with themes common to the Jewish and Irish traditions: love, death, betrothal, betrayal and the demon drink. The bulk of the Jewish material is drawn from the Ruth Rubin Archive at the YIVO Institute for Jewish Research, where Sklamberg serves as Sound Archivist. The Irish songs come from both the popular and the ancient Gaelic sean nós traditions.

Sevda Alekperzadeh - Sevdali Dunya: Worlds of Love - $coming soon
(cdRoots# hm-n495125)
Sevda, the sensual singing marvel from the Caspian Sea, returns with more from her expressive repertoire. Her voice fills the broad range between the traditional and the modern in Azerbaijan, between mugam and jazz. Husky, blues-like tones rework lamentations of traditional mugam, full of direct emotion and modern composure, all at a virtuoso level in a rapid dance between bright sky and dark earth. Sevda is accompanied once again by some outstanding Azerbaijani musicians, many of whom represent that country's new generation of performers.

Alfio Antico - Viaggio in Sicilia - $coming soon-18.99
(cdRoots# rd-afm115)
The Sicilian percussionist and vocalist returns with a small ensemble - Amedeo Ronga on doublebass and Alessandro Moretti on accordeon (plus a few guests) for a 'trip to Sicily.'

Deng Hong and Chen Shasha - Qin: Celestial Music for Qin and Xiao - $coming soon-18.99
(cdRoots# cda-cap21818)
Deng Hong plays a qin from the 13th century. The songs here typically symbolize the tranquillity achieved from closeness to nature and echo the themes of ancient poems. Chen Shasha accompanies on xiao. Includes excellent English notes

Boot - Soot - $coming soon
(cdRoots# cda-soot)
Boot is Hållbus Totte Mattsson (mandora, Baroque lute, from hedningarna), Ola Bäckström (violin, bouzouki, well known fiddler and member of Swap) and Samuel Andersson (percussion, hurdy-gurdy, octave violin; from Hedningarna, Godrun), three well respected Swedish musicians who are familiar with tradition in a powerful new trio recording.

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.

Flavio Sala and Juan Lorenzo - Encuentro - $coming soon
(cdRoots# rd-3011)
Flavio Sala, born in Campobasso, and Juan Lorenzo, a flamenco guitarist who has studied in Sevilla, and who has played with such great artists as Andrea Bocelli, Mario Reyes (Gipsy Kings), Al di Meola and Pino Daniele, seek a common ground on which the classical tradition and the flamenco legacy can thrive, experimenting and defining a new guitar language inside of classical Venezuelan themes, Granada flamenco, and jazz-like improvisation.

Al Andaluz Project - Deus et diabolus - $-coming soon-17.99
(cdRoots# gal-andaluz)
The Spanish/Sephardic musicians of L'ham de Foc join Estampie, a German group known for its dedication to medieval music, in a recording made at the Dominican monastery of La Cartuja de Cazalla, near Sevilla and explore medieval Sephardic, Arabic, and Christian traditions.

Sally Nyolo - Mémoire du Monde - $coming soon-temp out of stock14.99
(cdRoots# sky-038)
An electro-acoustic album that uses the 6/8 of Bikusti rhythm of Cameroun along with more modern inspiration. Recorded in Cameroon with local musicians, and then in Paris with her own band, the music swings from one language to another (Eton and French), inventing a new way of singing the songs. There is pure Bikutsi in this album, but also blues and reggae. The album is entirely written, produced and realized by Nyolo, with assitance on a few tracks from Michel Aimé, Marc Etienne and Sylvain Marc. Former Zap Mama sister Sylvie Nawasadio, and Bokué Pygmy singers from Cameroun also participate.

Trans-Global Underground - Moonshout - $coming soon-temp out of stock-14.99
(cdRoots# sky-039)
The 2007 release by this uncategorizable British globalpop band pushes yet more buttons and borders.

Alban Faust - Naken - $coming soon-17.99
(cdRoots# cda-vild2)
Swedish folks music for nyckelharpa, aolo performances of traditional and original songs by this master musician and instrument maker orignally from germany, now living in Dalsland, Sweden Listen

Baltic Crossing - Baltic Crossing - $coming soon
(cdRoots# go-0508)
Baltic Crossing use their strong affinity for old dance music and respect for each others traditions to bring a new youthful energy to the folk music of Europe. Wherever they meet, at least one has to cross the Baltic Sea. The ensemble is Kristian Bugge (DK) on violin; Antti Jarvela (FI) on acocustic bass, mandolin, banjo; Esko Jarvela (FI) on violin, viola; Andy May (UK) on Northumbrian and Uilleann pipes and piano and Ian Stephenson (UK) on guitar, melodeon.

Gunnel Mauritzson Band - Det som sker… - $coming soon
(cdRoots# cda-sr13)
13 new tracks, 3 of the them traditional, the rest composed by Gunnel. Contemporary Swedish poets Ingrid Sjöstrand, Marie Lundquist and Ylva Eggehorn have contributed lyrics to 8 of the songs. 2 tracks are instrumentals. GMB':s music is anchored in Swedish folk tradition, and the listener is taken on a musical journey sometimes influenced by jazz. The ensemble is Christian Jormin - drums, percussion and piano; Jonas Knutsson - saxophones; and Stefan Wingefors - double bass, piano and accordion. Special guests are Johan Hedin - nyckelharpa; and Erik Steen - Spanish guitar.

Nordic - Metropol - $coming soon
(cdRoots# cda-kmh19)
With an urge for experimentation and deep understanding of Swedish folk music, Erik Rydvall (keyfiddle), Magnus Zetterlund (mandolin) and Anders Löfberg (cello) offer a combination of instruments that is unique. The result is a musical web of cinematic compositions filled with harmonies, rhythms, groove and improvisation. Listen

Månsson and Aberg - Alvdans - $temp out of stock-more coming soon-18.99
(cdRoots# cda-db127)
On their 2009 release, Älvdans, Swedish duo of Göran Månsson, one of Sweden's foremost flutists, and Sven Åberg on lutes and guitar, has a sound that is totally unique; a mix of their own compositions and traditional material, backed-up Jonas Åkerlund, violins and Petter Berndalen, percussion. (Göran Månsson also performs with Gjallarhorn.)

Ranarim - Allt vid den ljusa stjärnan - $coming soon-18.99
(cdRoots# cda-sp001)
Traditional Christmas songs from Sweden