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Discmedi
Please note!
Most of our CDs have been imported from Europe or Asia. They are not all shrink-wrapped, and I am not going to con you by wrapping them here just to make you think they have been sterilized in America. I guarantee that the CDs and the contents are all brand new and in perfect condition. Whenever I can, I use recycled shipping materials. They may not look as pretty on the outside, but they save money and keep the trash dumps a little bit emptier.
Thanks- Cliff, cdRoots
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Taxi - Antonia Font
$16.99
(cdRoots# medi-font)
Antònia Font is a great folk-rooted rock band from Catalunya, Spain. This is a CD recording, plus a free DVD video (PAL format). The music is fresh and charming, with hints of Brazilian pop and folk, great Catalanian poetry and folk and a strong sense of absurdity and subtle humor. The sweet humor comes forth on the free DVD video included, a short musical film called "Acronia i col-lapse del Dr Polanski," a story of 19th century space travel, robots, moon rabbits and ultimately, romance.
Napoli mediterranea - Pietra Montecorvino
$16.99
(cdRoots# medi-pietra)
Produced by Eugennio Bennato, this Neopolitan singer offers a rich look at the music of Naples and the Mediteranean. Neither strictly folk nor overtly 'pop,' they skirt a lot of boundaries seeking a new context for the old musical styles.
Cuba le canta a Serrat (2 CDs) - various - Cuba
$22.99
(cdRoots# medi-serrat2)
The Catalan songwriter is paid unique homage by a group of Cuban musicians on this wonderful recording. Sometimes the connections are obvious, at other times surprising and revealing, and the overall set is sure to please both Spanish and Cuban music fans. This edition includes 2 CDs with 21 tracks.
Dida - Manou Gallo
$16.99
(cdRoots# medi-dida)
Guitarist, bass player, singer and composer from Ivory Coast (perhaps best known as the bassist for Zap Mama), Gallo is now exploring her own contemporary take on west African music with her first release (2004). It's not a surprising record, with her band Le Djiboi supplying a lot of the same jazz/pop roots that mark Zap Mama, but it is full of solid west African groove with only an occasional lapse into the silly (ie: "Boogie, boogie, boogie...."). Overall, a solid effort for fans of Afrop-pop.
Orgia - Jaume Sisa
$17.99
(cdRoots# medi-sisa)
Jaume Sisa was an important part of Musica Dispersa and is a folk-rock artist with a very idiosyncratic style. His first album Orgia was a prime example of psychedelic rock - the Spanish way - with Sisa followings his whim much like Incredible String Band. The vocals and harmonica playing is a little indebted to Bob Dylan, but a lot stranger. Elsewhere there are kazoos, piano, tablas, recorders, snippets of tapes, and even occasional strings and brass. The same year, 1971, that Musica Dispersa was released, he also put out this great solo album. Crazy acid folk with lots of humour and weird vocals by Sisa himself.
Barricade - Jaune Toujours
$17.99
(cdRoots# medi-barricade)
Andrew Cronshaw writes in fRoots: ' Led by singer Piet Maris, with his energetically-pumped small accordeon plus a hot rhythm unit of double bass and drums and a wild and incisive trumpets and reeds section, they have a very fully-formed, complete sound and rhythmic approach whose components and inspiration are difficult to pin down. Not like a fusionist thing where now you hear this influence, now another; this is so natural that it feels like it's always been there...'
Grabaciones Discos Pizarra: Ano 1930-40 - El Sevillano
$14.99
(cdRoots# medi-922)
Antonio Perez Guererro (El Sevillano) was a football player and one of Spain's noted singers of bulerias and fandangos, eventually singing with the 'Opera Flamenco' as well as with other noted performers fo the time including Caracol and La Nina de los Peines. These recordings from the 30s and 40s have been nicely remastered for this new series from Discmedi, Spain and all tracks feature Niño Ricardo on the guitar.
Barbari - Chichimeca
$16.99
(cdRoots# medi-chichi)
A young acoustic band from Sardinia has a lot of attitude and a lot more talent. They are using modern instruments (guitar, accordion, bass, drums, percussion and voices) in a strong display of new Italian roots.
Obrigado - Gaiteiros Treixadura
$15.99
(cdRoots# medi-trex)
The Galician pipers and drummers are joined by pandereteira group Donicelas of Salceda de Caselas.
Rom i Cafe - Urbalia Rurana
$15.99
(cdRoots# medi-romicafe)
Agusti Vidal, violon, clarinette - Amadeu Vidal, accordion diatonique, flute, derbuka, voice - Joan Josep Garacera, percussions - Toni Torregrosso, guitar, mandola, voice - Ximo Caffarena, soprano sax, flute, voice, Josep Amiorola, violin and voice, with Eduard Casals, vielle à roue and Josemi Sanchez, dulcaina
Lua Meiga - Avalon
$16.99
(cdRoots# medi-avalon1)
The first recording (2001) by 6 women who are bringing the voice and panderetas back into the forefront of Galician folk music.
O Nino do Sol - Milladoiro
$16.99
(cdRoots# medi-milla-nino)
The 2003 release by one of Spain's most influencial new roots ensembles continues their work of bringing the gaitas, zanfonas, harps, flutes, accordions, strings and percussion of their Galician tradition into the new century with style, grace and a fine ear.
Rodasons - various
$16.99
(cdRoots# medi-rodasons)
Celebrating 10 years of folk music on Catalonia Regional Television (Spain), with songs from Miquel Gil, Maria del Mar Bonet, Jaume Arnella, Uc, Al Tall, Al Mayurqa, Traginada, Primera Nota, Casellas Sextet Folk, Grup De Folk, David Cervera, El Pont D'arcalís, Pau I Jordi, Pascal Comelade and Gerard Jacquet, Càlic, Quico Elcelio, El Noi I El Mut De Ferreries, Urbàlia Rurana and Maurizio Martinotti, Música Nostra, Les Violines
Els Temps Encara Estan Canviant 2 - Grup de Folk
$16.99
(cdRoots# medi-grupfolk2)
A group of classic (mostly American) folk and neo-folk political and social songs of the 60s and 70s, performed by some of Spains presitgious folkies including Maria del Mar Bonet, Pau Riba and Jaume Sisa. Inlcudes tunes from Dylan, Guthrie, Ste. Marie. Includes Rock My Soul, Universal Soldier, The Hour That My Ship Comes In, THis Land is My Land, We Shall Overcome, Clementine.
Galicia No Tempo - Milladoiro
$16.99
(cdRoots# medi-milla1)
A suite that commemorates 1000 years of Galician history through the music of one of the regions most repsected ensembles.
Iacobus Magnus - Milladoiro
$16.99
(cdRoots# medi-milla2)
St. James was one of the apostles of Jesus Christ, and is supposededly buried in the Cathedral of Santiago de Compostela. This is a unified series of songs built on the music of Galicia. In a collaboration with The English Chamber Orchestra, the Spanish folk ensemble mixes both styles in an original 'folk orchestral suite'
Gallaecia Fulget - Milladoiro
$16.99
(cdRoots# medi-milla3)
'Bright Galecia' was composed to commemorate the 500th anniversary of Santiago de Compostela University by this well known Spanish folk ensemble, released in 1995.
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