Napoli MandolinOrchestra - Serenata Luntana - $18.99
(cdRoots# rd-mandolino)
Led by master musicians/composers Antonello Paliotti, Mauro Squillante and Leonardo Massa, this large string and percussion orchestra from Naples will absolutely surprise you with their strong and passionate mix of old and new, played out on a large stage with a lot dynamics and energy.

Massimo Ferrante - Jamu - $18.99
(cdRoots# rd-8158)
On his second 'solo' recording, Ferrante explores again the Sicilian, Calabrian, Apulian and Campanian folk song-book, re-inventing it from a modern viewpoint, recontructing but never changing its heart. His guides are always the roots of the folk music and poetry of the region: Rosa Balistrieri, Otello Profazio, Ignazio Buttitta. On Jamu he is joined by a small, tight band of accordion, bass, guitars, tamburi and clarinet.

Lou Dalfin - W Jan D’L’Eiretto - $17.99
(cdRoots# rd-8155)
Originally released in 1992 Listen

Lou Dalfin - Gibous, Bagase e Bandi - $17.99
(cdRoots# rd-8156)
Originally released in 1995 Listen

Lou Dalfin and Sustraia - Radio Occitania Libra - $17.99
(cdRoots# rd-8157)
Live concert recording originally released in 1997 Listen

Canzoniere Grecanico Salentino - ballatti tutti quanti ballati forte - $18.99
(cdRoots# rd-grecanico)
One of the first group to present traditional music from Puglia (Southern Italy), thirteen songs from the traditional repertoire. The texts tell story of the tarantism and other trance phenomenon of the area as well as of other activities related to the local daily life

Sidh - Lila - $17.99
(cdRoots# rd-8123)
Sidh presents a hybrid between the traditional sounds of the Gnawa and the rhythms and melodies of the Mediterranean. Young Italian-based Algerian musician Sidh (vocals, guembri, bendir, qraqueb) is joined by Riccardo Manzi (guitar and bouzouki), Renato Vecchio (saxophones, flute, duduk), Zaki Bedaida (acoustic guitar and vocals), Youcef Grim (percussion) and a vocal trio.

Riccardo Tesi - Il Ballo Della Lepre - $17.99
(cdRoots# rd-tesi1)
One of Tesi's earlier works, more folk-traditional than recent recordings, but in some opinions around here, still one of is best

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!

Marisa Sannia - Rosa de papel - $18.99
(cdRoots# rd-8139)
Marisa Sannia wrote: "We don't have to read poetry with our eyes , we have to read it with the voice. The eyes help us to decipher it, the ears help us to discover the rhythm of it, but it's with the voice that we can recreate it". The Sardinian singer probed the deep sea of Federico Garcia Lorca's poetry, choosing and collecting words and compositions of the great Andalusian poet. The lyrics of each song (except for "pequeño vals vienes" by Leonard Cohen and "La cancion de la mariposa" by Amancio Prada) were all set into music by the artist and performed in acoustic settings for piano and guitar

BEV - Bonifica Emiliana Veneta - Materiali Tradizionali - $18.99
(cdRoots# rd-8109)
2006 release by the Emilian-Venetian ensemble is a veritible ancient 'wall of sound' for hurdy gurdies, bagpipes, voices, reeds, horns, accordion and more.

Simone Guiducci Gramelot Ensemble - Cantador - $17.99
(cdRoots# rd-catador)
as the band itself puts it, this is “fluid and free, rippling between jazz, classical and popular music, between regional and global, between the ancient and modern world. It is a language of jazz improvisation interwoven with popular melodies, spoken with an ease and grace. It is many “languages”, spoken as musical expressions or idioms, which come together in a world where the imagination shapes them into new and old forms that are always intriguing”.

Mamadou Diabate, Ustad Shujaat Husain Khan, Vidwan Lalgudi Gjr Khrishnan - Strings Tradition - $18.99
(cdRoots# rd-8100)
Strings Tradition is an original production, different from the countless recordings which try to mix and mingle musical cultures of various origins. It deals with the union of classical traditions (West Africa, North Indian and South India) which have little in common with the vague idea of popular music that we usually associate with the music of the Indian sitar and violin and the Malian kora. These three musicians are all important artists in their own countries and each one offers inspiration and guidance to the others' musical traditions. They are accompanied by Gourishankar on tabla and Muraly Trichy on ghatam.

Totore Chessa - Organittos - $17.99
(cdRoots# rd-chessa)
One of the masters of the Italian melodeon, this is pure folk music played brilliantly, accompanied by voice, launeddas

Ciuma Salvi Tombesi - Trio - $17.99
(cdRoots# rd-cst-trio)
Phenomenal new recording from three of Italys' best accordionists

Enzo Favata - Voyage en Sardigne - $17.99
(cdRoots# rd-favata-voyage)
the Italian composer and musician is joined by his own Jana Project, accordionist Totore Chessa, the tenores di Bitti and Orosei and marcello Peghin in an adventurous voyage to Sardinia that include deep traditional roots, contemporary new music and jazz influences.

Filippo Gambetta - Pria Goaea - $17.99
(cdRoots# rd-gambetta2)
The Italian accordionists 2nd recording, with Claudio de Angeli (acoustic guitar) and Riccardo Barbera, plus father Beppe Gambetta on guitar, Canadian violinist Oliver Schroer and nyckelharpist Sandra Wong.

Banda Ionica - Passione - $17.99
(cdRoots# rd-ionica)
Brass band music from Sicily and southern Italy

Banda Ionica - Matri Mia - $17.99
(cdRoots# rd-ionica2)
The Italian brass band is remade in this Fellini-like set of music from Sicily, part tradition, part innovative sleep-walk.

Canzoniere Della Ritta E Della Manca - Malevento - $17.99
(cdRoots# rd-malevento)
Contemporary folk music from Campania, a region of South Italy centered around Naples. This is music rooted in tradition, but definately contemporary in execution.

Tre Martelli - Car der Steili - $17.99
(cdRoots# rd-martelli)
Songs and dances from the Italian Peidmont

Tre martelli - Semper Viv - $17.99
(cdRoots# rd-martelli-semper)
Culling the best tracks from their previous five (no longer available) albums of the music from the tradition of southern Piedmont. On the scene for some 25 years now, the TRE MARTELLI have patiently reconstructed the folk music heritage of the geographical triangle between Monferrato, Langhe and Alessandrino, gathering together a huge repertoire of drinking songs, ballads, instrumentals and dance music from walzes to polkas.

Elena Ledda - Maremannu - $17.99
(cdRoots# rd-ledda3)
Back in stock: One of the prime movers in the reival of Sardinian song, Ledda is above all a passionate and brilliant singer, regardless of the style she chooses. Joined by a superb ensemble of mandola, guitars, percussion and bass, and the appearance of accordionist Riccardo Tesi on many tracks, this recording (her second under her own name) proves that her vision is clear and strong.

Napoli Mandolin Orchestra - Mandolini All'Opera - $17.99
(cdRoots# rd-8132)
This second project by the ensemble from Naples, Italy presents some musical melodrama, reworking the tradition of the Italian plectrum clubs, which, between XIX and XX century, popularized the opera outside the legitimate theater. Her they take on a fantasia from Bellini, Verdi's Traviata, Donizetti's Don Pasquale, Bizet's Carmen and others, all given a romantic yet visceral reinterpretation that is both antique and refreshing.

Municipale Balcanica - Road To Damascus - $17.99
(cdRoots# rd-8140)
This group from Puglia offers a rich and ingenious synthesis of Eastern Europe sounds and Mediterranean flavors, expressed with inventiveness and energy and full of instrumental precision, always arranged with an attentive eye to jazz and improvisation.

Tango Negro Trio - La Vuelta del Malon - $17.99
(cdRoots# rd-8131)
Conceived by pianist, vocalist and composer Juan Carlos Caceres, with "El Tero" Buschini and Marcelo Russillo, the trio explores an alternative history of tango, a body of work Caceres has been restlessly building since 1968, the year in which he moved from his native Buenos Aires to Paris. In the liner notes, Caceresdeclares that wuth this new recording he wants to update the cultural traditions still present in the region of the Rio De La Plata estuary in Argentina.

Dem Trio - The Fountain - Turkish Musical Traditions - $17.99
(cdRoots# rd-8133)
The Turkish trio of Murat Ozturk (baglama, tanbura, lavta, cumbus, voice), Murat Salim Tokac (tanbur, ney) and Cenk Guray (fretless baglama, divan sazi) are joined by guests Nursah Acun (voice) and Emre Erdal (kemence) present a 'chamber music' approach to the ancient Ottoman culture, presented in a contemporary interpretation, strongly underlying the relationship betweeen Turkish music and that of the neighbouring regions (Greece, the Balkans, the Middle-East).

Gruppo Spontaneo Trallalero - Vagabondo - $17.99
(cdRoots# rd-8129)
a celebration of the northern Italian tradition of 'circle singing,' the trallaleri vocal tradions of the region around Genoa, and a recording to celebrate the 20th anniversary of this ensemble. Listen

BEV - variable/naturale - $17.99
(cdRoots# rd-bev2)
The 2001 release from the Italian ensemble aka BonificaEmilianaVeneta

Elena Ledda - Sonos - $17.99
(cdRoots# ledda)
Sardinian vocalist uses folk roots to forge a daring new acoustic music

Rosapaeda - Mater Heart Folk - $17.99
(cdRoots# rd-8124)
Pugliese vocalist Antonella "Rosapaeda" Di Domenico is back, and as great as ever. From religious nursery rhymes to dub, from funk to Neapolitan-inflected melodies, rhythmic pizzica and more, she is at the peak of her artistic powers. Accompanying her are an excellent group of musicians that includes Eddi Romano on accordion and Domenico Lopez on classical guitar. Highly recommended.

Gai Saber - La Fabrica Occitana - $17.99
(cdRoots# rd-8112)
2006 release by this now well-seasoned young Occiantian folk rock ensemble of vocals, bagpipes, hurdy-gurdy, flutes, melodeons, djembe, derbouka, harp, drums, Provençal flutes, acoustic guitars, bodhran, samples and programming.

Budiman Uun - Banondari - $17.99
(cdRoots# rd-8098)
The vocalist and her ensemble, the Jugula Gamelan Orchestra, present new directions in Jaipongan, a relatively recent style of music in Indonesia that emerged in the 1960s. Budinam Uun started by singing for puppet theatres then recorded five albums with the Karawang Group. She was asked to join the well-known Jugala Orchestra led by Gugum Gumbira, one of the innovators of the new form. The ensemble accompanies her on this, her debut solo effort.

Lalgudi G Jayaraman - Violin Soul - South Indian Classical Music - $17.99
(cdRoots# rd-8121)
Of the four tracks, three represent an homage to a legend of Carnatic music, Thyagaraja (1767-1847), who enjoys an almost saint-like reverence in Southern India as author of over six hundred kritis, a genre of hymn that is regarded as fundamental to the individual’s spiritual enlightenment. Closing the CD is “Kamalaambaam”, another classic this time by Muthuswamy Dikshitar (1775-1835), a thirty minute instrumental cavalcade, proving once again his ability to modulate his violin to imitate the sound of the human voice.

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