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Forrest Hill Records Harmony Music Italy A small label and distribution company intent on creating a new artist-focused business and art model, that is creating a world music catalog of reasonable size, but more importantly, of artistic depth. I am pleased to start carrying a select group of titles from the Forrest Hill label, and will continue to expand our selection throughout the coming year.
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Click on the titles below to learn more about the artists, and to hear some more audio samples.
 Maschi Femmine And Cantanti - Corou De Berra $16.99 (cdRoots# hr-corou) The traditional vocal ensemble from France tackles more modern material by Italian poet/composer Fabrizio de André, although still delivered in a roots style. fRoots says: 'Courou de Berra sing with great precision and their dense harmonies approach a cappella, with the largely string-based accompaniment being little more than decoration. The vocals dominate the recording and are relieved only by the shortest of instrumental passages, which at times can be overpowering, but their voices make a glorious sound.' 
 Rumi - Lu (Luisa Cottifogli) $11.99 (cdRoots# hr-lu) Italian singer and composer Cottifogli returns in 2006 with a new solo project that expands on the explorations started in her superb (and sadly, out of print) Aio nene. Innovative arrnagements that delve into the 21st century via ancient roots are executed by a fine ensemble of piano, percussion, chitarra battente, guitars, flutes, electronics, reeds and strings, all focused on one of Italy's finest young voices. A heavier emphasis on samples and electronics is balanced by chorale vocals, classical strings and a total awareness of the roots of the music, be they sacred or profance. This is a unique and challenging recording that offers new rewards with each listen.
 Marlevar - Marlevar $12.99 (cdRoots# hr-marlevar) The voice of Luisa Cottifogli in the front line was enough for me to fall in love with this recording. This excellent acoustic ensemble displays a world of musical interests from Italy and France (Provence) and creates their own unique sound with these pieces.
 la voce del grano - Nuova Compagnia di Canto Popolare $16.99 (cdRoots# hr-grano) This Italian ensemble writes about their work: 'The voice of the grain is the voice of all the spirits and the forces that once populated nature. The popular culture knew how to distinguish the good spirits from the bad ones, knew how to recognize and to deal nature like as one vital individual. Subsequently man, educated with reason and science, has separated the nature of the anima, throwing to the wind the fairies, the spirits, folletti and gnomi that the once populated their dreams. In the end the 'voice of the grain' is a metaphor that it tells the irrenounceable need of man for poetry and fantasy, evoking images and myth, a new sense of natural things.' Instrumentation includes vocals, guitar, violin, lira pontiaca, cajon, bongos, sonagli, piatti, uans, bass, soprano sax and lots of vocals.
 Sevastopol - Dire Gelt $16.99 (cdRoots# hr-diregelt) Naming themselves after a well-known Yiddish song (Rent Money), this Bologna Italy based kelzmer band has its own unique sound, steeped in the eastern European traditions but with a decidedly personal flair.
 Les Italiens - Les Italiens $16.99 (cdRoots# hr-italiens) A roots-style big band from Italy. They swing, they rock, they root and roll, and the sound moves from tarentella to mambo to ska with fluidity and humor.
 Projeckt Jon - Projeckt Jon $16.99 (cdRoots# hr-jon) A strange one, this. An Italian studio freak pulls together a bunch of traditional Albanian musicisna dn singers and creates something swirling, electronic, dance-hall-trance-dancey weird.
 Malmediterraneo - Cantodiscanto $16.99 (cdRoots# hr-malmed) The 2003 release by this splendid Italian band offers an even deeper look into the broad spectrum of Mediterranean music that they mine to find gems for their for their powerful and beautiful musical devices.
 Medinsud - Cantodiscanto $16.99 (cdRoots# hr-medinsud) Already a house favorite, the sinous, slinky Mediterranean sound of this Italian ensemble is rich and personal, with great musicians, great singers and great ideas.
 Tangerine Café - Luigi Cinque Tarantual Hypertext O'rchestra $16.99 (cdRoots# hr-tangerine) fRoots says: 'definitely deep Mediterranean, even though it draws elements from further afield... staggeringly well integrated and arranged through all its different layers and levels... Wow!'
 les voix des femmes - Giovanni Nuti and Co $16.99 (cdRoots# hr-voix) A song-cycle focused on the voices of Lucia Lippi, Rossella Ruini and Emanuela Berti and arranged by Riccardo Galardini. Nuti has merged classical, popular, jazz and traditional vocal styles in a set of songs, accompanied by guitar, charango, mandolin, acoustic bass, flutes and violins.
 Viagem de um Som - Terra d'Àgua $16.99 (cdRoots# hr-aqua) Terra d'Aqua are the Portuguese duo of Maria Anadon on vocals, and Davide Zaccaria on cello, classical guitar and keyboards
 All Children in School - Various Artists $12.99 (cdRoots# hr-child) A benefit for the Audrey Hepburn Children's Fund and UNICEF's global schooling project features 15 tracks by Ani di Franco, Susheela Raman, Luigi Cinque, Nuova Compagnia di Canto Popolare, Gabin Dabiré, Dulce Pontes, Uxía, Marlevar, Omara Portuondo, Susana Baca, Sainkho, a duet by Teresa Salgueiro and Caetano Veloso, and others
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