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Nube Negra
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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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Nube Negra recordings available at cdRoots
Shouka - Mariem Hassan
$15.99
(cdRoots# nube-1136)
New for 2010 - Mariem Hassan sings with entrancing intimacy and poetry, in a clear message calling for all to fight injustice, discrimination and persecution. All of these new songs have been developed in a close complicity with the poet Lamin Allal and the guitarist, Lamgaifri Brahim. Although very young, he has masered all the subtleties of haul music. And Mariem, with the lack of a appropriate Saharaui guitarist overthe last years, was inspired to finally realize all the songs she has been carrying in her heart for so many years. The CD also contains innovative new ideas: the title song "Shouka" is a cantata developed by using all scales and rhythms of the Haul. The essence of the traditional haul is impressively kept by Vadiya Mint el Hanevi, percussionist, chorus and dance, Lamgaifri Brahim, guitar, Mariem Hassan herself , with the important cooperation of poet Lamin Allal.
As-Sirr - Luis Delgado
$14.99
(cdRoots# nube-1135)
This exploration by noted musician and scholar Luís Delgado centers on the medieval muwaxahas: a poetic form originating in Al-Andalus, which within a short time extended all over the medieval world.
El caballero de Habana - El Curi
$14.99
(cdRoots# nube-1133)
The romance between Cuba and Spanish singer Antonio Curiel (El Curi) remains untouched - ever in love with the island, El Curi naturally turned himself into El Caballero de La Habana expressing all his troubles with the city of his passion. El Curi recorded the entire CD in Cuba with Cuban musicians. This CD is a love song with a sweet Habanera rhythm. 'El Curi's is the wry, knowing gaze of an aging anti-imperialist hipster, wounded romantic and Santería convert, reflecting upon desperate love and the inexorable contradictions of daily life in his beloved Havana. El Curi is at home with the island and its music, and (unlike many come-lately musical tourists) has the good sense to allow his collaborators to do what they do best as he tells his own story.' - RootsWorld
Western Sahara: Remixing Saharaui - Hugo Westerdahl
$14.99
(cdRoots# nube-1134)
CD includes the soundtrack of the film La Puerta Del Sahara as well as remixes and rarities of Saharaui music. Hugo Westerdahl: arrangements, keyboard, guitar Mariem Hassan: vocals Baba Salama: electric & acoustic guitar Nayim Alal: guitar, vocals Leyoad: percussion, vocals Hababa: vocals Alberto Gambino: accordion, keyboard Patxi Pascual: saxophone & flute Josete Ordoñez: flamenco guitar Pablo Salinas: piano
Korrontzi - Korrontzi
$14.99
(cdRoots# nube-1131)
Modern basque folk music. Accordion, mandolin, acoustic guitar, bass, alboka, txistu, drums and percussions) and guests include Aritza Bergara-Iker Diez (txalaparta). The CD also contains a short film by Inaz Fernández and Carlos Juárez, about the lives of the old accordion players (trikitilari).
Desnuda - Anabel Santiago
$17.99
(cdRoots# gal-nube1008)
La tonada, the traditional Asturian vocal music, translated to the 21st century. With the same impressive intensity as the legendary singers of that ancestral style, Anabel Santiago creates new musical settings in which her unique voice unfolds: from contemporary rock, pop and folk sounds to surprising cover versions of La Chicana and Johnny Cash: if Janis Joplin were Asturiana, she would probably sound like that. Her latest album strips off conventions and opens up her music to other styles like tango or country music (like Johnny Cash´s "Folsom Prison Blues"). A unique songer with a special approach to her music.
Estou Vivindo No Ceo - Uxia
$16.99
(cdRoots# nube-estou)
Available again: Uxía Senlle is one of my favorite singers from Spain, and this is my favorite of her many wonderful recordings. She reinterprets songs from Portugal and Galicia with spirit and style, delivering them with a voice of incomparable power and grace. Highly Recommended!
La sal de la Vida - Maria Salgado, Uxia and Rasha
$14.99
(cdRoots# nube-vida)
Three great singers from Sudan, Castile and Galicia
Mariem Hassan Con Leyoad - Mariem Hassan
$14.99
(cdRoots# nube-hassan)
Raw, gritty acoustic-electric music from Saharaui singer Hassan and the remarkable band Leyoad. Electric guitars, havey percussion, a horn section and some throbbing bass lay down an incessant and irresistible groove for Hassan and her backing vocalists to pour their passions into. Touches of acoustic instruments, accordion and such, just add to the surprising sound of this ensemble. fRoots says this is 'the rawest, dirtiest slice of blues I've heard in quite a while.'
Ass, Mass and Pap - Djanbutu Thiossane
$15.99
(cdRoots# nube-thiossa)
Senegalese trio of singers Ass, Mass and Pap N'Diaye with a small ensemble
Sahrauis: Music of Western Sahara - various
$43.99
(cdRoots# nube-sahara)
3 CD box set with a substantial illustrated and illuminating book covers a vast range of the music from the Saharawi, a nomadic tribe in the western Sahara that is working towards independence from Morocco, currently and primarily living in Algerian camps.
Ajvar and Sterz - Natasa Mirkovic-De Ro and Matthias Loibner
$17.99
(cdRoots# gal-nube1004)
Nataša Mirkovic-DeRo is a folk, rock, jazz, opera singer and ethnomusicologist from Sarajevo, Bosnia; Matthias Loibner is a truly innovative hurdy gurdy player from Austria, founded of the band Deishovida and has worked with Ross Daly. They interpret old songs and instrumental pieces from the Balkans - wedding music, dances, ballads, romances, drinking songs, children’s songs and lullabies - and give them exciting, new life but with respect for traditional roots. The duo received an Austrian World Music award in 2005.
Suena mi Tamboo - Tazajo Tamboo
$17.99
(cdRoots# nube-1130)
Carlos Tález and Nestor Guitiérrez, founding members of venezuelan ensemble Huracán de Fuego present the Afro-Venezuelan drum on their first new duo project. Afro-Venezuelan percussion mixed with guitar,bass and piano, are focus on new forms without forgetting its roots. The deep voice of Carlos Tález and powerful percussion of Nestor Gutierrez lead the band through traditional sounds, melodic songs, drum fantazias and a little calypso, reggaeton and cumbia to keep things spicy.
Turbilhao - Zezo y Vanessa
$17.99
(cdRoots# nube-turbo)
Turbilhâo is the first (2005) recording by the duo of guitarist Zezo Ribeiro and the rich voice of Vanessa Boraghian, accompanied by Juan Jamie Leite on upright bass and occasioal contributions from the great Brazilian accordionist Oswaldinho. The feel is breezy and romantic, a mix of north-eastern Spain, a bit of flamenco, and many classic Brazilian elements, sometimes 'in the tradition' and other times in a more contemporary jazz approach.
Let Me Be - Rasha
$17.99
(cdRoots# nube-letmebe)
Rasha reflects on the situation of her people in Sudan - a mixture of homesickness and hope. Due to the civil unrest in her homeland, she moved to Cairo in 1991, and now lives in Spain. The life of the exile is at the center of her work, in 11 songs both political and controversial.
A María Teresa Vera - Various
$17.99
(cdRoots# nube-vera)
A tribute CD to one of the most influential woman of traditional Cuban music. Contemporary performances by Gema y Pável, Jacqueline Castellanos, Omara Portuondo, María Salgado, Argelia Fragoso, Martirio, Uxía, Caridad and Reinaldo Hierrezuelo.
Battango - Lewis Trio
$17.99
(cdRoots# nube-lewis)
A trio of violin, piano, and bass (joined by a percussionist and vocalist on some tracks), this Cuban/Spanish ensemble plays with Carribbean sounds and a touch of the avant garde in a freewheeling jazz-roots experiment on Battangó
Kchaba - Hijas Del Sol
$17.99
(cdRoots# nube-kchaba)
The third album by the singing duo Hijas del Sol is a very cheerful and 'African' album, even though it has more songs in Spanish than any other. Exceptional musicians from Equatorial Guinea like Pablo Tarifa, David Owono, Alex Ikot and Chery Malé seek out the traditional musical base of their home region (Sibeba), then open up to others styles from the African continent and Europe. They run from roots to pop, never losing the core sound of two great voices in harmony.
Medej - Cantos Antiguos Saharauis - Mariem Hassan, Nayim Alal et al
$temp out of stock
(cdRoots# nube-medej)
Medej covers a Moslem tradition of spiritual songs that are dedicated to the prophet Mohammed, praising him and referring to the most important facts of his life: his birth and childhood, how Allah chose him to be his prophet, the journey from Mecca to Medina. Each Islamic territory has adapted these songs medjas to its social and cultural surroundings. The Saharawi songs presented on this disc are interpreted in the mother tongue of the Saharawis, hassanía.
Deseos - Mariem Hassan
$temp out of stock
(cdRoots# nube-1128)
Saharaui singer Mariem Hasan has become the representative voice for her exiled people throughout the world. After a number of collaborations with musicians from Africa and Europe, Deseo presents her in a more personal forum, accompanied by her brother Boika on guitar and percussionist Leila, under the direction of arranger and guitarist Baba Salama, three great musicians coming out of the refugee camps of Tinduf. These raw and wonderful songs sing of dispair and hope, love and beauty in the face of hardship, and the acompaniment is equal to their force.
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