Clearance Sale
PLEASE READ THESE TERMS:
CDs are brand new. These sale items can be combined with any other items in the catalog for an order. Use the shopping cart. No e-mail or postal orders accepted. Credit card and PayPal payments only (no checks, money orders, etc). Supplies are limited at these prices. No returns, no refunds. Blah blah, bla bla.
(Note: Sale CDs shipped outside of the US may be sent without the plastic jewel boxes. All notes and inserts will be included)
|
Also see: Disappearing CDs: things that I have only one copy left of and will not be restocking. Get them while they are still here! Used CDs in great condition LP Vinyl
Sale items at good prices Search for Sale Items
Meet You There - Oysterband
- 13.99 Carambole - Twalseree - 13.99 Elegant Flemish instrumental folk music played on a huge variety of ancient instruments by this quartet - bagpipes, hurdy-gurdy, violins, krumhorns, flutes, accordions, guitar, percussion, dulcimer, clarinet and much more. Flemish Folk Music - Volume 1 and 2 - Het Brabants Volksorkest - 13.99 The Brabant Traditional Music Band of Belgium presents Flemish folk dance music in a formal 'chamber' style Kadril 1 - Kadril - 13.99 April Blossoms - Rim Banna - 14.99 Songs from Palestine dedicated to all the children is the subtitle of this unique recording by singer Rim Banna. Again joined by a phenomenal group of jazz and popular musicians from Norway and the middle east - and on some tracks a small chorus of children from both countries - she forges a powerful contemporary music focused on the trials and joys of live in Palestine. Hjertnuser - Jan Eggum - 14.99 Norwegian singer-songwriter is known as "the face of the melancholy" with songs of lovelorn lives, loneliness and sorrow, and occasionally a social critic. Accompanied by a small ensemble of percussion, bass, occasional horns, he can move run from raw to schmaltzy, from pop rock to jazz. (Songs sung in Norwegian) Tul a Vizen - Dresch Quartet - 11.99 More brilliant jazz from Hungary, deep in traditional roots, high on the creative scale. featureing Mihaly Dresch on saxophone, flutes, cimbalom, and vocals, with an ensemble of drums, bass and Ferenc Kovacs on violin and trumpet a part - Makam - 12.99 Besh o droM - Besh o droM - 12.99 New music from Hungary. The music is a strange as the name, a mix of traditional Gypsy and Hungarian folk roots with an almost 'punk' nature, almost all acoustic and yet full of electricity. Train 7.40 - Budapest Klezmer Band - 11.99 Besides traditional Jewish compositions, the album contains pieces from the Budapest production of'Fiddler on the roof'. Csango-Hungarian Bagpipes of Moldavia - Various Hungarian Artists - 12.99 Field recordings made by Györgey Stuber from 1973-2001 of the bagpipe music of Moldavia, Hungary, includes many kinds of pipes and whistle players Sound and Vision: Live (red) - Korai Oram - 12.99 "... Their ability to fuse psychedelic rock, Eastern-European folk influences and shamanist tradition is stunning. The ingredients of this rich mixture are tribal percussion, pagan flutes, shamanist trance rock, ambient soundscapes, bizarre Hungarian voices harmonising with burning guitar leads; it's all in there. The music of Korai Öröm is overwhelming, visionary and at the same time humane, natural, mindexpanding... real earth psychedelics." - CROHINGA WELL (Belgium) Outlaws of the City -Nagyvárosi bujdosók - Ferenc Kiss - 12.99 The Outlaws of the City is a thematic or as it is nowadays called a concept album. In the songs, lyrics and performance I used a lot from what I have learnt in the past 25 years about folk cultures, and the way we can use them today. The prosaic supplements, which I call texts that accompany the songs, cannot be sung, but they all relate, at some places closely, at others loosely, to the imagery of the songs. They make each other complete. They are about me, and my loved ones, and about those who can never be loved. Memories about my generation and the hiding. My childhood, and school, fears, the recognition and the fire, music and water, the respect of traditions and rebellion, landscapes and people, tales and travels, the myth and bureaucracy, duty and love, self destruction and attachments, home and the native land, the rustling of skirts, our fate, the child's eyes, the smell of books, the wings of freedom and of course happiness, joy, wine and dance, and the language of the Bible and the streets – New Patria 16: village music from Ghymes - Zerkula Janos keservesei - 12.99 Village music from Ghymes, Hungary, performed by fiddler/singer Zerkula, accompanied by Regina Fiko on gardon (percussive cello). Recorded in 2000 by Fono Records, live in their concert hall, these are the real deal, true traditional tunes by true roots musicians. Nicly packaged as a small, hardbound book with complete notes and song texts in Hungarian and English. Music from the village Nagysarmas' - Új Pátria - New Patria Series Vol 18 - 12.99 Original Village Music of the Transylvanian Heath - Traditional folk music from the village of Nagysarmas, Mezoseg-Kalotaszeg, Transylvania - ancient Hungarian folk, city Gypsy and Romanian folk music. Sereny Magyaros - various artists - 10.99 Whistle music from Moldavia, Hungary In the wake of Bartok in Anatolia - Janos Sipos - 12.99 Traditional music collected near Adana Reveszem, Reveszem - Dresch Dudas Mihaly Quartet - 12.99 Jazz quartet explores Hungarian folk themes Cigany Torveny / Romani Kris (Gypsy Law) - Ferenc Kiss - 12.99 Music from the film by Bence Gyongyossy Oytsres (Treasures). Klezmer Music 1908-1996. R.Ottens, J.Rubin - various - 13.99 In RootsWorld, Stacy Philips wrote: "In this period of rediscovery, revitalization and reinterpretation of music of the Jewish people of pre-Holocaust Europe, occasional infusions from the source help keep the music centered. In this latest klezmer anthology, producers Joel Rubin and Rita Ottens have included six rare examples of pre-World War I recordings from Europe. These include a couple of pieces from the Euro-Yiddish theater that have some melodic relationship (but not in presentation) to klezmer. Additionally there are two fascinating pieces by the State Ensemble for Jewish Folk Music of the Ukraine recorded in 1937 and 1939, along with one example of an obscure offshoot of the klezmer tradition, that of the Chassidic community in Israel. It will be very instructive to all fans of klezmer to compare the playing styles of these with that of musicians who recorded in America between the world wars. The greats of the first generation emigres to the United States are also here: Naftule Brandwine (fabulous, Geej - El Hadj N'Diaye - 15.99 Songlines describes this Senegalese singer's work as having a "gripping blend of haunting melodies, floating guitars and inspired lyrics." El Hadj brings together far-flung strands of Senegalese tradition and identity in an unique musical career. His songs are informed by a deep knowledge of and compassion for those who are suffering and neglected in Africa, and he writes with a literary flair born of his own experience as an author and actor. From its most tender whisper to its most anguished gut cry, the voice of El Hadj is a marvel. This is mostly a gentle acoustic album, a subtle but powerful letter from Senegal to the world. Highly recommended. Music from the Auvergne, France - Café Charbons Ensemble - 11.99 FRANCE. Music from the Auvergne. Café Charbons Ensemble. The Adventures of Prince Rama (cd/DVD) - VA - 22.99 Presented as a beautiful hardcover book with CD and DVD, this set captures an extravagant spectacle of dance, music and masks, transported from Bali to France performed in Lyons in 2007. A fifty-man Kecak choir delivers the famed "monkey chant," a hypnotic gamelan score, the sumptuous costumes, masks and specially created lighting effects. The package contains an hour-long CD with the musical highlights of the performance, and the entire two-hour show can be watched on the enclosed DVD, along with three bonus features: a portrait of the Balinese musicians and dancers who took part in the production, a behind-the-scenes look at the role of the "dalang" (the all-important narrator who also gives a different voice to each of the protagonists), and a quick refresher on the Ramayana epic which serves as the basis for the plot. China: Album of the Prunus Hermitage - Chen Leiji - 12.99 The record label says: Chen Leiji performs solo qin zither recordings from the Zhucheng school (Shandong, N.E. China). The music from the Prunus Hermitage was written in 1931 and the collection of compositions heard here is the last remaining example of this unique style. During the Cultural Revolution, the qin was banned as an 'aristocratic' instrument. Leiji began to study the instrument with Master Gong Yi at age 9 and is now considered the instrument's leading exponent. Also trained in western classical music, Leiji contributes to the rebirth of this thousand-year-old instrument by taking part in the creation of contemporary classical works such as the concerto for instrument of silence written for him in 1996 by Chen Qigang, and by performing with Nieuw Ensemble of Amsterdam. Burkina Faso: Lobi Country - Buur Xylophones - various - 12.99 Music of the Lobi people of southern Burkina Faso, Northern Ghana and Ivory Coast. This culture was moderately successful in resisting colonization and remain a relatively closed society today, so their music maintains a certain level of 'authenticity' and tradition today. This album features music to accompany funerals and initiation ceremonies, played on buur xylophones. Yiddish Songs of Tenderness and Fury - Flammer, Leiser, Barreaux - 13.99 This album of popular Yiddish songs brings together musical selections which originated in the Jewish communities scattered across pre-World War II Europe. This music served to accompany daily events, both joyous and sad, of a flourishing culture that vanished in the conflagrations of 20th Century history. By embellishing upon arrangements of these unwritten melodies, each of the three artists has enriched this performance with his own culture and traditions, reaffirming the place of Yiddish music in the cultural landscape of today. Liverpool - Gernika - Jaber Muguruza and L.I.P.A - 13.99 Szivetekben orizzetek - Songs of Asik Veysel - Kobzos Kiss Tamas - Erdal Salikoglu - 14.99 Beyond Babylon - Paul Brody - 9.99 Jewish music recorded in Berlin Song Singer - Bram Taylor - 9.99 Brit folk sionger from Leigh in Lancashire. Steve Lawrence on percussion and fret instruments, Wendy Weatherby on Cello, Iain Anderson on Fiddle, Elly Beurskens (guitar, Bass and vocals) and Bruno van Hoekon Dobro, mandolin and banjo, Bob Hallard on electric and bass guitars and bass vocals and vocalists Linda and Susan Adams. Two Faiths: One Voice - Gerard Edery and Maria Krupoves - 10.99 xyz The Greatest Hits of Polka - Jimmy Sturr - 10.99 really, the greatest hits from Eastern Europe to Western Texas A la demande generale - Tarace Boulba - 10.99 xyz Jazz-Mugham Bridges: Live in Baku - Mike Del Ferro, Stian Carstensen, with Azerbaijani Traditional Musicians - 10.99 Jazz encounters with the traditional music of Azerbaijan Djerelon - Prince Diabate - 10.99 xyz It was on a market day: Two - various artists - 10.99 traditional English country singing Jenseits vom Ende der Zeit - Ballycotton - 13.99 The artists (guitars, violin, accordion, percussions, bass and overtone singing) say: "Instrumental compositions and sophisticated arrangements take the listener on the fantastical journey which immerses him into a world of legends and myths, pictures of an unforeseen world appear." Total Chansons Francaises 1935-1950 - various French (4 CD set) - 17.99 (note: brand new, shrink-wrapped, but cased is cracked - overseas orders will be shipped without plastic box) - 4 CDs, 100 songs featuring all the hits and much more. Charles Trenet, Edith Piaf, Maurice Chevalier, Luis Mariano, Tino Rossi, Charles Aznavour, Yves Montand, Jean Gabin, and more and more and more. Dark Thoughts - Sigurdur Flolsason, Daniel Nolgård and The Norrbotten Big Band - 12.99 Swedish big band jazz: listen Duniya - Mohamed Hassan - 10.99 Twarab legend from Grande Comore.' Tarab music for vocalist, ud and ensemble from the Indian Ocean island of Comoros. Concierto en Directo: Etnosur, Encuentro de Culturas - Eccentric Sound System - 13.99 PAL format DVD - 90 minutes of concert performances plus 40 minutes of extras. In Spanish Gyspy Brass Legends (PAL-DVD) - Fanfare Ciocarlia - 16.99 The Story of the Band' includes a one hour concert in Berlin, the one hour documentary film "Iag Bari" plus various other text and grpahic goodies Shirat HaBakashot (PAL DVD) - Center of Jewish Poems and Piyyut in Ashdod - 18.5 DVD of Shirat HaBakashot (Song of Requests) - a collection of piyyutim (Jewish liturgical poems) sung by the synagogue attendees, mainly on Shabbat (Saturday) and Jewish holidays. The Bakashot prayer on this DVD is sung during the Jewish New Year High Holidays, and is performed by Rabbi David Edery and the "Center of Jewish Poems and Piyyut in Ashdod" choir. The singing is in the a-capella style (with no instrumental accompaniment), while the singers are sited at tables laid out with delicacies - all this in the best Jewish tradition requirement. The viewer of this DVD experiences the Jewish tradition and holiday spirits, as if he is present in the synagogue himself. (PAL format DVD) Legend - Edith Piaf - 14.99 The legendary torch singer in a 2 CD retrospective includes all the hits (La Rose en Vie, L'etranger, etc) and lots more. 2 CDs, 40 songs. Live 2009 - Wayne Toups and Zydecajun - 12.99 13 live Cajun rock tracks from the accordionist and his Zydecajuns from 2009 Abrecaminos - Maria Salgado - 11.99 María Salgado returns to her Castillian roots, mixing them with Eastern and Sephardic elements and new compositions in a splendid work of delicate turns and elegant musical arrangements, embossed with the peacefulness of Bierzo. Those Pleasant Days - Stefan Grossman - 14.99 A 2 CD retrospective set covering his 8 albums on the Transatlantic label - one disc focuses on the songs, the second on the guitar mastery. Nicely packaged, with sharp liner notes by Colin Harper. A must have for fans of Grossman, the guitar and idiosyncratic American roots music. Next Stop... Soweto Vol. 2: Soultown, R and B, Funk and Psych Sounds From The Townships 1969-76 - various - 12.99 Second of a 3-part series exploring underground South African music during the late '60s and '70s. Touches on mbaqanga and jazz artists who dabbled with soul and funk fusions during the early '70s: the Mgababa Queens and Mahotella Queens, and great SA jazz combo The Heshoo Beshoo Group, more. 22 tracks. Nigeria 70 - Sweet Times - Various - 12.99 Afro-funk, Highlife and Juju from 1970s Lagos' features Moneymen, Super 5 International, Victor Olaiya, Bola Johnson, Sina bakare and a whole lot of other great names you won't know but ought to. Chants et Danses de Norvege - various - 15.99 Norwegian songs and dances, a compilation of music originally released by the Heilo and Sunset labels includes Kritin Braten Berg, Tone Hulbaekmo, Dalkopa, many more. 28 tracks Atipico - Luis Baptis - 14.99 Portuguese musician plays 14 different guitars: classical guitar, Portuguese mandolin, Portuguese guitar, Braguesa guitar, Ukulele, Da terra guitar, Beiroa guitar, Toeira guitar, Campaniça guitar, Rajão guitar, Amarantina guitar, Wire strings guitar from Madeira and Terceira guitar from the Azores and electric guitar - and the mix of music styles, from classical, traditional to contemporary. Accompanied bya small ensemble of strings and percussion. Voice of the Taragot - Ghorghe Trambitas - 15.99 A Romanian player of the taragot (a double reed instrument ) born and raised in the heart of Transylvania, Gheorghe Trambitas is one of the foremost exponents of the instrument. By the time he was in his teens Gheorghe and his brother were leading one of the hottest wedding bands in Transylvania. Playing every weekend - with weddings lasting until 6 AM the next morning, and continuing for three or four days – gave Gheorghe a chance to seriously hone his skills. At the same time, Gheorghe was performing on stage and receiving prestigious awards in folk music competitions in Romania and elsewhere in Europe. In 1990, as the old regime in Romania was crumbling, Gheorghe came to the United States where he has continued his performing career to much acclaim. Gheorghe collaborateshere with one of the finest folk orchestras in Romania. Storas - Mary Jane Lamond - 15.99 2005 recording of Scottish Gaelic songs by the Cape Breton Island singer. Hankapuy - Oki with Umeko Ando - 15.99 The Japanese/Ainu artist plays the tonkori, a long, thin stringed instrument from the Ainu tradtion, accompanied by Umeko Ando on vocals and Kiyoshi Suzuki on percussion. Neither modern nor traditional, this is original music from ancient roots. Fra folk te' folk - Knut Kjok and Dag Garden - 13.99 Knut Kjøk (violin) and Dag Gården (accordion) lend a new energy to the traditional tunes of Norway. World Citizen - Akasa - 9.99 This powerful female vocal group from Australia performs original music with a political message, a global aural outlook and a real sense of rhythm and groove. Fans of Sweet Honey In The Rock will find an immediate kinship. Florina - Aksak - 12.99 Balkan/Gypsy fusion band merges the acoustic sounds of kaval, flutes, accordion, clarinet, viola, violin, sax, double bass, guitar, oud, percussion and vocals into a new and powerful folk hybrid. Saatu - Kirile Loo - 11.99 Estonian singer presents music based on so-called regi-song. This is considered to be the oldest style of traditional Estonian music. The regi-verse song-form (verse in the Kalevala-metre) is common to the majority of Balto-Finnic cultures. It is presumed to date back to the 1st Millenium BC. Unaccompanied songs and pieces accompanied by kannel (psaltry), bagpipes, reeds, jews harp, guitar and percussion. Princesa de la Naturaleza (Nature's Princess) - Maria Marquez - 10.99 The US-based singer from Venezuela finally hits the mark on this 2004 recording. Acompanied by a great band (including Omar Sosa, John Santos and Gustavo Ovalles) and self-producing a set of unusual and often unexpected arrangements, Marquez has found the right framework for her unique and beautiful voice, flirting with folk, jazz and even a touch of the avant garde. Even an old chestnut like Besame Mucho gets a new lease on life in the hands of this able ensemble and this first class vocalist. Sana som vi - Dan Berglund - 9.99 Siberia - Krantz - 9.99 Luma - Oddjob - 9.99 Once Around - Emil Strandberg, Jonas Ostholm - 9.99 piano and trumpet Música Galega Hoxe - Various artists - 13.99 A wonderful compilation from Fol Música label with the cream of Galician roots and celtic music talent: Mercedes Peón, Cristina Pato and Rosa Cedrón, A Banda das Crechas, BellónMaceiras Quintet, Sondeseu Folk Orchestra, Guadi Galego and Vaamonde Lamas e Romero, Fuxan Os Ventos, Bonovo, Susana Seivane and Uxia. Discover the rich and creative music scene of Galicia, presented in a deluxe digipack, at a nice price. Arran: cultura de resistencia 2 (2CD set) - Various artists - 12.99 A 2 CD set with 41 tracks by a wild assortment of Spanish bands and artists. Rock en espanol by Banda Bassotti Fermin Muguruza - Pirat's Sound Sistema - Gadegang - Net Flanders - Malos Vicios - Skarnio - - La Caixa Fosca and more. Hepta - Berroguetto - 13.99 The third album from one of the most acclaimed Galician bands. Komunikando - Os Diplomaticos - 11.99 'Os Diplomaticos have been going since 1989, getting mixed up quite early on with Mano Negra and subsequently Manu Chao. Put them in a bracket that runs from those names to Madness - accordeons, brass, punky ska rhythms, catchy upbeat rootsy songs... guest appearances from Susana Seivane's gaitas, Uxia's vocals, African female vocal group Batuko Tabanka, members of Berrogüetto and many more...' - fRoots Viva quien sabe querer - Eliseo Parra - 12.99 (Long Live He Who Knows How to Love), the latest recording by Spain's Eliseo Parra, is a sterling example of both successful contemporary presentation of traditional themes and the masterful use of diverse recording techniques.' - RootsWorld Aral - Tenareze - 12.99 The five musicians Tenarèze use the theme of water, one of the main political and humanitarian issues of the twenty-first century. With their original instruments (most of which they conceived of and built themselves) and songs sung in the Occitan language, they fly over the borders of imaginary lands to draw their own personal map of the world. Marc Anthony (electro-acoustic hurdy-gurdy), Laurent Rousseau (guitar), Alain Cadeillan (vocals, alboka, bagpipes and invented instruments), Olivier Hestin (percussion) and Bernard Subert (clarinet, bass clarinet, bagpipes and water-drums). Sunday Monday: palm wine music from Ghana - Kwabena Nyama - 12.99 Ghana: musique de vin de palme: Nyama plays a rugged, rural form of palm wine music, the so called Akan-blues with lyrics rich in proverbs from the Akan culture. The singer and guitarist is primarily accompanied by percussion and voices. Stagioni - Lucilla Galeazzi - 11.99 A compilation of songs by Umbrian singer Lucilla Galeazzi with Massimo Nardi, guitar; Massimo Carrano, percussion; Antonio Ramous, cello/Salvatore Zambataro, accordion. Most of these songs are on her Lunario and Cuore di Terre CDs already available at cdRoots, but for newcomers to this wonderful Italian singer's work, this is a great collection of 18 acoustic gems. Kurbits: Vol 1 - Young fiddlers from Dalarna - 12.99 On Kurbits seven young folk musicians from Dalarna have the opportunity to show what the new generation of fiddlers and singers from Dalarna are capable of producing. Jonas Hjalmarsson, Anders Almlöf, Ida Täpp, Jenny Täpp, Zara Helje and Mattias Helje excel in a selection of fiddle solos, duets, trios and group playing. These are interspersed with songs by Sofia Sandén, whose voice has a rich and sincere tone. The tunes and songs are old and have passed the test of time, but in the hands of these adept young musicians they feel as fresh as ever. Di Gamlaste Bidana - Christer Lundh - 14.99 Folks songs from Skane, southern Sweden, sung by Lundh and accompanied on fiddle, harp, bagpipes, crumhorn, flutes, guitar etc. Listen1 Listen2 Minorities of the central highland and coast - Music From Vietnam Vol 5 - 10.99 These recordings were made with a modern mobile digital studio by Swedish Radio in the Central Highlands and on the coast. The music is primarily vocal, accompanied by drums, flutes, horns, shawms, bamboo and porcelain instruments, with a strong emphasis on gongs handed down through many generations. Piripicchio - Addosso Agli Scalini - 13.99 The band from Puglia returns in 2006 with another modern recording about uneasiness of culture clash, and the poetry and rhythm in their encounter of various cultures. In ten songs they present a trip through the past to discover the feelings, memories and places that define the present. Alhambra - Gabriele Coen and Atlante Sonoro - 13.99 Gabriele Coen is one of the founders of Klezroym. This is his second solo album with the Atlante Sonoro project.Featuring Pietro Lussu on piano, Marco Loddo on bass and Luca Caponi on drums, Gabriele Coen (soprano and tenor sax and clarinet) is exploring fascinating places the border lands between the sunny landscapes of Mediterranean music and contemporary jazz. This project also includes Lutte Berg on guitar, playing on two different tracks. The different pages of this Atlante Sonoro are Hebrew music from eastern Europe, the Mediterranean, various European jazz traditions and the arabesques of Alhambra. Soffi - Mario Crispi - 13.99 Sicilian musician Mario Crispi (one fo the foundign members of Agricantus) has researched the wind instruments of the world: the ney (Persian, Turkish and Arabian), the selijefloyte from Lapland, the North African zummara, the Sardinian launeddas, the Egyptian arghoul, the Balkan clarinet, the Andean antara and sikus, the Turkish duduk, the Sicilian marranzanu, the Australian didjeridoo. Città Sottili - InChanto - 13.99 The members of InChanto share a common passion for ancient and traditional music, developing a personal repertoire, inspired by their place of origin: Tuscany, a deeply rooted, culture, and also a land receptive to other cultures that have been absorbed and interwoven into the Tuscan sensibility. These songs do not come from formal research or philosophy, but from the desire to offer original music, rooted both in European folk, and in the musical and literary culture of the Italian Renaissance. This 'alchemic sound,' strained through a Mediterranean sensitivity, evokes atmospheres balanced between old and modern, popular and cultured, in which the texts, composed in various languages or inspired by medieval lyrics, are very important. Sceni - Klezroym - 13.99 This outstanding klezmer ensemble is based in Italy, and they forage into the world of Jewish music, tinged with contemporary jazz, deeply rooted in Eastern European and Mediterranean musical traditions. The group plays musicthat crosses borders and mixes different cultures effortlessly, and on this recording they are graced with two guest musicians that complete the circle: the Arab artists Karam Abdelmagid (oud) and Abdullah Mohamed (darbouka). Pamunt Rom Group - Pamunt Rom Group - 13.99 The Pamunt Rom Group includes Ionut Gugulan (accordion and vocals), Florin Barby (guitar and vocals) , Adrian Nan (stand-up bass), Castel Ciortan (accordion), and Laurentiy Dinca (clarinet), with Ciccio Merolla (percussion) and Riccardo Veno (soprano saxophone). The trademark sound is the furious interplay between the two accordions, or the accordions and the reeds. Ola - Joaquin Diaz - 9.99 accordion/merengue Sofienberg Variations - Christian Wallumrod - 13.99 Music of character and quiet strength. In pianist/composer Wallumrød's newest group, the strongly individual sounds of trumpet improviser Arve Henriksen and folk fiddler Nils Økland are blended to create new, fresh colours. Saxophonist Trygve Seim also makes a guest appearance. A Man About A Horse - Steve Tibbetts - 13.99 American musician's eighth ECM release continunes his explorations of sound and aural space Fugace - Gianluigi Trovesi Ottetto - 13.99 The Italian reed man in an all-Italian octet that celebrates the spirit of early jazz in a thoroughly contemporary context. Chants, Hymns and Dances - Tsabropoulos and Lechner - 13.99 Compositions by Gurdjieff and Vassilis Tsabropoulos, performed by pianist Tsabropoulos and Anja Lechner on violincello. the pieces are boundary crossing experiments in multi-cultural classicism and contemporary minimalism, often mournful, occasionally spritely. In cerca di cibo - Trovesi and Coscia - 13.99 duets for clarinet and accordion. Italy (ECM-2001) Ulyses' Gaze - Eleni Karaindrou and Kim Kashkasian - 13.99 Music for the film by Theo Angelopolous Xenos - Lakis and Achwach - 11.99 Austria-based Greek musician Lakis Jordanopoulos´ songs are about uprooting and exile, like the songs of the Greek Rembetes, who learned to laugh and cry at the same time. The music he creates with the ensemble Achwach is the neo-Rembetiko of a Vienna-based international band, a music about happiness and sadness, love, loneliness and despair. Singing we come down the mountains - Patara Georgika - 13.99 Traditional Songs of Georgia from the oral tradition. This polyphonic music has been taught and handed down from one generation to the next one without notes, simply by ear. The table songs, wedding songs, round dance songs, dance songs for individual and pair dances as well as comical songs are rather different in their music structure; the regional styles, however, are also very different in their character and differentiation of voices. In general, all these songs have the polyphonic or three-part singing in common. The overtones are usually, according to tradition, performed by soloists, with one of them, most frequently the second voice, starting singing. The soloists are a counterpart to the group of banebi who uniformly perform the third voice.... Traditional Songs from a Georgian Village - Ensemble Odila - 13.99 The 5 singers come from one single village, Kitskhi in the Imereti region in West Georgia. The recorded songs belong to the local folklore; just a few can be found in the repertoire of other ensembles. Odila performs in the traditional manner: The first and second voice (which often introduces the song) is executed by a soloist, the third voice (bani in Georgian) normally by the group of the other singers in unison, in some cases also by a soloist. Some songs are accompanied by Chonguri (stringed instrument) and doli (drum). Suonato coi piedi! - Andrea Capezzuoli e Compagnia - 14.99 Virtually unknown in Italy, the traditional music of Quebec is a kind of mélange of Scot-Irish music with French songs. Alongside the fiddle, mandolin, guitar and piano, its typical instruments are the melodeon, the oldest kind of accordion, which is still found in Quebec and Louisiana, and... the musicians' feet, which make for a powerful rhythmic background in wild dances. Andrea Capezzuoli, who has always been very fond of this music, has collected a handful of classics of this genre and made a fizzy but at the same time accurate CD despite what its title would suggest (an old Italian refrain says that you do bad if you do using your feet). Trasudando - A3 - 14.99 This work has roots deep in the tradition, in the culture where women and men, elders and children, briganti and cumpari have all told their stories. This band from the Province of Bari, with their maiden discographic voyage, sails along the infamous A3, the motorway connecting Salerno and Reggio Calabria, one of the most conspicuous symbols of a cultural and territorial panorama that clashes with the pride and the desire for redemption of southern Italy. Migrare - La Moresca Antica - 14.99 Here's a new chapter in the research into traditional maritime music: following 'Marinaresca' and 'Li Turchi alla marina,' the leaders Umberto Mosca and Angelo Maffezzoli along with their artistic crew give us a fully ripened work with the themes of men and music and migration by sea. Special guests include Lucilla Galeazzi and Jack Coutts. Unknown people - Terrae - 16.99 The new production of the band from Messina tells stories of some of the most significant and harrowing moments of Sicilian history. A mature record, with a strong musical and emotional impact, in which electronic sounds, electric guitars, and female voices are added to the basic elements of the quartet - violin, double bass, classic guitar, and percussion. It is true to the roots, true to tradition, but also knows Sicily is today, not just yesterday. In Cerca di Grane - Ariondassa - 14.99 Traditional music and songs of the Piedmont by an ensemble whose musicians have played with some of the most important bands of the region (Tre Martelli, Ombra Gaja, La Kinkerne, La Ciapa Rusa) Cercando (ES5310 - Epinfrai - 10.99 Epinfrai is the project of four young musicians working on the repertoire of piffero, a sort of oboe used in the musical tradition of the northern part of Apennines, in the area called of the four counties. Starting from a deep knowledge of the development in the tradition of piffero in the last two centuries, once played with the Musa (a sort of bagpipe), then with the Italian accordion, Epinfrai is trying to give a new life to the tradition with the use of stylistic solutions taken by jazz, language that belongs to the musical training of some members of the band. Enfants terribles - E.Y.F.O. - 10.99 The European Youth Folk Orchestra are the 'Enfants terribles'. This is a live recording of the first European youth orchestra of traditional music. Ottoni and settimini (ES5306 - La Lionetta - 12.99 La Lionetta has long been one of the most popular and appreciated among the Italian folk -revival bands, as well as the less orthodox. Their first album, Danze e ballate dell'area celtica italiana published in 1978, was warmly welcome both by critics and public. A couple of years after their second work Il gioco del diavolo, the band reduced its activity until it stopped. La Lionetta was formed again in 1995 starting anew their repertoire which is characterized on one hand by autonomous composition of music and texts and on the other hand by strengthen and unconventional attitude towards tracks. Macario, Parole E Musica - Raffaella De Vita and Roberto Cognazzo - 10.99 Macario, Words and Music presents the comic music of Turin-born singer Macario, called 'the comic who fell from the Moon.' These are songs taken from stage revues and films from 1938-1954, performed by vocalist De Vita and pianist Cognazzo, accompanied on some songs by guitarist Silvano Biolatti. Rev - Meikenut - 10.99 A great new band that mixes tradition and innovation. The record presents Piedmontese traditional melodies in new arrangements Territoris amables (ES5318 - Urbalia Rurana and Maurizio Martinotti - 10.99 The best band from the Pais Valencian (Spain) and the leader of the well known group La Ciapa Rusa (Piedmont/Italy), involved together in a new project. mot. - Snekka - 14.99 The 2004 Kaustinen Folk Music Festival's Ensemble of the Year is on CD at last, in a stirring set of orginal instrumental ballads, jazzy grooves and agressive new-acoustic folk. Tero Hyväluoma (violin), Markus Luomala (accordion), Olli Seikkula (guitar) and Tarmo Anttila (double bass) offer a smart new look at the Suomi roots. Fans of both Maria Kalaniemi and Hedningarna will find common ground. Konsta - Tallari - 12.99 A tribute to the great Konsta Jylhä Folk Roots, New Routes - Shirley Collins and Davy Graham - 12.99 Another classic record from 1965. An experimental recording conceived by Austin John Marshall bringing together Shirley's haunting traditional song with Davy's guitar improvisations. Folk Roots, New Routes opened the door for Fairport Convention's Liege and Lief and Pentangle's debut. For this carefully remastered, slipcased edition Fledg'ling have restored the original artwork, added a new sleeve-note essay and previously unpublished photographs. Rubai - Flook - 13.99 The 2002 recording from one of Celtic music's great acoustic bands Mais d'Ou Vient le Vent - eLZef - 12.99 Here is a carnival of sounds from France from a brass band with accordion that has some real bad attitude, some great humor and top-notch musicianship. This is tossed about with North African sounds, French chanson and musette, analog-electronic effects in what they call bidouillages. Unique and unclasifiable. Musiques des prefectures autonomes - L'Attirail - 10.99 xyz Canciones Tradicionales de Catalunya - Maria Laffitte - 12.99 A collection of songs recorded live and 'on location' in Barcelona. Laffitte is an authentic trovadora who specializes in singing traditional songs of Catalunya, Spain. Navidad traditional Espanola - Various artists - Spain - 14.99 Colección de Villancicos y otros Cantos Populares Navideños Mad World Blues - Pete Morton - 10.99 Donegal Rain - Andy M. Stewart - 8.99 scotland UK england britain Rosa Mundi - June Tabor - 10.99 The 2001 release investigates songs of the garden in Tabor's usual diverse outlook and musicial styles. sprell Levande - Mari Eggen and Helene Høye - 14.99 1993 recording by two of Norway's best young fiddlers. Valkyrien Allstars - Valkyrien Allstars - 16.99 Three Norwegian fiddlers join forces to bring the tradition to life - Ola Hilmen, Tuva Livsdatter Syvertsen and Erik Sollid, joined by a full band, push the music into pop, rock, jazz and even some traditional folk songs. Listen and Listen Taus - Sigrid Moldestad - 16.99 2007 release based on ancient stories about marginalized female fiddlers. The recording offered interpretations of traditional music as well as songs composed by Moldestad herself. Ferd - Knut Hamre - 15.99 Solo works for the hardinfele (hardangar fiddle) by one of Norway's most repsected fiddlers. Harnihomba - Harnihomba - 13.99 Modern folk from Norway, new ararnagements of traditional songs and original pieces performed with bagpipes, clarinet, fiddle, guitars, bass, percussion and saxophones. Himalaya Blues - Reiersrud, Jacobsen and Vajra - 13.99 Norwegian guitarist Knut Reiersrud, flute player Hans Fredrik Jacobsen and the traditional group Vajra from Nepal present a mixture of traditional Norwegian, American and Nepalese music, recorded in Katmandu. Hibernation - Terje Isungset - 14.99 The 2009 edition of the Norwegian percussionist's "all ice" music, performed on ephemeral instruments made of ice. With Sara Marielle Gaup, Peter Paelinck, Eilif Gundersen Tigerlily - Tigerlily - 14.99 This young Norwegian band fuses and melds folk, rock, ambient grooves and jazz into an unusual whole, driven by Elisabeth Vatn's bagpipes and clarinets, Harald Skullerud's percussion, and Olav Torget's plucked strings (including guitar, bass, banjo Senegambian konting and Chinese moon guitar). Music from Rodrigues, Mauritius - V.A. REUNION - 11.99 REUNION. Rodrigues. Mauritius. Creole Islands, Indian Ocean. Musique Arabo-Andalouse - Atrium Musicae, Paniagua - 9.99 Mid-priced collection of music from the Medieval Spanish/Arab intersection, in a collection of 24 traditional songs conducted by Gregorio Paniagua Sicily: Folk Music - Various - 13.99 Sicilie: musique populaires - The radio France recordings of work songs, folk songs and religious songs from Sicily. Nha Sentimento - Cesaria Evora - 14.99 Cesaria ventures further afield than ever before, twisting Arabic musical traditions into bluesy, sinuous compositions from some of Cape Verde's best songwriters. Amarte - Manuel d'Oliveira and Mediterraneo - 9.99 This CD by the Portuguese guitarist was recorded live in 2005, in Praça de Santiago, Guimarães. The musicians of the ensemble Mediterrâneo are José Lima (acoustic bass), David Leão (flute and bagpipe), Mário Gonçalves (drums) and Rui Ferreira (piano). Oj wi fajn - Trielen and Jutta Carstensen - 13.99 The energy of klezmer music combined with the inherently musical flavor of the Yiddish language, can portray the full range of human emotion. This unusual ensemble of wind instruments is joined by the talented singer Jutta Carstensen for an exhilarating collection of Yiddish and Klezmer music, rich with ornamentation and improvisatory spontaneity. Time Was Time Is - Ray Barretto - 9.99 Barretto takes Latin-Jazz back to its roots, and then combines it with the vocabulary of today, and with his septet present a new twist in the ever fertile dialogue between New York and the Caribbean on this 2005 release. Tempo de Musica (2 CD set) - Baden Powell - 25.99 Well-known recordings combined with rare live tracks and private recordings of the early sixties. The booklet includes rare pictures and a index for tracks and keywords. Mostly guitar and voice only, a few tracks from the 60s accompanied by violin Ju'hoansi Bushmen - Instrumental Music - Various artists - 13.99 Music of the San people of Nambia Songs and Morin Khuur - Various Artists - 12.99 This selection of music from Mongolia features "Long" songs (where the voice covers a very wide register in a single breath), "short" songs (very lively in expression), Khoomii diphonic singing (where the performer sings at least two notes at the same time) and works with the emblematic Morin Khuur "horse head" fiddle. They are all remarkable examples of artistic expression, at times stupefying, from a fascinating nomadic culture with a long and rich cultural tradition. Debaa - Singing of Sufi Women - VA - 14.99 Debaa is a term used for the singing of mystical poetry within Sufism, more specifically it grew from the singing of the poems and narratives of Abdurahman al-Dayba, a Yemeni writer from the 15th century. Debaa has evolved on the island of Mayotte, part of the Comoros chain in the Indian Ocean, into a female choral practice, accompanied by drums, bells and tambourines and choreographed with dance movements. Several debaa groups (known as Madarassati) perform on Mayotte. This album presents five Madarassati, which commonly have between 50-80 members each. Calma - Omar Sosa - 12.99 Solo Piano &…' features the Cuban pianist in intimate, quiet compostions. Home Sweet Home - Moussu T e lei jovents - 13.99 Moussu T e lei jovents from La Ciotat return in 2008 with another slice of Occitan wit and wisdom. The band's third proper studio album continues in the same vein as their previous work - i.e., catchy, melodic, quirky, funny, dark, poignant, gritty. Singing as usual mainly in the Occitan language, the band again invoke the heat and intensity of Marseille and its neighbor, the band's hometown, La Ciotat. Come into my swing! - Angelo Debarre, Ludovic Beier - 8.99 This exciting album of swing jazz features the flamboyant precision of guitarist Angelo Debarre and the breathtaking virtuosity of accordionist Ludovic Beier. On Come into my swing!, the duo presents a program of standards and original compositions which manages to add an extra, unsuspected brilliance to even the simplest of statements, something which is indeed the mark of greatness in a musician. Debarre tends to pare his music down to bare essentials with an ever-increasing mastery, whereas Beier maintains constant and joyous sense of swing. Drop the Debt - Various Artists - 11.99 Sixteen titles, a hundred musicians, fourteen nationalities, one message. For Drop The Debt, a group world renowned musicians has come together to raise awareness of a humanitarian crisis. Each of the tracks here has been either written especially for this album or selected due to its relevance to the topic. Artists include Teofilo Chantre and Cesaria Evora, Chico Cesar, El Hadj N'Diaye , Massilia Sound System, Sally Nyolo, Lokua Kanza, Oliver Mtukudzi, Soledad Bravo... more. Valencia, Cant d'estil - various - Spain - 12.99 Cant d'estil are sung outside, especially on hot summer nights in Spanish Valencia (they is largely specific to this region). It is the adornment, the style, of these pieces that make them unique; demonstrating bravura is part of the art. Here, various singers are accompanied by a small rondalla (ensemble) in simple, earthy performances recorded in 2003. Fanm - Salem Tradition - 13.99 Music from La Réunion in the Indian Ocean by singer Christine Salem and her ensemble. Once consider music of slaves, linked to Africa and voodoo tradition, maloya music was considered 'low brow' and given little public support. In recent years there has been a revival, led by Daniel Waro, and a number of younger performers have come forward. The maloya rhythm is beaten out on indigenous drums - the rouler, piker and bob, with Salem's voice (supported by two other female singers) soaring over the rhythms of the band. Listen! The Spirit of Fes (2 CD set - special sale price) - Various - 17.99 Each spring the ancient city of Fez, Morocco, plays host to one of the world's great musical events, a one-of-a-kind festival that brings together performers from all over the globe in a unique musical celebration of the divine. On this 2 CD set, some of the festival's finest artists perform a wide-ranging program includes Islamic devotionals, Sufi ritual songs, Berber trance music, Arab-Andalusian rhythms, Bulgarian orthodox choir, Hindustani chants, Celtic sacred music, Christian Gospel, Swedish chamber choir, and more. Artists include Gilberto Gil (Brazil), Yungchen Lhamo (Tibet), Master Musicians of Armenia (Armenia), Madhavi Mudghal (India), The Roudaniyates (Morocco), The Anointed Jackson Sisters (USA), Illyas Mallev Ensemble (Uzbekistan), Sheikh Habboush and Al Kindi (Syria), Doudou N'Diaye Rose (Senegal), Ulali (USA), Farida and the Maqam Ensemble (Iraq) Flor de Luna - various - 9.99 The record label says: Flor de Luna is an offshoot of a group of Latin American musicians who founded La Calaca a few years back. The group's aim was to explore traditional Mexican music. The three founding musicians, Alfonso R. Mosquera (Ecuador), Gildardo Mejia Rodriguez (Mexico) and Gerardo Gutierrez Bernal (Mexico), are all steeped in the music and culture of Latin America. Most of the rhythms used on this record have their roots in traditional Mexican music, however you can also hear elements of music from the Peruvian Andes, of African-influenced music from the Peruvian coast, of Afro-Cuban or Ecuadorian music, and even classical Western instrumental music. Each of the 17 musicians taking part in this CD brings his or her own contribution to the musical whole, with the aim of creating something both original and highly traditional. L'epopee Tzingane (retail price 38.99) - The Road of the Gypsies - 21.99 The Network team presents a veritable cornucopia of profoundly emotional ballads and fiery instrumental pieces on the theme of Gypsy blues. 32 tracks, a third of them never released before, conjure up a panorama of the fantastic journey that began a thousand years ago and led these people from Rajasthan through Afghanistan, Iraq and Egypt, across Armenia, Turkey and the Balkans, throughout Europe and all the way to Spain. Mali: The Fulani Hoddu - various - 13.99 Music of the hoddu (the Fulani lute known elsewhere in Mali as ngoni). Christmas Music from Medieval Hungary - Anonymous 4 - 9.99 The famous female vocal quartet offers unusual holiday music. Songs and Music from Georgia - Idjassi - 15.99 Idjassi's repertoire reveals the joyously authentic music of an urban ensemble. Her music is based on Turkish or Iranian tunes, as well as pieces that imitate one of the oldest and most typical forms of Georgian polyphonic folk music. Idjassi accompanies herself on the garmoni (accordion) and a traditional three-string lute - a symbol of joy, and characteristic of the eastern part of Georgia. Her vocal art has made her one of the best ambassadors of a tradition she inherited from her family and chose to enrich with high-level musical studies. Jewish Liturgies - A.Attia, H.Désarbre - 12.99 A special re-issue of Jewish liturgical chant sung by Adolphe Attia, the officiating Prime Minister of the Grande Synagogue de la Victoire in Paris. The role of the officiating minister, the chaliah tsihour, is basic in the synagogue. His song alternates with the rabbi's sermons and teachings. Attia is accompanied by Hervé Désarbre, playing the organ of Val-de-Grâce. Sarod - Ustad Amjad Ali Khan - 12.99 Ustad Amjad Ali Khan is acknowledged throughout India as one of its foremost classical musicians and the maestro of his chosen instrument, the sarod. Born in 1945 in Gwalior, where his father was a musician to the royal family, he made an early debut giving his first solo recital at the age of 12 in 1958. He represents the sixth generation of his family to inherit a classical tradition that goes back through his father, the late Ustad Hafiz Ali Khan, to the era of the court musicians of the Mughal Empire. boheme de cristal - Lo'Jo - 14.99 Lo'Jo are one of the more mysterious bands, or collectives, to emerge from France. The oft-used term 'world music' is apropos for what Lo'Jo create, but in their case it just doesn't convey the strange map by which the band steers. Boheme de Cristal snakes along in a wide variety of styles, almost like an avant-garde cabaret or auditory Cirque de Soleil. ... Lo'Jo, thankfully, never bore; their inventiveness keeps you guessing as to what is around the corner. And if their one English song, "In the Commotion," makes sense to you: "In the commotion I believe/ I saw you/dreaming dead lovers/then choreographing all their gestures/mine all/their words/mine all this/blow it up," then welcome to the circus, and let Lo'Jo bring the dynamite. - Lee Blackstone, RootsWorld Macar - Melike - 13.99 Melike breathes new life into the old troubadour songs by creating a Turkish folk style that belongs to the young generation of today. It is a meeting of musicians each with his own roots and background, who come together in the context of Turkish folksongs, influenced and adapted by the Arabic, Turkish, European Jazz and Brazilian idioms they provide. The project was conceived like a novel about Macar and the war. Maritim - Marina Rossell - 11.99 The Catalan artist performs a selection of her favorite love songs. Each song is presented in the clear and transparent voice of a great, unpretentious Spanish singer. Mazarana - Asif Ali Khan and Party - 9.99 A promising singer from Pakistan, who studied with Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan, comes from a long line of qawwals and is a grandson of the legendary Santoo Khan. The clarity of his voice and his authentic sincerity to the Sufi tradition mark him out as a valuable new name in Qawwali, whhile hsi inventive approach makes him a name to watch for. Musiques metisses - various - 13.99 This CD journeys with seventeen artists discovered at the festival Musiques Métisses (based in Angoulême, France). They come from Madagascar, Reunion, the Comoros and Mauritius, and exemplify both tradition and change. Featured artist include Jaojoby, Nathalie Natiembé, Rajery, D'Gary and Mikidache. Mvet ai Mandzang - Music of the Beti in Cameroon - various - Cameroon - 12.99 From the series of the Museum Collection Berlin, a documentation of the music of the Beti in southern Cameroon. The mvet (a zither with notched bridge) and the mendzang (xylophone) are the most important musical instruments of the Beti of southern Cameroon. Traditional epic ballads and love songs are accompanied by the zither. The xylophone is played in groups at general on public and festive occasions. These recordings were made in 1984 in Cameroon, and in 1989 in Berlin with the group Mendzang M'ekum Adjap. Wawa - Mastaki Bafa - 11.99 Congolese acoustic guitarists first international recordings are a simple affair: guitar, a rugged voice, the percussion of the local lokele message drums. Traditions of the Oboe (piffero) - Stefano Valla and Franco Guglielmetti - 12.99 Stefano Valla, piffero and Franco Guglielmetti, accordion Fuji Satisfaction - Bantu, featuring Ayuba - 11.99 Adé Bantu is one of the defining figures of German HipHop. Born and raised in Lagos,Nigeria, then relocated to Cologne, his AfroPean blend draws from his forefathers' heritage and his experience of the African diaspora alike. He uses urban styles and sounds from R'n'B through HipHop to Ragga to contribute to the soundtrack of a global Africa: rooted in Yoruba history yet ripe with Western production, deeply sensual yet utterly spiritual, thoroughly individual and highly political. He is joined by Adewale Ayuba, a master of Nigeria's next generation of Fuji music. North India - Raga Darbari - Lalith Rao - 12.99 North Indian vocalist Lalith Rao presents two ragas from the Hindustani classical tradition, accompanied by harmonium, tempura and tabla. An exponent of the dhrupad style, the oldest genre within the tradition dating back to the 14th century. The booklet contains bilingual notes including a long interview with the artist. Rao is a disciple of Pandit Rama Rao Naik and Ustad Khadim Husain Khan, both of the Agra-Atrauli gharana. Messiah: Remix - various - 13.99 One of the irresistible chestnuts of classical music gets a radical overhaul by some of the contemporary music scene's leading provacatuers. Handel's 1742 warhorse gets mashed into electronica, modernist mania, moody ambience, rough-hewn hip-hop and uninhibited nuttiness by artists like John Oswald, Scanner, Paul Lansky and Eve Beglarian. Repentistas: Gardiens de verbes et de vaches - Various artists - 18.99 Word Keepers and cowboys' explores the rough and tumble musical world of 'repentism,' a rustic version of the La Casa de la Trova Broadway Goes Latin/Hollywood Cha Cha Cha - Edmundo Ros - 12.99 The name of Edmundo Ros was synonymous with Latin music in the UK for most of the post-war period. Originally released on two separate LPs, this collection takes the biggest hits from Broadway's best musicals and Hollywood movies and sets them to toe-tapping, hip, swinging Latin rhythms. It's great, campy fun... not for the serious! Shalom Comrade! - various - 13.99 Stalin's cultural ideologues planned to deploy the music of the Yiddish-speaking Jews of the Soviet Union as a building block for the new Soviet music, whereas the Jewish religion with its traditional way of life was damned as counter-revolutionary. This anthology tells the forgotten history of Yiddish music in the Soviet Union and contains rare recordings from the archive of the ethnomusicologists Rita Ottens and Joel Rubin. Interpreters include Misha Aleksandrovitsh, Mikhail Epelbaum, Marina Gordon, Emil Gorovets, Anna Guzik, Solomon Khromchenko, Nechama Lifshitsaite, Saul Liubimov, Solomon Mikhoels, Debora Pantofel-Nechetskaia, M. I. Rabinovitsh, Zinovii Shulman, and Sidi Tal. Sicilia: Canto Nuovo - Various Italian Artists - 14.99 Sicily is also the home of a new generation of performers, proud of their roots and open to the promise of the future. These musicians are perpetuating traditions, but also enriching them with their own life experience. Both preserving an ancient art and inventing a future for it, their instruments are the zampogna (bagpipes), friscalettu, organetto (accordion) and tamorra and their goal is to celebrate the beauty of Sicilian song. Calligraphies Vocales - Daryoush Tala'i - 11.99 Produced by musicians Daryoush Talâ'i and Djamchid Chemirani and featuring the voice of Iranian Ali Reza Ghorbani, the Tehran-based singe. A Persian singer needs a high degree of skill in interpretation since he is entering the service of Farsi, a language formed by poets. The paradox of Persian music is that the most sophisticated poetry is found in the most popular music. This recording features poems by Hafez, Rumi and Aref Ghazvini. Togo: Kabiye Orchestras and Lithophones - various - 12.99 voz com paz e amor - Voz de Cabo Verde - 9.99 The 2004 lineup of the legendary Cape Verdean ensemble founded by Luis Morais in the 50s. Al Gran Teatre del Liceu - Marina Rossell - 12.99 Recorded in the Gran Teatre del Licieu de Barcelona during la Diada, Catalonia's national holiday, it showcases the artist's continued revival of the traditional Catalan repertoire. The album twenty-three tracks features several guests, including Kepa Junkera. Muso Ko - Habib Koité and Bamada - 12.99 1990s classic from the Malian guitarist: 'Guitarist Habib Koite is from Mali, but this rising star represents the contemporary sound of African pop. His first album, which is now being re-released here, is mostly made up of upbeat songs that electrify a variety of regional styles. The accompanying translated lyrics show Koite to be a songwriter that takes on weightier subjects than the usual vacuous party fare. The songs don't translate easily, resembling fables at times, but there is no mistaking the message of his hit, "Cigarette A Bana (The Cigarette is Finished)." Koite's brisk, breezy songs layer call-and-response singing over a seamless mix of African percussion and Western instruments. His academic training shows up most notably in his sophisticated arrangements, which continually change textures, keeping his songs as appealing to the head as the feet.' - Marty Lipp, RootsWorld Río de los canasteros - Diego Amador - 10.99 Flamenco-influenced jazz pianist Diego Amador's powerful yet fluid piano is heard in interplay with guitars and vocals, and percussion and palmas. Guests include guitarist Tomatito, legendary cantaora La Susi, guitarist Raimundo Amador, bassist Carles Benavent and Argentinean guitarist Luis Salinas, offering the atmosphere of a juerga, an informal jam session where anyone can join in and anything can happen. Each of the nine tracks creates an all-night urban back-room gathering, offering the Iberian musical bliss known as duende. Vital - Fernando Otero - 12.99 Argentine pianist, composer and bandleader Fernando Otero's new album for World Village, Vital, is a meditative yet emotionally refractive set of eleven modern chamber music pieces, redolent of new-style tango, twentieth century atonality, sharp-edged downtown jazz, and other sounds Otero picked up at home and on his travels. The opening duet for piano and violin, "Nocturno," is a limping waltz that appears to depict an insomniac's midnight musings; it leads seamlessly into two succeeding yet unrelated movements. "Siderata," scored for six players including a bandonéon, Argentina's emblematic squeezebox, is an exercise in stillness, like the uneasy peace that so often precedes a difficult decision. "La Abundancia," another duet, is roundly, ripely melodic; but the wryly titled "Reforma Mental" is scored for eight players and from its opening keyboard arpeggios, depicts a dialogue between voices in conflict, with scampering piano runs periodically overwhelmed by groaning, overbearing horns. Between them, the violin and bandonéon achieve a small universe of sonic color on "Noche Illuminata," while "Fin de Revision" contradicts its title by continuing to mutate and evolve until the final, wheezing exhalation. Listen Sleepless Nights - V.M. Bhatt / Matt Malley - 12.99 Indian classical musician Vishwa Mohan Bhatt and his 'Mohan Veena' (an instrument he designed - a modified slide guitar for playing Indian modes). Matt Malley is the songwriter who co-founded the pop group, Counting Crows. Malley developed an interest in North Indian classical music and is a friend and student of Bhatt. Bhatt says, "In my view, music is the melody for life. The seven musical notes carry all the diverse shades of love and this musical album is an endeavor to spread the message of love and harmony all over the world. In the contemporary world, love is the only emotion which needs to be experienced and appreciated, and Sleepless Nights propagates this sacred emotion." Malley adds, "I hope that our record will put at least one more brick in the bridge between the East, West and all races of the world." Listen to Rainbow In My Heart and Listen to Sleepless Nights. Coliseu - Ana Moura - 14.99 A June 2008 concert by a rising star in modern fado in Lisbon's Coliseu dos Recrios. Special guests included two leading figures in the history of fado - Beatriz da Conceição and Maria da Fé - as well as Moura's music producer and collaborator, Jorge Fernando. Sin Rumba no hay Son! - Septeto Nacional - 12.99 The legendary Cuban group Septeto Nacional is back. ¡Sin Rumba no hay Son! captures these seven musicians in their modern prime - revealing the skill, taste and chops gained over four unbroken generations. Originally formed in 1927 by legendary bassist/singer Ignacio Piñeiro, this Grammy-nominated ensemble remains a sophisticated, arrestingly inventive exponent of son habanero, as can be heard on this new recording of rumbas, boleros and guarachas. Rutilantes - Los Amados - 10.99 A musical journey through boleros, mambos, cha-cha-chas, congas and danzones. Making its World Village début, Los Amados presents Rutilantes ("The Sparklers") – an intoxicating mix of songs that recapture the sounds of the Latin Orchestras of the 1950s and '60s. Los Amados (The Beloved) is based in Buenos Aires and its band members come from different corners of Latin America: Uruguay, Cuba, Puerto Rico, Guyana... In concert, the musicians dress in the style of the period which they explore in their music. The CD includes 12 infectious tracks, opening with the gorgeous bolero "Soy tu esclavo" and featuring a bonus video track, "Noche de Ronda." Plateau - Soname - 14.99 In Soname's autobiography 'Child in Tibe't she relates the story of her triumph over adversity, told against the backdrop of a turbulent and dangerous Tibet. Soname was born in the harsh Tibetan countryside during the Chinese occupation. When she was just sixteen, she risked death in a freedom trek across the Himalayas, finally arriving in Dharamsala, home in exile of the Dalai Lama, and later to England, where she met and married an Englishman. Plateau was recorded in London and Kolkata and features UK and Indian musicians including tabla maestro Tanmoy Bose. Soname composed all the material and sings in Tibetan throughout, her vocals evocative of the mountains and culture she has left so far behind. The luckless lands of the North - aNoo - 12.99 aNoo is a group led Brussels based Finn, Anu Junnonen. Anu started playing piano at the age of seven and added flute a few years later. She got the kick for jazz in her teens from playing saxophone and jamming with friends, with whom she also created a local junior big band in order to perform modern -tunes and Finnish compositions. She is accompanied by accordion, trombone, acoustic bass and drums on a set of original and unusual songs. Listen Crossing the strings - Leo - 12.99 Second solo album is a trip to 'Melodyland.' It all begins with a voice, a guitar and a songwriter - Belgian artist Leo. Steel strings, nylon strings, vocal cords...plain and simple songs at the crossroads of folk, blues and pop. Melody is the mainline. Songs about love, life and death, hometown, laziness and childhood days. Some tunes are low-key, in a 'close to the bone' form, others offer subtle arrangements with a little choir, cello, violin, flute, mandolin, double bass or drums Import Export - Les Ballets C. De La B. - 14.99 This is a live recording of the songs and music as they are performed this theater production directed by Koen Augustijnen. With Steve Dugardin (altus) and the Kirke String Quartet. Diversions - Thierry Crommen - 13.99 The Belgian harmonica master and an ensemble of guitars, bass and piano. Basque Fire - Betagarri - 14.99 Basque ensemble performs an energetic, regional version of ska, punk, rock. Fest - Fotefar and Håvard Lund - 14.99 FEST is the first CD from the folk trio Fotefar (Footprints) and clarinet player Håvard Lund. The trio is Lena Jinnegren, Bendik Lund Haanshus and Ragnhild Furebotten. Lena, from Sweden, has deep roots in rock, folk music and folk ballads. Ragnhild was nominated for the same award in 2008 for her solo CD "Endelig vals" (Finally a waltz). Bendik trained at the music conservatory in Trondheim, and plays in the group KADO and the tango music band Orangutango. Håvard is artist in residence for the cultural centre in Troms county, and now has a permanent position there as a musician, composer and arranger. He has played with the band Farmers Market, with Frode Fjellheim of Transjoik and collaborated with Trygve Seim. O Hamenos Ta Pairnei Ola - Yannis Aggelakas - 12.99 Soundtrack from the Greek film 'Loser Takes All' by Nikos Nikolaides, made by one of the countries leading rock-pop writers and an artist who has crossed all genre-boundaries in the last few years, both solo and with his band Trypes. The Bagpipe - Various Artists - 9.99 Ireland, Scotland, Brittany and Galicia. Uillean pipes from Dublin, Highland bagpipes of Scotland, and others are featured with jigs, marches and a rare vocal performance of Canntaireachd. Românian Gypsy Panflute Virtuoso - Draghici, Damian - 9.99 The great Românian prodigy redefines the art of the panpipe. Joined here by renowned Turkish multi-instrumentalist Omar Faruk and world percussionist and producer Randy Crafton, Draghici plays traditional Românian Gypsy, Greek and Turkish tunes Karya - I Wayan Sadra - 12.99 New Music Indonesia Vol.III : I Wayan Sadra, one of Indonesia's most interesting and influential experimental composers. Working with musicians, dancers, poets and instruments from Java, Bali, Sunda, Sumatra and in the U.S.,Sadra combines a unique contemporary aesthetic with his early training in Balinese music and his knowledge of the varied regional traditions of Indonesia to create a compelling body of music that is both Indonesian and International. Nichil. - Trio Aldo Nichil - 12.99 Music from the film 'Pizzicata' by Eduardo Winspeare. Simple and direct music from Salento performed by guitarist Nichil and a trio of 2 female voices and tamburello. Congo River - Coco Sukali - 12.99 Fernand Tchikounzi is a Congolese born New Yorker and lead vocalist for the group Coco Sukali. In addition to a brilliant band, the CD includes guests that would make any soukous king jealous: Lokassa Ya Mbongo, Daly Kimoko, and Nguma Lokito. This is the cool side of rumba from the old-school of Franco and Tabu Ley, sung in both English and Lingala. The Herd - Anders Hagberg - 12.99 Old traditions like herding calls, jojks and overtone flute meet musicians of the 90-s in an unlimited improvised world music. Anders Hagberg is well established in Scandinavia and has toured internationally with other crossover groups such as Mynta, New Jungle Orchestra and Winduo. Bulgarian Folk Music - Bulgari - 10.99 Bulgari present an excellent selection of traditional and folk melodies from the Bulgaria. The gaida, a Bulgarian bagpipe, is prominent and lends a familiar tone to the tunes, which also feature strummed and bowed string instruments, percussion, bass, flute and vocals. Songs of my People - Peter Garcia and The Garcia Brothers - 10.99 From San Juan Pueblo, in Northern New Mexico, comes a sound rich with history and honor for the living Earth. San Juan has been an active ceremonial center for seven hundred years and Songs Of My People is a collection of music to accompany ceremonial dances. The solo and group songs are sung by men with deep, penetrating voices and the instrumentation consists mainly of double-sided drums and gourd rattles. Songs of my People - Peter Garcia and The Garcia Brothers - 10.99 From San Juan Pueblo, in Northern New Mexico, comes a sound rich with history and honor for the living Earth. San Juan has been an active ceremonial center for seven hundred years and Songs Of My People is a collection of music to accompany ceremonial dances. The solo and group songs are sung by men with deep, penetrating voices and the instrumentation consists mainly of double-sided drums and gourd rattles. Memories of Herat - Aziz Herawi - 10.99 Instrumental music from Afghanistan Ancient Wisdom: songs and fables from Zimbabwe - Ephat Mujuru - 12.99 For many centuries, the mbira has been used by the Shona people of Zimbabwe to maintain contact with the spirit world and to recount fables. Ephat Mujuru is one of the world's most accomplished players of the mbira, or African thumb piano, and this recording presents a beautiful blend of spiritual and contemporary songs. Ngoma: Music from Uganda - Ndere Troupe and others - 10.99 Compiled by the acclaimed Ndere Troupe in 1995, the recordings from the Ngoma Project for Cultural Preservation present a wealth of traditional music from Uganda. This is the most comprehensive collection of traditional Ugandan music to date. Inspired performances by master musicians from the region's most important ethnic groups utilize a wide range of instruments including harps, mbiras, zithers, xylophones, and a wide array of African percussion. Fourteen tracks of music, digitally recorded and mastered. Riff-Ola - Swedish Sax Septet - 10.99 The Swedes have a history of brass instruments in traditional dance music. At the center of the revial maelstrom of the 80s were bands like Filarfolket and Groupa and the brass innovations of Anders Rosen, Sten Kallman and Thomas Ringdahl. Here they are joined by four other equally well travelled horn players to form an unusual all-brass ensemble that uses ancient folk, European classical music and a bit of jazz and pop-rock to create a sound both funky and formal. La Bibournoise - Genticorum - 13.99 Third album from this high-energy Quebecois trio: fiddles, wooden flute, fretless bass, guitar, jew's harp, feet and three-part vocal harmony! "Le Grondeuse Opossum," "Le Brandy Culotte," "Hommage a Andre Alain," nine more. 20 - La Musgana - 12.99 20th anniversary celebration by one of Spain's best known folk-roots ensembles; compilation of earlier recordings Um Bom Forro - Oswaldinho - 10.99 More accordion music from the unique Rio-born Brazilian master Amorosa - Rosa Passos - 12.99 "Forty years after the music's heyday the samba/bossa nova legacy and off-shoots are kept alive through such fusion artists as Rita Ribeiro and Da Lata, and through the original pioneers' progeny such as Bebel Gilberto, the Quarteto Jobim-Morelenbaum, and Moreno Veloso. Very few artists, however, have remained as steadfastly devoted to the music's original lounge style as Rosa Passos, her timeless approach preserving the tradition while expanding on it. Inspired by João Gilberto and Antonio Carlos Jobim, Passos started making a name for herself in the early Seventies. Several decades later she seems to be Brazil's best-kept secret. " - RootsWorld Tucan - Tucan trio - 12.99 Israel based trio of guitar, flute and percussion, plus vocals, delves into an original interpretation of Brazilian and Latin music that is light and breezy, all acoustic and unique. River of Truth - Shmuel Ruzbahan - 12.99 Contemporary compositions based on Persian classical themes, performed on santur, ney, kemenche, zarb and bendir Night Queen - Mandala - 11.99 Contemporary merging of trad and modern musical forms from Europe, Asia and the Middle East Love Trap - Susheela Raman - 12.99 'Love Trap works because it places all of its varied elements (Tuvan throat singing, Greek clarinet, jazzy sax etc.) around Raman's distinctive reinterpretation of Southern Indian Karnatic song. Whatever else is going on, her musical personality is always centre stage.' - fRoots Down In Dublin - Michael Hurley - 13.99 The king of snock, a master of overstated, under-rated, country influenced songwriting is like no one else on the planet, and these sessions from ireland are no exception. Dark, funny, disturbing and romantic, often simultaneously, Hurley is one of the few people out there who merits the accolade of 'one of a kind.' The Jig Is Up - Peter Stampfel and the Bottlecaps - 13.99 H.M. Rounder Peter Stampfel is back again, in a series of recordings made 1989–1999 with a host of different musicians, but all pulled together by his insatiable, exploratory lust for good songs, odd ideas and bizarre juxtapositions (and a Quicktime video clip, too!). Kchaba - Hijas Del Sol - 12.99 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. Battango - Lewis Trio - 12.99 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 Hot Club of Kairela - Jarvalen Napparit - 12.99 The classic Kaustinen fiddle sound is performed to perfection on this 1993 recording. On this recording the young musicians of the town are joined by JPP's master musicians to perform the music just like you'd hear it in the village school or the main stage some Sunday afternoon at the Kaustinen Festival. Perfect! Muzyka na trabke gitare i flet - Kwartet Jorgi - 12.99 Music for trumpet, guitar and flute, by one of Poland's most repsected modern music ensembles. ¡Saba Saba! - Milquinhento '1500' and Conjunto Popombo De Nampula and Conjunto Nimala - 12.99 recorded live in a local cinema and while different in instrumentation, they share a stripped down scratch band sound. Mil-Quinhento '1500' furiously strums a zither called a pankwe, a flat board with a tin can and a gourd for resonators. The band adds shakers, a bell-toned brake shoe, voices and nlapa, a tea chest with a gut string much like a wash tub bass. What makes Conjunto Popombo distinctive is the vocal work. A rapid fire call and response between the singers overlaps the syllables until they seem to be a single, unsingable torrent notes. The Simple Things We Said - Gabriel Yacoub - 12.99 A collection of songs, including 4 in English, some old and some new, plus some previously unreleased. All are new recordings made in Paris in 2001. The album is all acoustic. Fandango! - Renato Borghetti - 13.99 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! New Wave - Vizonto - 13.99 Hungarian new music quartet plays unique compositions from folk roots. Outra Vida - Joao Afonso - 11.99 Portuguese-via-Mozambique artist João Afonso's 2006 release is as warm and occasionally quirky as what I have come to expect from this songwriter and singer. This one has some more Afro-pop inferences than previously, and it is rhythmically solid while still holding on to the subtle and sweet tone that is Afonso's trademark. Comes in a a small hard-cover book, with charming drawings, and lyrics in Portuguese, with Spanish translation. Baile de libelulas - La Bruja Gata - 12.99 The Dragonfly Dance this band does moves carefully through a compositional bent a la Maria Kalaniemi (who accordionist Javier Palancar can compete with on every level of expertise!), the spirited energy of Kepa Junkera, touches of eastern European darkness and an overarching sense of sheer ebullience. The accordion dominates in this unique Spanish band, driven by percussion, bass and mandola, colored by zanfona, flutes, dulzaina, violin, clarinet and bass clarinet. Suenos Sencillos - Pablo Guerrero - 12.99 "Guerrero's thirteenth Spanish release. Some listeners may recognize his inimitable, understated baritone from A Maria Teresa Vera (Intuition, 1999), the superb tribute to the grand Cuban singer-songwriter. The accompaniment is sparse (acoustic guitar, bass and backing female voices), putting his pensive lyricism up front, a masterful illustration of the artistic virtues of less-is-more. Guerrero is a musician who has made a conscious choice to live at the margins of a music industry whose modus operandi is to homogenize everything in its grasp. Spanish speakers will appreciate the inclusion of the original lyrics. They emanate from the soul of a poet deeply concerned with the relations of power that deform community life on the planet. Guerrero's unassuming philosophical reflections upon mundane experience acknowledge the precious, fleeting character of human existence, the delight to be taken in everyday social relations, and the healing powers of love and a famously unfettered imagination. In the Spanish double-pun on his name, this singer continues to pablar y guerrear, to testify and to fight for dreams whose simplicity speaks the language of freedom." - RootsWorld Papeleria Rocio (objetos de escritorio) - Manuel Luna y Brena la Musica - 11.99 Roc and iacute;o's Stationary Shop (writing materials) is sort of a reissue of Luna's Los galles de Londres, with re-mixed and remastered tracks from the original LP recording, plus many newly recorded versions of other songs made in 2004. Luna explores his childhood memories and does some musical experimentation on the traditions of Cantabria in Spain with an acoustic ensemble of gaita, panderadulzaina, hurdy-gurdy, fiddle, percussion, bass, accordion and more, as well as an imaginative, light touch with electronics and recorded effects. Portugales - Various Portuguese Artists - 11.99 An excellent 2 CD collection of roots music from Portugal, compiled by the equally excellent Resistencia label in Madrid, from the early roots-rock of Jose Afonso's band Ritual Tejos to the contemporary folk music of Dulce Pontes. 27 tracks from well know traditional musicians, unknown and innovative adventurers, jazz and Brasilian influenced dance music and everything in between. Artists include Sergio Godhinho, Rui Veloso, Setima Legiao, Amelia Muge, Vai De Roda, Julio Pereira, Fausto, GNR, Jose Afonso and Radio Macau. Kluster - Kimmo Pohjonen - 12.99 2002 release from this Finnish accordion innovator Divane - Slobo Horo - 10.99 The Balkan Finn rock band ride again on this 2001 release of high energy dance and art music. Uumen - Kimmo Pohjonen and Eric Echampard - 12.99 Kimmo Pohjonen (accordion)/ Eric Echampard (drums) joined forces in 2001 with the goal to make totally improvised music, live on stage with no rehearsals. They have succeeded in their aim to ride the edge of melody, counterpoint, energy and tension as proven by the enthusiastic audiences at each performance, as well as by the satisfaction and exhilaration of the two players. Rough Guide to the Music of Spain - Various Spanish Artists - 9.99 Includes tracks by Javier Ruibal, Companyía Elèctrica Dharma, Luís Delgado, María Del Mar Bonet, Diego Carrasco, Ronda Segoviana and José Antonio Ramos with Pancho Amat. Bouzouki Pioneer, 1932-1940 - Markos Vamvarkis - 12.99 Haydar Haydar: Masters Of Turkish - Various Artists - 13.99 Names like Tanburi Cemil Bey, Refik Bey and Münir Nurettin Selçuk inspire the same passions in Turkey that King Oliver, Dock Boggs and Charley Patton do in the United States. These vintage recordings of Turkish music by a number of great Turkish musicians span the first fifty years of the 20th century, from 1906 to 1953. Repertoire includes Ottoman court, folk, and popular music Jews With Horns - Klezmatics - 12.99 Possessed - Klezmatics - 12.99 The Well - Chava Alberstein and The Klezmatics - 9.99 Homeland 2 - A Collection of South African Music - various South African artists - 12.99 The sequel to the first Homeland album, which was nominated for a Grammy. Sixteen tracks ofcontemporary sounds in South Africa. The rhythms and melodies of grass-roots Africa, from mbaqanga (township jazz) to choral music. Starry Nights in Western Sahara - Various African artists - 14.99 The musical the story of the Saharawis of Western Sahara Gula Gula - Marie Boine - 13.99 A collection on Real World records form some of her earlier recordings Diam - Daby Toure - 12.99 Daby Touré grew up in Mauitania, but moved to Paris at a young age, where he did service in Afropop bands like Touré Kunda (his cousins) and later Touré Touré. THis solo effort (which translates as 'peace') is a folky and experimental 'world music' recording that while strong on African roots, delves into a variety of other cultural influences for inspiration. Dead Men Don't Smoke Marijuana - S E Rogie - 13.99 The inimitable Sierra Leonean 'palm wine' guitar master's Real World recording Min Ba'd - Wissam Murad - 11.99 Vocalist, percussionist, oud player (and member of the Palestinian ensemble Sabreen) steps forward with a rich recording of modern songs rooted in tradition, accompanied by an excellent ensemble of ud, bass, percussion, violin, kanoun and cello. Grekow.Mlejnek.Mlejnek - Sarakina - 12.99 This young, Polish-based ensemble plays Macedonian, Bulgarian and other Balkan music with a charged energy, a flair for jazz and folk alike, and the curiosity of non-natives discovering a secret code. Native Signs - Sharma, Rahul - 12.99 Forty years after Shivkumar Sharma introduced the Persian hammered dulcimer (santoor) into classical Indian music, his son, Rahul, keeps its string ringing. VOICE OF INDIA - KHAN, RASHID - 12.99 VOCAL SPIRIT OF BENARES - MISHRA, CHANNUAI - 12.99 The record label says: Channulal Mishra is a gifted,versatile vocalist with a rich sonorous voice and wide ranging repertoire.He is a musician of deep knowledge,intense lyricism and spiritual depth Dhyaan - Shaukat Hussain Khan - 14.99 The record label says: Shaukat Hussain Khan has emerged as one of the leading exponents of the Agra Atrauli Gharana.Blessed with a melliflous voice ranging over three octaves,he is performer of exceptional merit. Vocal - Shaukat Hussein Khan, Tabla - Vinod Vaishnav, Sarangi - Liaquat Khan, Harmonium - Shishirchandra Bhatt. Performances: 1. Alap; 2. Bada Khayal in Vilambit Ektaal (12 beats); 3. Chotta Khayal in Madhya Teentaal (16 beats) AANAND - SHAH, RUPANDE - 14.99 The record label says: Rupande Shah has a major contribution to the development of cultural and music institutions in Gujarat.This live recording from Saptak Festival is an example of her dedication and inspiring performance SHIKHAR - CHAURASIA, HARIPRASAD - 14.99 BANSURI Pure - Chakrabarty, Kaushiki - 14.99 Winner of a BBC 3 World Music Award this year, Ajoy Chakrabarty's daughter and student, Kaushiki, is being hailed as the most talented young Indian singer to appear in a long while. SHEHNAI - SHANKAR, DAYA - 14.99 SHENAI Sadhana - Rajan and Sajan Mishra - 14.99 The record label says: The hallmark of Rajan and Sajan Mishra is superb intonation, beautiful imagination and yet a traditional approach combining old compositions with their own original music. The Mishra Brothers use their amazing vocal range and technique to produce sublime Indian vocal music A Sacred Space - Ronu Majumdar - 14.99 Ronu Majumdar - Bansuri ; Durga Prasad - Pakhawaj ; Partho Sarathi Mukherjee - Tabla ; Shridhar Partha Sarathy - Mridangam ; Vilas Pednekar - Tanpura From the Inside - Stacy Phillips - 10.99 The archduke of dobro is joined by Jon Sholle, Ken Kosek, Tony Trischka, Evan Stover and others. "Stacy Phillips hits almost every high point on this new release ("From the Inside), from klezmer to Hawaiian to bluegrass to Western Swing. This album is just damn beautiful, and if I don't write about it hear, you may miss it. Phillips has a masterful touch on one of my favorite instruments. . . gentle, totally fluid, totally present practitioner of American roots musics. [GRADE: A+]" - The Klezmer Shack Samjanitha - U. Shrinivas - 12.99 Electric mandolin in classical and modern Indian style, featuring guest John McLaughlin. Until the Ocean - The Horse Flies - 12.99 The long-lived, wildly original old-time music visionaries in a brand-new CD! Richie Stearns, Jeff Claus, Judy Hyman, percussionist Taki Masuko, bassist Jay Olsa and Rick Hansen on accordion, organ and Moog. "Build a House and Burn it Down," "Carnival Lips," "Baghdad Children," "Drunkard's Child" and more. Lucettina - Jean-Marc Andres - 13.99 A marvelously quirky recording by a French banjo player and his Belle Epoque Ensemble (violon, piano, bass, accordion, guitar, cello and uke). He's lived in France, New York, Florida, the Caribbean and now back in France, his work shows all of these influences in a collection of original tunes, waltzes, ballads, blues shuffles and swing. Absolutely charming. Sabou - Mory Kante - 12.99 The Guinean singer and kora player, veteren of some of western Africa's greatest bands (including the Rail Band in the early 70s) presents an all-acoustic tour-de-force in this 2004 release. Mulatu Steps Ahead - Mulatu Astatke - 15.99 Vibraphonist and composer Astatke and his Ethiopia band are joined by members of The Heliocentrics and The Either/Orchestra for some totally original Ehtio-jazz adventures. Les Amants Du Saint-Laurent - Le Vent du Nord - 15.99 Traditional music from Quebec by one of the regions most respected ensembles, the quartet of Nicolas Boulerice (piano, hurdy-gurdy, vocal), Olivier Demers (fiddle, guitar, vocals), Benoit Bourque (dance, accordion, bones and spoons, guitar, mandolin, vocals) and Simon Beaudry (guitar, voice). Dans les airs - Le Vent Du Nord - 15.99 The Québec band plays innovative yet traditional music from the region, with Simon Beaudry (guitar, vocals); Nicolas Boulerice (hurdy-gurdy, piano, pianoaccordion, vocals); Réjean Brunet (acoustic bass, diatonic accordion, piano, vocals); Olivier Demers (fiddle, foot tapping, mandolin, vocals). Excellent, as they always are! CHANSONS FRANÇAISES- 1935-1950 2 CD set - VARIOUS - 26.99 The Voice of Lightness 1961-77 (2 CDs) - Tabu Ley Rochereau - 14.99 This 2 CD set is comprehensive look at trhe legendary Congolese artist's career in recordings from the 60s and 70s. Beautifually packaged with excellent notes by Ken Braun. Essential work by a ground breaking singer and bandleader. Highly recommended. Francophonic (Vol 1, 1953-1980) - Franco and le TPOK Jazz - 17.99 Subtitled "The Greatest, A Retrospective" and Franco truly can be called one of the greatest musicians to hit sub-Saharan Africa in the 20th Century. From his very first session thru some of his monster hits, this 2 CD, 28 Track set has it all. Incoudes an excellent 48 page illustrated booklet written by Francophile Ken Braun. The King of History - D.O. Misiani and Shirati Jazz - 13.99 Classic 1970s Benga Beats from Kenya - They did not invent benga, the energetic dance music of Kenya and Tanzania, but they defined its modern form, with its hypnotic electric guitars and fabulously active bass, and made it popular throughout East Africa. Their records, released internationally in the late 1980s and early 90s, introduced benga to the world. Because of benga, D.O. Misiani, who was born in Tanzania in 1940 and died in Kenya in 2006, is probably now the second-most famous Luo in the world. Vol 1: Trovador - Africando - 12.99 The first recording by this African-Latin fusion supergroup Afrobeast - Yaaba Funk - 16.99 This predominantly Ghanaian highlife and Afrobeat band is based in London, and have been making waves this year. A product of Brixton and influenced by 1970'S Ghanaian hi-life, funky sounds of James Brown and UK sounds like Roots Manuva and The Specials. This is their debut CD. Sinikan - Sekouba Bambino - 11.99 Bambino's worldwide recognition is long overdue and Sinikan is a weighty work that might just turn him into a household name. Bambino is acutely aware that his country's eyes are fixed on him, awaiting the great breakthrough of their 'ambassador of Guinean music'. I love my country, avows Bambino patriotically. Whatever I sing at home, I want to sing to the whole world. But I'll always remain the Bambino of Guinea. Our land has rich cultural treasures which I want to develop in my own way and take as far as God will allow me. - from the interview in fRoots Forro For All 2 - various - 13.99 Once the party music of Brazil's rustic northeast, forró is now for all the fun-loving in cities around the world. Marked by it's hard rhythm, its tight percussion and of course, the accordion, this collection spotlights a number of different ensembles oyu may never have heard of. Francophonic, Vol. 2: 1980-1989 - Franco and TPOK Jazz - 17.99 2 CDs - Volume 2 of the stunning Stern's collection of the Congolese master's work. Essential! Caress / Muda'aba - Marcel Khalife - 13.99 2004 release by the Lebanese ud master. Contemporary, jazz-inflected settings that still hold true to the Arabic roots of the compositions, performed by an ensemble of oud, piano, vibraphone, bass, percussion (Arabic and western), and guest violinist Omar Guey. Wayo Tactics - Smilin' Osei - 11.99 The Ghanaian's new album boasts Malian guitarist Zoumana Diarra, Congolese bass-player Shaba Kahamba, Senegalese drummer Pape Seck and the horn section of the Amsterdam Klezmer Band. The Indestructible Beat of Soweto Vol 1 - Various South African Artists - 12.99 The original recording that broke down the barriers and brought the music of South Africa to the world... reissued. Batonga Across the Waters - V.A. - 18.99 The Music of the Batonga of Zambia and Zimbabwe. The first album ever of the beautiful music of the forgotten Batonga people of Zambia and Zimbabwe, who were forced to move by the rising waters of Lake Kariba in 1958. Recorded in the Zambezi valley in 1996. Listen Tanzanian Classics - Tondo - 12.99 New songs with a classic sound from Tanzania. On The Edge of The Ituri Forest, 1952 - Hugh Tracey Recordings - 16.99 Mbuti pygmy singing; Mudumbu and Nande music for the likembe (thumb piano), Budu horns and drummers; and Mbuti pipers performing an unusual hocketed melody Zambush Volume 1 - Zambian Hits of the 80s - Various - 14.99 The electric music from Zaire and Zimbabwe from the 80s may be well known in the West, the music from Zambia is not. Zambia's had always had a vibrant and diversified music scene has always been vibrant and diversified and during the eighties yet another new musical era emerged - the kalindula years, when rural dance music from all over Zambia went electric and these songs became the big hits of the time. Zambush offers 10 tracks in 70 minutes of rough and tumble electric roots. Zambush Vol. 2 - Various Zambia Artists - 14.99 'Zambian Hits from the 60s and 70s' features three legends: the sophisticated group The Big Gold Six featuring the jazzy guitar of Bestin Mwanza, the sweet singer from the province Emmanuel Mulemena, and the cosmopolitan Nashil Pichen Kazembe. Three different vocal sounds and three great guitar sounds that could only have come from Zambia. The Golden Voice of Bollywood - Asha Bhosle - 10.99 A compilation of 14 film pieces by the great Indian singer singer includes 'Ab to Mile Hai' from the film 'Caravan'; 'Yeh Hai Reshmi Zulfon Ka Andhera' from 'Mere Sanam' and 'Do Lafzon Ki Hai Dil Ki Kahani' from 'The Great Gambler.' Jarnnetter - Camilla Granlien Band - 15.99 Two great poets from Lom: Tor Jonsson (1916–1951) and Olav Aukrust (1883–1929). Though their views of rural life were far apart, it held a great influence on them both. Tor Jonsson faced much hardship in his youth and came to be critical of the closely-knit rural society, while Olav Aukrust, a champion of religious and national causes, held a more positive view of rural communities, people and lifestyles. Differences notwithstanding, it is obvious from the titles and form of their poems that both drew inspiration from traditional music. We have set some of their poems to traditional tunes both old and recent, and included a few songs they might have heard at home. Finally waltz - Ragnhild Furebotten Trio - 15.99 Music from Northern Norway with Ragnhild Furebotten ( fiddle) with Frode Haltli (accordion) and Gjermund Larsen (cello and viola). With this recording Norwegian fiddler Furebotten delivers an exciting debut under her own name, in a decidely contemporary style of folk music. Lån meg vengjene - Ragnhild Furholt - 15.99 With a single exception, all the tunes on this CD were collected by Ludvig Mathias Lindeman (181287). The song Hagbard og Signe was transcribed by O.M. Sandvik (18751976) after Svein Tveiten from Hovden, Setesdal, in 1919. 'I'm delving into the past, trying to uncover the myths and mysteries that which lies hidden within the old stories and songs. How did people think in the old days, and how is it that the old legends, myths and songs are still alive and meaningful, even today?' Begjaer - Camilla Granlien - 15.99 On Begjær the Norwegian singer offers a gorgeous a capella performance of traditional folk songs The Art of Taksim - Goksel Kartal - 10.99 Ask Me No Questions - Djivan Gasparyan - 11.99 Duduk master Gasparyan is featured here performing Armenian folk songs and melodies from Armenia's pagan and Christian traditions. Tatyos Efendi Vol 1 - The Kudsi Erguner Ensemble - 12.99 Erguner's ensemble performs the works of one of the great composers of Ottoman music. Tatyos Efendi Vol 2: Vocal Masterpeices - Kudsi Erguner Ensemble - 12.99 Featuring vocalist Melihat Gulses Marko Melkon - Marko Melkon - 12.99 Oud player "Marko" Melkon Alemsherian was an important early artist of Middle Eastern and belly dance music in the United States. An ethnic Armenian born in Turkey, he settled in America in 192 and popularized middle eastern in the New York cabaret scene of the era. Scattering Stars Like Dust - Kayhan Kalhor - 14.99 "Kayhan Kalhor is a native Iranian who now lives in NYC. He is a virtuoso player of the kamancheh, the so-called spike fiddle of Asia. It is played while seated cross legged on the ground, and held and bowed cello style. It has four strings and is about the length of a violin though the body is much smaller, resembling that of an nineteenth century gourd banjo. In the twentieth century the European violin began to replace the kamancheh, but it has begun to experience a revival, due, in part, to great players like Kalhor. Besides an extensive background in Iranian classical and folk music, Kalhor studied Western art music in Italy and Canada and, in this album, applies some classical techniques to the "traditional" art music of his native country. These include occasional vibrato, quadruple time, staccato phrased passages, and general bravura passages meant to impress. His short, fast bowings are extraordinary, reminding me of the "butterfly" bowings of South Indian violinists like L. Shankar. He coaxes all manner of sounds from the kamancheh that I have not heard before." - RootsWorld Raga Rasa - That Which Colors the Mind (2 CDs) - Kartik Seshadri with Bikram Ghosh - 16.99 Sitar virtuoso Kartik Seshadri explores variations of mood and color (rasa) in four extended ragas. Seshadri has built a wide following among Indian music aficionados who admire his rich tonal sensibility, expressiveness, and extraordinary rhythmic intricacy. Packaging includes a 2-CD set with 40 pages of text on the history of Indian music by acclaimed MIT musicologist George Ruckert. The Fox and The Lion - Trio Kavkasia - special order Georgian polyphonic vocal music Trio Kavkasia (2 tenors and a bass, accompanying themselves with chunir, panduri and chonguri) presents traditional songs from cities and hamlets across Georgia, in styles ranging from wedding and work songs to carols and hymns. Good English notes included. Live in Germany - Kalman Balogh Gypsy Cimbalom Band - 12.99 Kálmán Balogh is probabky the best known cimbalom player in the world, having toured everywhere and played in a variety of settings and styles. His Gypsy Cimbalom Band has never been more energetic than on this live concert recording, collaborating with classical, jazz and folk musicians in a program of traditional tunes transformed into artful, modern dance music that he calls Gypsy Jazz. Nign of Reb Mendel: Hasidic Songs in Yiddish - Joel Rubin Ensemble - 13.99 In his second recording on the Traditional Crossroads series, clarinetist Joel Rubin continues his exploration of the intersection between the Jewish instrumental klezmer and hasidic vocal traditions. The ensemble features the singing of Eli Silberstein, a Chabad rabbi born in Antwerp, who comes from a long line of religious scholars from Russia and Lithuania. In this collection, Silberstein commands a large repertoire of Old World nigunim, Hasidic melodies of spiritual elevation focusing on songs with Yiddish text. Includes an extensive 28-page booklet with information about the history of the repertoire, English, Hebrew and Yiddish transliterations. Arshile Gorky - various Artists - 12.99 A CD presenting music from the painter Arshile Gorky's Armenian homeland. This historic region, especially Gorky's birth village of Khorkum, near the great Lake Van, was often colorfully described by Gorky as rich in agriculture, much of which he depicted in images of the Armenian plow, orchards, gardens and wheat fields. The same symbols were frequently reflected in folk songs of the region. Hear these songs, including one often danced by Gorky himself, played on authentic period instruments dating back to the 16th century, masterfully performed by the most renowned Armenian musicians including duduk virtuoso Djivan Gasparyan, udist, Richard A. Hagopian, The Shoghaken Ensemble and others. The 12-page booklet includes extensive notes about the music with English translations of the songs, Gorky's biography and photos of Gorky at work. Apricots from Eden - Djivan Gasparyan - 12.99 Gasparyan is featured here performing Armenian folk songs and melodies from Armenia's Pagan and Christian traditions. Balada - Yuri Yunakov Ensemble - 12.99 Zmiros Project - Zmiros Project (Frank London, Lorin Sklamberg and Rob Schwimmer) - 12.99 Klezmatics founders Frank London and Lorin Sklamberg, and pianist Rob Schwimmer present the mystical repertoire of Jewish 'zmiros' singing. Vurria sapiri... - Sara Cappello - 9.99 Ciroma - Ciroma - 9.99 An ensemble from calabria, Italy, who describe ther work as 'a deep symbiosis between text and music.' Mixing pop idioms with sourthern Italian folk roots comes effortlessly and without pretense to this seven member ensemble. Yun Mu - Marco Cappelli - 12.99 Italian guitarist tackles a wide variety of works for solo guitar: John Zorn's Book of Heads, Steve Reich's Electric Counterpoint, plus compositions by Claudio Lugo, Junghae Lee and Giorgio Tedde. La Voz Feminina - Las Chicas del Tango - 10.99 tango music from Finland Fastland - Sula - 13.99 The music is from the whole north Atlantic area… reels, jigs, hornpipes, polkas, hopsas and powerful songs. Rod Sinclair (Scotland) sings and plays guitar and 5-string banjo. Eskil Romme (Denmark) plays accordion, saxophone and pipes. Erling Olsen (Denmark) is a fiddler in the traditional Nordic style. Sell Out - The Who - 10.99 OK, why the hell is this in here? One of the 'proprietor's perogatives,' I guess. I found one of my suppliers selling a very reasonably priced edition of what I consder to be one of the 5 best rock records ever made. It was a gem, and this remastered version brings out all its quirks. There are a bunch of bonus tracks, but I don't listen to the out-takes. The core is the madness of their music and advertising parodies, and it's all you need! Alpha - Alpcologne - 13.99 Probably a totally new concept to you, as it is to me: 3 alphorns and vocals. The concept of the band arises from its unusual instrumentation. The warm, rich sound of the 4-meter-long traditional instruments encounters the expressiveness and melodic flexibility of the voice. Like the explorers of past centuries, Alpcologne can experiment with its own sound - playing Folk, Ska, Tango, Mambo, Cajun, Bluegrass, and Oriental music; original compositions or reinterpretations. Unique, to say the least! Rising Road - John Jones - 13.99 With seven traditional songs, four written by John, and one from the Oysterband vaults, Jones' first solo outing features Seth Lakeman (tenor guitar, fiddle, vocal), Benji Kirkpatrick (guitar, mandolin, bouzouki, piano, vocal), former Oysterman Ian Kearey (banjo-dulcimer), Rowan Godel (vocal), Sophie Walsh (harp) and Francois Deville (pedal steel) as well as homeboys Dil Davies (drums), Alan Prosser (guitars) and producer Al Scott. Listen Re-covers - Albert Kuvezin and Yat-Kha - 13.99 OK, it had to happen, and Tuvan singer, electric guitarist and experimentalist Kuvezin is certainly the one to do it: Tuvan rooted recovers of pop and country 'hits' (although some here fall into the category of minor). So Led Zepellin's "When The Levee Breaks" gets an acid-rock throat-singing treatment to entrancing if somewhat unsettling results side by side with music from Kratfwerk, Motorhead, Hank Williams, Iron Butterfly, Paul Mauriat, Captain Beefheart ("Her Eyes Are A Blue Million Miles" is one of the gems of the set!), Joy Division and a few Central Asian hit-makers as well. Irresistible fun, and occasioanlly brilliant. (This is the 2006 US release) Mesk Elil - Souad Massi - 12.99 2005 release by the much-reviewed Algerian songwriter and singer. With a larger band including musicians from Europe and Africa (Djely Moussa Kouyate from Salif Keita's band and rising star Daby Touré), she is pulling for that international stardom so often sought after and rarely achieved. self titled - Apparatschik - 10.99 They play 'Volxmusik' - from polkas and tangos to sentimental lovesongs.With accordeon and the balalaika, Apparatschik offers a rugged kind of dance music: energetic and fast, but sometimes melancholy, as well. True Russian grit. The Charm of Chamame - Chango Spasiuk - 10.99 The passionate accordion player and composer Chango Spasiuk transforms the Chamamé, a rural dance music, into an highly elaborated artform presented mainly in concert settings, in much the same way Astor Piazzolla added jazz elements and a classical note to the Tango. from heaven into hell - Revelling Crooks - 10.99 They call it klezmer-country-balkan-folk but the genres hardly do justice to this band of accordion,banjo,mandolin, violin, guitar,bass and drums, as they romp through folk-roots, rock, ska and Balkan sounds with reckless abandon. Il senso della Vita (The meaning of life) - Folkabbestia - 10.99 In the grand tradition of folk rock and acoustic madness that has swept Italy in the last decade, Folkabbestia certainly are destined to lead rather than follow. This six-piece ensemble rocks, roars, and rollicks their way through a traditional repetoire with little sense of decency or decorum, and the better they are for it! You'll hear tarantella, ska, jazz, rock and hybrids yet invented. Travellin' Companion 3: A Musical Journey to Germany - Various Artsists - 10.99 A collection of new and unexpected roots music from Germany includes ULMAN, Schal Sick Brass band, Di Grine Kuzine, Jams and a dozen more. Mi Refugio - Paul Raackow - 10.99 new tangos for solo musician, from this Berlin based bandoneon (accordion) player Tre Nyhus (3x Nyhus) - Sven, Ashild Breie and Ingfrid Breie Nyhus - temp out of stock-18.99 Sven Nyhus (fiddle), Åshild Breie Nyhus (fiddle, viola) and Ingfrid Breie Nyhus (piano, zither) join the family name in a wonderful trio exploration of true Norwegian 'roots,' as only a family of musicians can find them. Annbjorg - Annbjørg Lien - temp out of stock-18.99 the first album by the Norwegian fiddler and her band Nye Sko (new shoes) - Kvasir - temp out of stock-15.99 Interpretations of traditional Danish dance tunes and songs, with Mette Kathrine on accordion, Henriette Hansen on fiddle and vocals, and occasional contributions by Yann Flaquet on guitar. Lively, spirited music from Denmark for dancing and listening. Mar de Vigo - SonDeSeu - temp out of stock-16.99 SonDeSeu is a Galician folk orchestra of 35 students and teachers from El Conservatorio de Música Tradicional de la Escuela de Artes e Oficios de Vigo (The Traditional Music Conservatory of The Vigo School of Arts and Trade) during the 2001-2002 school year. They present traditional material and new compositions, all with a vibrant, youthful vitality and urgency. Ensemble voices, harps, gaita (bagpipe), pandereta and other percussion, zanfoña (hurdy-gurdy), flutes and fiddle all join together in presentations large and small.
|