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Bura Bura Yan - Huegu and Doc Doc
$16.99
(cdRoots# trees-bura)
Huegu and Docdoc are two of the The Betel Nut Brothers from Taiwan, Amis farmers and hunters who have dedicated themselves to preserving the dying Amis culture. Simple folk songs on guitar, harmonica, percussion and the like, sung with passion and vitality.

The Migration Festival (CD/DVD set) - Various
$22.99
(cdRoots# trees-dvdmig)
Live recordings on music CD and NTSC-DVD video set (two separate discs) documents 2002 Migration Festival in Taiwan. Performers include Alom (Czech), Labour Exhange Band (Taiwan), Cracow Klezmer (Poland), Betel Nut Brothers (Taiwan) and Urna (Mongolia).

Hunters Who Lost Their Land - Betel Nut Brothers
$16.99
(cdRoots# tm-betel04)
fRoots says: Betel Brothers are four brothers and a cousin - Huegu, Docdoc, Budu, Abi and Wushin; a truck driver, a surgeon, a dance company assistant, a leader of a traditional Amis dance company and a grocer. All five, we are told, are hunters who have lost their land and traditional livelihood and adapted to the new ways in order to survive in the cities. Their music is their final stand to protect the last traces of Amis culture and dignity. These are protest songs, love songs, harvest songs, songs sung at the dismissal of a husband from when Taiwan was a matriarchal society, dance songs, songs of place, folk songs; all played on acoustic guitar, mostly strummed, no fancy finger picking, small percussion; and vocal melodies often bearing traces of what we Europeans would know as pentatonic South East Asian folk and pop tunes, of course.

Betel Nuts - Betel Nuts Brothers and Koma Koma
$temp out of stock-16.99
(cdRoots# tm-betel)
Two musical groups originated from Austronesian cultures—The Koma Koma String Band from Papau New Guinea and the Betel Nuts Brothers from Taiwan, sharing the betel nuts culture and Austronesian roots.

Let Us Sing Mountain Songs - Labor Exchange Band
$temp out of stock-16.99
(cdRoots# tm-003)
Taiwanese folk and folk rock, political and social songs

Night March of the Chrysanthemums - Labor Exchange Band
$temp out of stock-16.99
(cdRoots# tm-2002)
Great new folk band from Taiwan blends Chinese traditional folk instruments with western folk-rock influences in a style like nothing else to come from the country before.

Live in Taipei (CD and DVD set) - Chemirani Trio
$temp out of stock-22.99
(cdRoots# tm-chemdvd)
Bijan Chemirani, zarb, daf; Djamchid Chemirani, zarb; Keyvan Chemirani, zarb - recorded live at the Migration Music Festival in Taiwan. This is a full set of all percusssion music from the Persian tradition, presented on an audio CD and in a DVD film (DVD is NTSC- format - suitable for North America, Japan, etc. Most PAL players and almost all computers will also play it.)

Getting Dark - Shen Xiang and Water 3
$temp out of stock-16.99
(cdRoots# tm-dark)
A founder of the political folk group Labor Exchange band, Sheng Xiang and fellow Laborer Yongfeng have gathered a new group of musicians together to create Water 3: Mark Jia-Xi Peng (Little Peng), harmonica; Lu Jiajun (Little Six), fretless bass; Zhong Yufeng, three-string lute, moon guitar and pipa-lute.

Hodood - Urna Chahar-Tugchi
$temp out of stock-17.99
(cdRoots# tm-hodood)
Original and traditional Mongolian songs by a small acoustic ensemble of vocalist Urna, with cello, zither, percussion and sheng.

Jamar - Urna
$temp out of stock-17.99
(cdRoots# tm-jamar)
Jamar is the Mongolian word for 'On the way'. New compositions and arrangements for Mongolian vocals by Urna Chahar-Tugchi and featuring Robert Zollitsch (zither, throat-singing), morinkhur-virtuoso Burintegus from Inner Mongolia and Indian percussionist Ramesh Shotham.

Amilal - Urna
$temp out of stock-17.99
(cdRoots# tm-urna05)
The Chemirani Trio - Zoltan Lantos (violin), Djamchid Chemirani and Keyvan Chemirani (percussion) join Mongolian vocalist Urna Chahar-Tugchi on her 2005 release. They take a spare and elegant approach, each instrument and voice holding equal importance in delivering these traditional and tradition-inspired songs, from soft balladry to almost avant garde energy. Beautifully packaged in a gatefold digipak with a classy book inside, with images, photos and lyrics in Mongolian script and English translation. Highly recommended!