---

Øystein Sevåg
Global House
Song From the Planet
Windham Hill Records

Smithfield Fair
Walking Through This World
Believe in One
Stevenson Productions
Artist website: Smithfield Fair
New music from Lousiana-based Smithfield Fair, whose active touring schedule includes a wide variety of concerts, folk and Scottish/Celtic music festivals. Smithfield Fair have shared the stage with Celtic musicians including Andy M. Stewart, Battlefield Band, Eileen Ivers, Robbie O'Connell, Johnny Cunningham, The Tannahill Weavers, Alasdair Fraser, and Archie Fisher.

Eliane Elias
Around the City
Running
RCA Victor
Artist website: www.ElianeElias.com
Eliane Elias is Brazil-born but based in New York. Her impressive discocraphy includes about twenty albums.

Hazmat Modine
Bahamut
Everybody Loves You
Barbes Records
Artist website: Hazmat Modine
Hazmat Modine plays a unique kind of gypsy blues backed by tuba, trumpet, bass sax and guitars, and aided by East European cymbolom, sarusaphone, bass marimba, Chinese sheng, and claviola. This song also includes backing vocals of the throat singers of the group Huun-Huur-Tu.

Putumayo World Music
Blues Around the World
Big Mama & Victor Uris: No Way Out (Catalonia/Spain)
Putumayo Records
"Blues from Around the World" includes tracks from Mauritania to Taiwan, and from Mississippi to Mali.

Antonio Restucci
Crisol
Patio de luna
Petroglyph Records
New music from Santiago Chile native, Antonio Restucci. He melds the music of South America, with music of the Middle East, Spain, and India. The title of the cd, "Crisol" is Spanish, a refererence to crucibles used to melt precious metals...

Lenine
Lenine
Jack Soul Brasileiro
Six Degrees Records
Artist website: Lenine
Lenine is a singer/songwriter at the forefront of contemporary Brazilian music.

Niña Pastori
Joyas Prestadas
Todavía
Sony BMG Entertainment España
Club de fans: Niña Pastori
Niña Pastori is a new voice form Spain with flamenco training and a pop sensibility...

Manu Chao
Esperanza
Bixo
El Dorado 1997
www.manuchao.net
Artist website: ManuChao
Some vintage Manu Chao to spice-up the evening.

Dhira
Dhira
Una familia
Vida tras vida
Universal Music Spain
An album recorded in Spain, full of diverse influences including rock & reggae, salsa, hip-hop, and electric sitar — crank-up the volume... its music for today's global village...
Artist website: Dhira
World Beat Pick of the Month

Kat Parra
Birds in Flight
Mais Que Nada
JazzMa Productions
Artist website: Kat Parra
Chilean singer/songwriter, Kat Parra won 5th place in the Latin Jazz category of the John Lennon Songwriting Contest for her song, "Birds in Flight."

Lino
Miami Jam
Break of Day
Artist website: Lino Music
Lino's third release of guitar-based instrumentals.

*************************
Next-up music from Minnesota. We will be hearing contemporary singer/songwriter Courtney Yasmineh. We'll also hear a track from "Modern Times," the first all original album in five years by Minnesota's master songwriter, Bob Dylan.
*************************

Courtney Yasmineh
Sufi Line
Sufi Line (title track)
Artist website: Courtney Yasmineh
Singer/songwriter, Courtney Yasmineh's introspective lyrics of love, loss, childhood and spirituality; recorded in the Twin Cities.

Bob Dylan
Modern Times
Ain't Talkin'
Columbia
Artist website: Bob Dylan
"Modern Times" is Bob Dylan's first all-original album in five years. Dylan sings the blues with style, in "Thunder on the Mountain." He embodies the mature romantic crooner on "Someday Baby." His anthem to the workingman hits home in today's economy. Sounds a warning of eminent tragedy with, "The Levee's Gonna Break." but it is the style and context of "Ain't Talkin'" that fast forwards listeners from the 60's to the present day.

Various Artists
Echoes of Tuvalu
Jose Gonzalez "Pirulo": The Flight of Jimmy Angel
New Vibes Media
New music dedicated to raising awareness of Global Warming. Tuvalu is a chain of islands in the South Pacific. It is among the first landmass to begin slipping beneath the waves as tides rise around the world due to melting glaciers and the polar icecaps...

Terry Oldfield
Reiki Harmony
Spirit Calling
New Earth Records
Terry Oldfield blends healing tones that reach deep into the inner core of your being and transports you to a state of bliss.

Banco de Gaia
Farewell Ferengistan
White Man's Burden
BancoDeGaia.net
notes from BancoDeGaia.net: Toby Marks, under the pseudonym Banco de Gaia, has spent most of his career focusing on issues that he finds bewildering by expressing his thoughts and observations through music. He wrote his critically acclaimed 1995 album Last Train To Lhasa to highlight the plight of the Tibetan people and successfully mixed electronica with a braver vision. Farewell Ferengistan captures the spirit and mood of Last Train To Lhasa but this time Banco de Gaia's concerns are much closer to home: what are we doing to ourselves? Where is our materialism taking us, would it not be wise to consider our position?

AeTopus
Tempula
Nearer Clearer
Artist website: Ae Topus
Electronic music dedicated to the powerful unseen magnetic force lifting humanity toward a higher power

Shiva Rea
Jala
Nirag Chag : Nomad
Sounds True
A new collection of yoga and massage music compiled by Shiva Rea. The music is the massage...
Artist website: Shiva Rea

One at Last
Are You Dreaming
Bhaja Hure Mana
Sounds True
Techno-tribal music fusing devotional chants and electronica from the kirtan band, "One At Last"
Artist website: One At Last

Lolli Zan
Ancient Girl
Ancient Girl (title track)
Hymn Hum Records
A new EP cd from a group out of India.

YofiYah
Kabbalah Kirtan
Dodi Li
Sounds True
Kirtan is the art of devotional chant and an open invitation for listeners to sing to and join with God. YofiYah is the creator of Vocal Discovery a method for community building through song and the leader of the Tone deaf Choir, helping self-described non-singers learn to sing.

Ty Burhoe
Invocations
Spirit Calling
New Earth Records
Terry Oldfiels blends healing tones that reach deep into the inner core of your being and transports you to a state of bliss.

Paul Avgerinos
Gnosis
Follow Your Bliss
Round Sky Music.com
Artist website: Paul Avgerinos
"Gnosis" (knowing & knowledge) is the next step in Paul Avgerinos' continuing quest for spiritual insight and enlightenment through music. It is a rich musical tapestry of ancient Greek chants, tabla, oud, sarangi, cello and choir.

Katchafire
Revival
Color Me Life
JDUB Records.org
Artist website: Katchafire
New music from the one-and-only Hassidic Reggae Superstar, Matisyahu.

Novalima
Novalima Afro
Chinchiví
Malató
Quango
Artist website: Novalima.net
A tribute to the roots of Afro-Peruvian music.

---

Mark's Playlists |Pick of the Month | World Beat Links | KMSU | MSU, Mankato