Øystein Sevåg
Global House
Song From the Planet
Windham Hill Records

Rough Guides
The Rough Guide to Celtic Music
Seamus Begley & Jim Murray: An Seanduine
Lúnasa: The Walrus
World Music.net
subtitle: harp, fiddle, flute & guitar: Celtic Connections

Ann Roos
Mermaids & Mariners
Metal Man
Who Can Sail Without the Wind
Cambria
Artist website: www.celticharpmusic.com
Ann Roos on Celtic harp, in an ensemble including; Dorothy Hawkinson - fiddle, Alan Fuller - guitar, Michael Frost - viola, & Riggy Rackin, on concertina.

Jessie Allen Cooper
Pacific Lounge
St. Patrick"
Artist website: cooper Sound Waves
Prepare yourself for some sax & piano chill-out music. Sit back and relax to the latest from Jessie Allen Cooper.

Putumayo World Music
Italian Café
Daniele Silvestri: Le Cose in Comune
Putumayo Records
Italian Café has been a real summer favorite, sit-back, relax an' pour another glass of chianti...

Moussu T e lei jovents
Madmemoiselle Marseille
Va, navega!
Malurós qu'a un trabalh
As-ti pescat la sirena
Le Chant Du Monde/Harmonia Mundi
World Beat Pick of the Month

Boris Kovac & La Campanella
World After History: a Pannonian-Mediterranean Round-Trip
Limping Waltz
Piranha
Boris Kovac is a composer, instrumentalist and multimedia artist, from the Vojvodina part of former Yugoslavia. Who's been dubbed "the king of apocalyptical cabaret.'

Damian
In Concert from Bucharest
Ocarina
Erdelezi
Artist website: www.officialDamian.com
By age 3, Damian had already begun experimenting with a variety of instruments including piano, cymbalum, double bass and drums. At ten, Damian decided to focus his energies on mastering the pan flute and by the time he was 14, he'd won five consecutive first Gold Medal prizes at the National Festival of Romania and performed on national television.

Rough Guides
The Rough Guide to the Music of Balkan Gypsies
Esma Redzepova & Usnija Jasarova: Romano Oro (Macedonia)
World Music.net
subtitle: virtuoso violins to energetic brass bands: transcending borders

Kostas Karagiozidis, Andrés Hernández-Alba & Markus Faller
Mediterra neo
F Major
Octalogic Music Production
Artist website: ithikon akmeotaton
A project lead by Greek multi-instrumentalist, Kostas Karagiozidis.

Bliss
{quiet Letters}
Sleep Will Come
Quango
Artist website: Bliss
Bliss is an international chill-out pop music collective from Denmark, Sweden and Guinea-Bissau, West Africa and release their material on the Danish label, "music for dreams." Sit back, chill-out and experience bliss.

Martires D'el Compas
No Papeles - No Papers
Negrapata
Harmonia Mundi/World Village
Recorded in Valencia

Ignacio "Nachito" Herrera
Bembé En Mi Casa
Nacho's Pilón
Estás En Mi Corozón
FS-Productions
Artist website: www.nachito.net
Cuban composer, pianist, arranger and band-leader, Nachito Herrera who now calls Minneapolis Minnesota his home.

Los Pleneros de la 21
Para Todos Ustedes
Madame Calalú (plena guaracha)
Smithsonian Folkway Recordings
The bomba and plena are the heartbeat of Afro-Puerto Rican music. New Yorks acclaimed Los Pleneros de la 21 wrap these drumming, singing and dancing traditions into creative and fresh arrangements for a new generation.

Andre Feriante
Bohemian Boulevard
Trancendental Lane
www.cdbaby.com/cd/feriante
Artist website: Andre Feriante
Seattle-based, Italian born Feriante is a Segovia-trained Guitar master. His improvisational style blends Flamenco, Classical and Brazilian styles.

Kiran Ahluwalia
Kiran Ahluwalia
Jhanjra
Koka
Triloka/Artemis
Artist website: Kiran Music
The International debut of award-winning Indian vocalist Kiran Ahluwalia. Kiran is a composer of contemporary ghazals, a form of music, based in poetry, from the Indian subcontinent . Kiran's compositions are perhaps the first indiginous North American ghazals.

Amílcar
Vacuuming the Forest
title track
New Vibes Music
Indegenous environmental sounds subtly mixed with instrumental melodies to create some exquisite natural music.

R. Carlos Nakai & Keola Beamer
Our Beloved Land
Aia I Moloka'i Ku'u 'Iwa
Canyon Records
A unique collaboration between R. Carlos Nakai on Native American flute and Keola Beamer on Hawaiian slack key guitar. Featuring traditional Hawaiian vocals by Keola and Moanalani Beamer.

Te Vaka
Ki Mua
Kau tufuga fai vaka
Warm Earth Records
Artist website: Te Vaka
* fourteen songs and I dig them all *
Julie Foa'i
Warm Earth Records
Ph: +64 9 817 4639 - Fax: +64 9 817 3624
P.O.Box 60057, Titirangi, Auckland 7, New Zealand

Rough Guides
The Rough Guide to the Music of Brazil: Rio De Janeiro
Fernanda Porto: Só Tinha De Ser Com Você
World Music.net
Samba & bossa nova: Brazil's musical hotbed

Sahjkaya (saj-ka-ya)
Divine Intervention
Nuclear Weapons
Coral Music
A song questioning the use of nuclear weapons, on this the 60th Anniversary for the rememberance of Hiroshima and Nagasaki.

Dr. Israel
Inna City Pressure
Inna City
Armageddon Time
Roir-usa
Artist website: Revolutionsound
The re-release of Dr. Israel's 1998 landmark album Inna City Pressure fuses dub/reggae, jungle/drum n' bass, hip-hop, rock, punk & metal.

Afropop Worldwide
Afropop Stars Salute - Africare
Gidigidi Majimaji: Ting Bad Malo (Kenya)
Afropop Worldwide
What better seque to Afropop Worldwide than an album produced by the Afropop organization, with generous assistance from their sponsor, ChevronTexaco

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