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
World Music.net
subtitle: harp, fiddle, flute & guitar: Celtic Connections

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
Maria Pierantoni Giua: Petali e Mirto
Putumayo Records
Italian Café captures the post WWII era of La Dolce Vita (The Sweet Life) when fashion, celebrity and easy living ruled the day. Italian Cafés and night clubs bounced to a musical blend of traditional melodies and the new era's lively swing.

Moussu T e lei jovents
Madmemoiselle Marseille
Va, navega
Bolega Banjo
Le Chant Du Monde/Harmonia Mundi
World Beat Pick of the Month

Damian
In Concert from Bucharest
Damian's Fire
Lover's Rhapsody
Artist website: Damian
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.

Bliss
{quiet Letters}
kissing
wish you were there
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.

Rough Guides
The Rough Guide to the Music of Balkan Gypsies
Taraf De Metropulitana: Espresso (Romania)
World Music.net
subtitle: virtuoso violins to energetic brass bands: transcending borders

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.'

Andre Feriante
Bohemian Boulevard
Spanish Rhapsody
Artemis Records/Triloka
Artist website: Andre Feriante

Martires D'el Compas
No Papeles - No Papers
Chu Lailo La Leilo
Harmonia Mundi/World Village

Ozone layer
Frozen Paint on Boiling Canvas
The Sprawl
Ozone Player
New synthesizer music, from Finland, by Otso Pakarinen.

Rough Guides
The Rough Guide to tito Puente
Oye Como Va
World Music.net
¿Oye como va? salsa vibes of a mambo king

Sierra Maestra
Son: Soul of a Nation
Al Vaiven De Mi Carreta
World Music.net
Artist website: Sierra-Maestra.net
Sierra Maestra is Cuba's leading son group and are responsible for the revival of the son style, the bedrock of Cuban music.

Rough Guides
The Rough Guide to the Music of Brazil: Rio De Janeiro
Beth Carvalho: Folhas Secas
World Music.net
Samba & bossa nova: Brazil's musical hotbed

Agatsuma
Eternal Songs
Time Traveller
Domo
Hiromitsu Agatsuma plays Tsugaru-Shamisen

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

Ithikon Akmeotaton
Ti Tha Paisonme
Ena omorfo amaxi me dio aloga
Octalogic Music Production
Artist website: ithikon akmeotaton
A project lead by Greek musician, Kostas Karagiozidis.

Paul Avgerinos
Phos HiLARON
O Heavenly World
Magnatune
Artist website: roundSkyMusic.com

Dechen Shak-Dagsay
Dewa Che - Universal Healing Power of Tibetan Chant
Namgyel-Ma
New Earth Records
Artist website: Tibet House
The Tibetan phrase "Dewa Che" means "the great peace." These mantras are sung as an offering of inner peace to promote the power of self-healing to listeners.

R. Carlos Nakai & Keola Beamer
Our Beloved Land
Aia I Moloka'i Ku'u 'Iwa
New Vibes Music
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
title track
Pate pate
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

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
Title Track
Roir-usa
Artist website: Revolutionsound

Waldemar Bastos
Re-nascence
Otro Tempo Novo
Times Square Records
Artist website: Waldemar Bastos
An interesting interview with Waldemar Bastos on BBC's, "The World."

Putumayo World Music
Swing Around the World
The Cool Crooners of Bulawayo: Van Enkulu (Zimbabwe)
Putumayo Records
The musical soundtrack for a global swing dance party.

Afropop Worldwide
Afropop Stars Salute - Africare
Kékélé: Issake Shango (Congo)
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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