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Øystein Sevåg
Global House
Song From the Planet
Windham Hill Records

Bill Leslie
I Am a River
The Waterman
Artist website: www.BillLeslie.com
Bill Leslie is an environmental journalist, working out of North Carolina, who works his love of the environment to his musical compositions. His latest record includes 15 new compositions.

Charlotte McHatton
Chants of the Ascenté
Peace
Ascenté Records
Chants of the Ascenté is singer-songwriter, Charlotte McHatton's first CD recording. Charlotte's Celtic peaceful melodies and poetic lyrics enchant listeners encourage the human spirit with their heavenly sounds....
Artist website: Charlotte McHatton

Bodhi
Trans Ukraine
Crimea II
ShamanicFlute.com
Bodhi K. Setchko takes us on a shamanic flute journey across his native land, Ukraine.

Gogol Bordello
Gypsy Punk - Underdog Worldstrike
Avenue B
SideOneDummy
Artist website: www.gogolbordello.com

Gogol Bordello
Multi Kontra Culti vs. Irony
Baro Foro
SideOneDummy
Artist website: www.gogolbordello.com
Gogol Bordello mixes punk, ska, jazz, and the traditional Roma music of Ukraine, where band leader Eugene Hütz grew up. Hütz also acts and can be seen staring, as the Ukranian translator, alongside Elijah Woods, in the movie
Everything is Illuminated

Hazmat Modine
Bahamut
Yesterday Morning
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.

Bob Dylan
Modern Times
Workingman's Blues #2
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.

George Winston
Gulf Coast Blues & Impressions
New Orleans Shall Rise Again
Windham Hill Records
All proceeds go the the Dancing Cat Benefit Fund to support relief organizations such as Common Ground Relief and ACORN

Art Turner
Sonora
The Blue Dome of the Sky
Red Tail Records
Artist website: Art Turner
New acoustic guitar music from Art Turner.

Putumayo World Music
Acoustic Africa
Diogal: Sore (Senegal)
Eneida Marta: Mindjer Doce Mel (Guinea-Bissau)
Vusi Mahlasela: Basimanyana (South Africa)
Putumayo Records
"Acoustic Africa" collects some of Africa's best singer-songwriters, performing beautiful songs with an acoustic flavor. Some tracks will keep you coming back for more...
Global Rhythm - November 06
features Vusi Mahlasela
Global Rhythm - World Music, Culture & Lifestyle

Putumayo World Music
Radio Latino
Sacha Nairobi: Princesa (Venezuela)
Putumayo Records
Putumayo's "Radio Latino" collects some of the best contemporary Latin pop and alternative music.

Babasonicos
Anoche
Yegua
Babasonicos.com
Babasonicos is a Latin rock band from Buenos Aires, Argentina.

Marta Topferova
Flor Nocturna
Gaita De Los Chiquitos (gaita of the little ones)
World Village
Artist website: www.martatopferova.com
Marta Topferova is a deeply thoughtful singer-songwriter whoes music is a pan-Latin fusion.

Vayo Raimondo
Tango Legends
Tinta Roja
Artist website: www.vayoraimondo.com
Tango music, recorded in Montevideo Uruguay. Singer Vayo Raimondo is accompanied by Toto Damario, who was a friend and colleague of Astor Piazzola at the time they were both emerging as great artists of the bandoneon; an instrument he's played for seven decades, starting at age fourteen.
Pantaleón Records

Mayra Casales
Mujer Ardiente (woman on fire)
Paisajes Cubano
Afrasia Productions
Mayra Casales on Congas.

Rodrigo y Gabriela
rodrigo y gabriela
Stairway to Heaven
Ato Records
The debut recording by Rodrigo Sanchez and Gabriela Quintero, two fast fingered Dublin-based Mexicans with a unique approach to the acoustic guitar. Their music straddles both world and rock music, steeped in Latin influence. Their cd includes a bonus DVD featuring live performances, interviews, and a tutorial of their unique acoustic style.

R. Carlos Nakai
Reconnections
Crystal Radiance
Canyon Records
Native America flutist, R. Carlos Nakai weaves cedar flute music with the luminous guitar work of William Eaton, and undulating electronic rhythms of Cliff Sarde, along with Native American singer, Randy Wood to reconnect the past and present.

Glen Ahhaitty
True Lies From the Road
- Oklahoma Round Dance Songs -
Daddy's Coming Home
Canyon Records
From the Kiowa, Commanche and Cherokee tribes of Oklahoma, Glen Ahhaitty's songs spin tales inspired by life on the Pow-Wow highway.

David Arkenstone
Ambient Cafe
Metro
GeminiSunRecords.com
Artist website: David Arkenstone

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.

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.

Soulfood & Jadoo
Tantric Chill
Sensan
Moodfood Records
Transglobal electronica group Jadoo (the Persian word for magic) toured for over six months in Turkey, Uzbekistan, Malta, Corsica, and Sardinia. Collaboration with Soulfood creates a global chill mix that includes Corsican chants.

Shiva Rey
Nataraja
Benjy Wertheimer: Shiva Invocation
Sounds True
Hypnotic grooves from masters of the downtempo/chill-out/lounge & global electronica music movement, from around the world.

Gino Foti
Bhavachakra
Salayatana
NetDotMusic.com
Vedic chant from the manuscript, Brahmananda Valli
Gino Foti: MIDI Bass Guitar, Keyboards, Synthesizers, Loops & Samples.
Sri Sastri: Vedic chanting
Artist website: Gino Foti

Sierra Leones - Refugee All Stars
Living Like a Refugee
Living Like a Refugee (title track)
Smile
ninemillion.org
Nine million children are refugees - Right Now -
Help them play, let them learn...
ninemillion.org
World Beat Pick of the Month
An album dedicated to all the innocent people living as refugees throughout the world and to those organizations and individuals who work tirelessly on their behalf. Group leader, Reuben M. Koroma writes most of the lyrics.

Tartit
Abacabok
Ansari
Crammed
Artist website: http://www.myspace.com/tartit
Music from the vast expanses of the Sahara desert by the Tuareg band, Tartit. The group consists of five women and four men who reside in the Timbuktu region of Mali. They play hypnotic trance-inducing music: the women sitdown and sing and play cyclic rhythms on their tinde drums while the men sing and play acoustic and electric guitars.

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