playlist for April 7, 2007
host/producer Mark R. Thomas
Øystein Sevåg
Global House
Song From the Planet
Windham
Hill Records
Macdara
The Love Token
The Mighty Dancer
An Dún Aengus
MacDara
Music
Artist
website: MacDara
Ó Conaola
MacDara Ó Conaola is a native of
the Aran Island of Inisheer who is steeped in the local
sean-nos style although accompanied by a fine band he
takes a contemporary approach to what
is traditionally a solo song form. MacDara sings in
both Gaelic and English. The album was co-produced by Máire
Breatnach and recorded in Conamara.
Nanny
Assis
Double Rainbow
Double Rainbow
Blue
Toucan Music
Artist
website: www.nannyassis.com
Nanny Assis started his career as a drummer
and percussionist but branched-out while attending the Federal School
of Arts and Music in Bahia, Brazil. Nanny is well known throughout
the world of Brazilian music.
Cram
129 - Various Artists
20 Ways to Float Through Walls
Hugo:
Tuca' La Louna
Sussan
Deyhim/Bill Laswell: The Candle
and the Moth
Crammed
Discs
"20 Ways to Float Through Walls" is an all-star genre-blending
recording filled with 20 tracks made by musicians from 15 different
countries singing in 10 different languages. From Balkan Gypsy to
Belgium and Brazilian remixes, and from London and Paris to Mali and
the Congo. Compiled by Crammed Disc founder Marc
Hollander.
World
Beat Pick of the Month
Indialucia
Indialucia
Nagpur (Sevillenas/Dhur)
RaSa
Music
Artist website: IndiaLucia
A new musical fusion merging Flamenco with Indian classical music.
Its a fusion with foundation in the legends of both the Gitano and
Rajput peoples.
Slavic
Soul Party
Teknochek Collision
Opa Cupa (opaSupa)
Barbès
Records
New music from the New York City - Balkan Club Music-scene. Opa Cupa
is a traditional song and features the powerful vocals of Eva Salina
Primack.
Lawrence
Blatt
Out of the Woodwork
Standing in the Rain
LMB Music
Artist website: Lawrence
Blatt
cdbaby.com/LawrenceBlatt
Music from guitarist, Lawrence Blatt, an independent musician based
in the San Francisco Bay area. On his new cd, "Out of the Woodwork
Lawrence plays a custom steel-string guitar made by luthier, Edward
Victor Dick and a small bodied-12-fret parlor guitar by Kathy
Wingert
Arvel
Bird, Will Clipman, Mary Redhouse & William Eaton
Ananeah
Red Painted Faces
Singing
Wolf Records
Artist
website: Arvel Bird
Virtuoso
Native American fiddler, Arvel Bird, percussionist extrordinaire ,
Will Clipman, Native American
Vocalist, Mary Redhouse
& Grammy-nominated luthier
wizard,
William Eaton
take Native American music to a new level.
Alex
E. Smith, Cheevers Toppah, Nitanis "Kit" Lanry
Harmony Nights
Dookóóslííd
Canyon
Records
Artist
website: Monjes Budistas
Sweet harmonies of Native American
music from Grammy nominated singers Alex E. Smith and Cheevers Toppah
who are joined by Nitanis "Kit" Landry and featuring special
guests Louie Gonnie, Anthony Wakeman and Thunder Hill.
Blue
Feather - Dunlap - Henke
A Crown of Stars
A Crown of Stars (title track)
Divine
Wind Records
Artist
website: Blue
Feather - Dunlap - Henke
A Crown of Stars is a composition to the theme of discovery from sunset
to dawn. Native American flute, acoustic and electric guitar, lap
slide, fretless bass , keyboards loops, and acoustic percussions create
a mood for discovering the wonders of the Milky Way and beyond.
Putumayo
World Music
A New Groove
K-Os: Crabbuckit
(Canada)
Putumayo
Records
"A New Groove" is a recent offering
from Putumayo World Music exploring an eclectic collection of cool
tracks and underground music.
Music
from the Global Rhythms sampler
Dino Saluzzi/Anja Lechner:
Minguito (from Ojos Negros)
the Global Rhythms sampler.
Tango music from Bandeon Maestro Dino Saluzzi
and Anja Lechner on cello. They are featured artists in the May issue
along with the Saharan group Tinariwen and Chilean singer, Francesca
Ancarola.
Global
Rhythm - World Music, Culture & Lifestyle
Luna
Blanca
Guitar Island
Villa Azur
Confido
Artist
website: Luna
Blanca
Luna
Blanca is a group from Germany that plays a creative mix between the
latin stylings of Ottmar Liebert, Govi, and the rhythms of the Gypsy
Kings... staple sounds, here on The World Beat. Richard Hecks plays
the lead guitar on an instrument by the luthier, Hermann
Hauser III.
Shaman's
Dream
Dance: Dream: Dance:
The Dreamtime Returns
Sounds
True
Artist
website: Shamans
Dream Music
Virtuoso
electronic music
fusion of Ancient instruments, rhythms and tonalities with modern
electronic sounds
Riad
Abdel-Gawad
El Tarab El Aseel (Autochthonic Enchantment)
Qiblah
Incognito
Artist
website: Riad
Abdel-Gawad
Violinist,
Riad Abdel-Gawad composes contemporay Middle
Eastern musical
music based upon
the practices of taqâsim and tarab and played by a neoclassical
Arab ensemble (takht).
Darlene
Koldenhoven
Infinite Voice
Sous le Dôme épais
TimeArt
Recordings
Artist website:
DarleneKoldenhoven.com
Darlene Koldenhoven is a classically
trained singer with a five-octave range. She is most widely recognized
as the memorable vocal soloist, seen by a 1.5 billion worldwide audience
on the PBS special, Yanni, Live at the Acropolis. Darlene Koldenhoven
vocally improvises in classical and non-classical styles. She also
as composes, writes lyrics and plays keyboards.
Guru
Ganesha Singh
Pure Ganesh
In the Light of My Soul
Spirit
Voyage Records
An ethereal Kirtan praise song to the triple
aspects of the One.
Spirit Voyage in on the
road with their "Celebrate
Peace Concerts" World
Tour 2007
featuring the music of Snatam
Kaur and Guru Ganesha Singh.
Karl
Maddison
Tibetan Groove
Wishing Wheel
Gemini
Sun Records
tunes floating on a sonic ocean
of synth and sweet guitar licks driven by the hypnotic percussive
pulse of authentic Tibetan instruments. Its the kind of music that
enables one to sit back, chill-out and imagine a cool-breeze blowing
your hair as you contemplate the dazzling spectacle of a pristine
Himalayan plateau.
Various
Artists
Backspin
A Six Degrees 10 Year Aniversary Project
Ojos
De Brujos: Get Up Stand Up (Barcelona)
Six
Degrees Records
Tony
Tuff
Say Something
Boom Shakatak
Minor7Flat5.com
Reggae & Dancehall veteran,Tony Tuff,
from Kingston Jamaica, has a new cd with 14 fine roots reggae tracks.
Turbulence
Do Good
Freedom Train with Luciano
Minor7Flat5.com
13 new exclusive track album by Turbulence
born Sheldon Campbell. The 2nd album for producer Brotherman is full
of finest modern Roots and has two combinations featuring Luciano
& Higher Trod Family.
Putumayo
World Music
Putumayo World Party
Beau Jocque & the Zydeco
Hi-Rollers: Just One Kiss
(USA)
Putumayo
Records
World Party is the latest offering from
Putumayo World Music. It includes party tracks from around the world
including Italy, Martinique, Denmark, Ghana, Haiti, and Algeria, along
with the Jamaica group Burning Spear, Los Pinguos of Argentina, a
hoppin' track from Beau Jocque and the Zydeco Hi-Rollers, of the USA
and this track by Laurent Hounsavi, of Benin.
Somi
Red Soil in My Eyes
Mbabazi
World
Village Music
Somi was born of Ugandan and Rwandese parents,
she lived in Zambia, Kenya, and Tanzania, but grew-up mostly in the
USA. She sings in a jazz style and performs widely in NYC. Somi was
invited to tour fifteen African countries, sponsored by the International
French Cultural Center. Ten percent of the sales of "Red Soil
in my Eyes" will be donated to
SURF, Rwandan Survivors Fund.
Tinariwen
Aman Iman
Cler Achel
World
Village Music
In the Tamashek language of the Toureg, Saharan
nomads from Mali, Tinariwen
means "empty spaces." The group Tinariwen was formed in
a rebel camp run by Libyan strongman, Muammar Gaddafi,
over two decades
ago, and has been making music in the desert ever since. Their use
of electric guitars was a first in a vast Saharran region where power
is only sporadically available. Their hypnotic desert-blues features
call-and-response vocals among the extended group. Underground cassettes
of their spellbinding music has counseled anti-violence and ethnic
pride among the youth of their war-torn region for over twenty years.
Listen now to music from the deserts beyond Timbuktu...
Amanar
type fonts of the Toureg by Pierre
di Sciullo
Taffetas
Fanta
Fanta (title track)
RaSa
Music
Ibrahima Galissa on Kora and Marc Liebeskind on guitar and shik-guitar
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