Øystein Sevåg
Global House
Song From the Planet
Windham
Hill Records
Cármina
My Crescent City
Hungry Hill
Long
Tail Recordings
www.carmina.co.uk
MySpace:
www.myspace.com/carminamusic
Carmina is Pippa Marland - vocals, saxes,
and whistles along with Rob King - acoustic guitar, mandola, bodhran
along with a host of talented musicans. Their song 'Blessed are the
Broken' on 'My Crescent City' recently won the Tipperary International
Peace Convention Song for Peace Competition.
Smithfield
Fair
20 for 20
Twentieth Anniversary Celebration
A Fine Homecoming Day
www.smithfieldfair.com
MySpace:
Smithfieldfair
Smithfield Fair are traditional Scottish/Celtic
band, based in Baton Rouge, LA who are celebrating their 20th Anniversary
with the release of their recording titled, "20 for 20."
Lisa
Lynne & George Tortorelli
Love & Peace
Serenity Road
New
Earth Records
MySpace:
Lisa Lynne
A lovely interlude called "Serenity
Road," by Lisa Lynne on Celtic harp and George Tortorelli, on
bamboo flute.
The
Real Tuesday Weld
I Lucifer
Still Terminally Ambivalent Over You
London Book of the Dead
I Believe
Ruth, Roses and Revolvers
Six
Degrees Records
MySpace:
The Real Tuesday
Weld
Some quirky music and ambient sound loops
from London musician, Stephen Coates, who fronts The
Real Tuesday Weld, and is also known as the Clerkenwell Kid, in
the mythic London of his creation. Visit Radio
Clerkenwell to hear the Clerkenwell Kid podcasts.
World
Beat Pick of the Month
Transkapela
Carpathian Music
Stetl Tango
ARC
Music
Artist
website: www.transkapela.com
Transkapela,
a four-piece Klezmer band play music as it was played in the 19th
and 20th centuries by itenerant musicians in the villages of the Carpathian
mountains.
Putumayo
- various artists
Israel
Rona
Kenan & Gidi Gov: Ha'rikud
Ha'muzar Shel Ha'lev
David
Broza : Srochim
(Dah-veed Broh-zah)
Putumayo
World Music
A
new collection from Putyumayo of music from Israel. Including a song
from (Dah-veed
Broh-zah),
one of Israel's most beloved singer-songwriters - from
(ROH-nah KEH-nahn & GEE-dee gov) this
is: "Strange Dance of the Heart."
Cindy
Combs
Sunny Rain- Guitar Solos
Kamelenahenaheokekai
Dancing
Cat Records
Some
beautiful from the
slack key lady of
Kauai,
Cindy Combs .
Artist
website: Slack
Key Lady
Available:
www.kkcr.org
Maria
Rita
Samba
Meu
Maltratar, não é direito
Warner
Music Latina
Maria Rita is an energetic rising Samba
singer . Each of the fourteen songs on "Samba Meu" resonate
with samba soul.
Café
Tacuba
Sino
Tengo Toda
Vámonos
Universal
Music Latino
Café Tacuba, often spelled Café
Tacvba, is a Grammy Award and Latin Grammy Award-winning musical group
from Naucalpan, Mexico, founded in 1989, and since then have had the
same musical lineup.
Artist
website: Cafe
Tacuba
MySpace:
Cafe
Tacuba
Gloria
Estefan
90 Millas
Lo Nuestro
BurgundyRecords.com
MySpace:
www.myspace.com/gloriaestefan
Artist
website: www.GloriaEstefan.com
Gloria
Estefan's new recording, "90
Millas," celebrates
Cuban and Hispanic music and culture with 14 new songs that include
guest performances by Cachao, Paquito D'Rivera, Jose Feliciano, Andy
Garcia, Johnny Pacheco, Arturo Sandovol.
The
Cuban Cowboys
Cuban Candles
El Capitan
Universal
Music Latino
Based
in Florida, The Cuban
Cowboys write contemporary lyrics about growing-up in Florida played
with a surf rock sensibility.
Artist
website: Cuban
Cowboys
MySpace:
Cuban
Cowboys
The
Roots of Chicha
Psychedelic Cumbias from Peru
Carinito
La
Danza de Los Mirlos
Barbes
Records
MySpace:
www.myspace.com/rootsofchicha
Artist
website: Chica
Chicha
started out in the late 60's, in the oil-boom cities of the Peruvian
Amazon. Cumbias Amazonicas, as they were first known, were loosely
inspired by Colombian cumbias but incorporated the distinctive pentatonic
scales of Andean melodies, some Cuban guajiras, and the psychedelic
sounds of surf guitars, wah-wah pedals, farfisa organs and moog synthesizers.
CéU
Remixed EP
Roda (Bombay Dub Orchestra's Grateful Dub Radio Mix)
Six
Degrees Records.com
MySpace:
www.myspace.com/ceuambulante
From
São Paulo, Brazil a music culture where remixes reign, here
is Ceu for the second time around. This time with the Bombay Dub Orchestra
at the controls.
Funky-C
Joya
CITYFUNKTASMA
Sonic360.com
MySpace:
www.myspace.com/funkyc
Artist
website: Funky
C
Santiago
Chile musician, Funky-C was a pioneer of the 90s Latin funk revival
in South America. He dedicates his new album, "Joya" to
his "inspirational master," none other than the recently
deceased, Master of Funk, James Brown.
Jeff
Oster
True
Tibet
Retso Records
Artist
website: jeffoster.com
MySpace:
Jeff Oster
Trumpet and Flugelhorn player, Jeff Oster
has created some exhilarating compositions on his new recording, "TRUE,"
produced by William Ackerman.
Anoushka
Shankar & Karsh Kale
Breathing Under Water
Slither
Reprise
MySpace:
Anouska Shankar
MySpace:
Karsh Kale
MySpace:
Sting
Manhattan Records
anouskashankar.com
karshkale.com
On "Breathing Under Water," Anoushka Shankar's traditional
Indian sitar playing merges with Karsh Kale's electronica and collaboration
of others including Ravi Shankar and Sting and Nora
Jones.
Kiran
Ahluwalia
Wanderlust
Jo Di
Marey Mathay
Times
Square Records
Artist
website: www.kiranmusic.com
MySpace:
Kiran Ahluwalia
Kiran Ahlwalia studied under Vithal Rao,
one of the last living masters of ghazal—a form of sung poetry that
originated in Persia 1000 years ago and reached India 400 years later.
This song-form harkens back to an era when princes and kings employed
court musicians to put music to poetry.
Karunesh
Global Spirit
Call of the Tribes (remix)
Oreade
Music
MySpace:
Karunesh
Karunesh is a World Fusion music stlyist
who mixes language, sounds, and textures from around the globe and
lets them flow and dance together.
Mickey
Hart & Zakir Hussain
Global Drum Project
Dances With Wood
ShoutFactory.com
Artist
website: www.mickeyhart.net
Mickey Hart and Zakir Hussain began their musical partnership with
the 1970s world fusion experiment Diga Rhythm Band. They are back
with a fresh collaboration of tranced-out grooves, elegant electronic
programming and hypnotic tuned percussion.
Johannes
Linstead & Nicholas Gunn
Encanto
Torre Del Oro
Gemini
Sun
Next-up the fiery Spanish guitar of Johannes
Linstead combined with the passionate South American flute stylings
of Nicholas Gunn.
Artist
website: JohannesLinstead.com
Artist
website: NicholasGunn.com
Talitha
Mackenzie
Indian Summer
Willow
www.talithamackenzie.com
MySpace:
Talitha
Mackenzie
Available
via Sonas Multimedia
In a clear strong voice, Talitha Mackenzie
sings songs of the Indian Summer.
Gentle Thunder
Opening the Gate
Full
Spectrum Lighting
GTProductions
MySpace:
Gentle Thunder
Gentle Thunder has performed
in the U.K., Canada, U.S., Greenland and Europe and has an international
following with her distinctive style and heart-filled presence.
Katchafire
Say What You're Thinking
Say What You're Thinking
Quango
MySpace:
www.myspace.com/katchafireofficial
Putumayo
- various artists
World Hits
Peter
Tosh with Mick Jagger: You
Gotta Walk an' Don't Look Back
Putumayo
Kids
A
new collection of chart-topping hits from around the globe by Putumayo
World
Music;
featuring one of my all-time favorites, Peter Tosh and Mick Jagger
singing "You Gotta Walk an' Don't Look Back."
David
Kirton
Time for Change
Green Camoflage
Birds Eye Music
Artist
website: www.davidkirton.com
MySpace:
David Kirton music
David Kirton, from Barbados sings in a unique
blend of roots-rock-reggae, with soul and pop. "Time for Change"
is his third album.
Leni
Stern
Africa
Ami
LeniStern.com
MySpace:
www.myspace.com/lenistern
New music recorded in Bamako Mali. Leni
Stern on guitar and vocals.
Coming-up...music from a couple of Africa's
greatest muscial ambassadors, Oliver Mtukudzi, from Zimbabwe and Malian
guitarist, Habib Koité.
Habib
Koite & Bamada
Afriki
Africa
Cumbancha
MySpace:
Habib Koite
Coming-up...music from a couple of Africa's
greatest muscial ambassadors, Oliver Mtukudzi, from Zimbabwe and Malian
guitarist, Habib Koité.
Oliver Mtukudzi
Tsimba itsoka
Ungade' we?
HEADS
UP
Artist
website: www.tukumusic.co.zw
MySpace:
www.myspace.com/olivermtukudzi
New "Tuku music" from Oliver Mtukudzi,
recorded in Zimbabwe.
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