playlist for December 29, 2007
host/producer Mark R. Thomas
www.myspace.com/worldbeat_kmsu
A year-end show featuring favorite recordings
from previous months.
Øystein Sevåg
Global House
Song From the Planet
Windham
Hill Records
Cecile
Corbel
songbook 1.
Le vent m'emporte (c.corbel)
Keltia
Musique
Artist
website: Cecile
Corbel
MySpace:
Cecile
Corbel
Cécile Corbel is from Bretagne,
the Celtic region in the north-west of France. As
a child, she traveled all over Brittany with her parents, who were
puppeteers. She plays the guitar but discovered and fell in love with
the Celtic harp in her teens. We will be hearing music from "songbook
1," her self-produced album now on the label, Keltia Musique.
World
Beat Pick of the Month
Cármina
My Crescent City
December Song
Long
Tale 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. We will be hearing 'Blessed
are the Broken' a
song that recently won the
"Song for Peace Competition" at the Tipperary
International Peace Convention.
Anne Roos
A Light in the Forest
The Forest Nymph:
Song of the Woods: & The Tree in the Woods
Artist
website: CelticHarpMusic.com
Cambria Master Recordings
Celtic
Harp music from, Ann Roos and company. Her new
cd includes a 30 page book illustrations of fairies,
forest nymphs and dancing bears. It is one of
the most beautifully packaged cds I've ever seen
and would certainly make a nice gift for Celtic
Harp fans. We will be hearing The Forest Nymph
- Song of the Woods & The Tree in the Woods"
and, "The Gold Ring."
Various
Artists
Celtic Twilight - Sacred Spirit 7
Cathie
Ryan: Lament
of the Three Marys
Hearts
of Space
Valley Entertainment
A
beautiful song from Combs
.
Artist
website: Cathie
Ryan
Bukkene
Bruse
The Stone Chair
Folketone fra Sunnmøre (Folk tune
from Sunnmore)
Northside
Some hauntng music featuring Annbjorg Lien
on Hardanger fiddle.
The
Real Tuesday Weld
London Book of the Dead
It's a Wonderful Life
I Lucifer
The Life and Times of the Clerkenwell
Kid
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. My November
pick of the month and a personal favorite that stands up to multiple
listening.
Les
Chansons de la nouvelle scene francais
le pop 3
Stefie Shock: Un
Homme a la Mer (Quebec, from "Le Décor)
Artist
website: www.lepop.de
World
Beat Pick of the Month
Le Pop Musik
Moussu
T e lei Jovents
Madmemoiselle Marseille
Le cul sur le perron
Le
Chant Du Monde/Harmonia Mundi
Niña
Pastori
Joyas Prestadas
Vivir sin aire
Sony BMG Entertainment España
Club
de fans: Niña Pastori
Nina Pastori is a new voice form
Spain with flamenco training and a pop sensibility...
The
Darbuki Kings
Doumtekastan
Traditional
www.robinanders.com
The Darbuki Kings have been travelling the
world and tell their saga through a collection of songs from India
to Morocco.
Ana
Moura
Para Além Da Saudade
Não Fui Eu
World
Village
Artist
website: www.anamoura.com
New music from Portugese Fado
diva, Ana Moura.
World
Beat Pick of the Month
Rodrigo
y Gabriela
rodrigo y gabriela
Tamacun
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.
Chambao
Pokito a Poko
Mi Primo Jaun
www.chambao.es
World
Beat Pick of the Month
The third release by Chambao is an incredible fusion of flamenco and
hip hop sensibilities. The included DVD takes the viewer to all-night
revelry on a remote stretch of sand dunes, presumably some where in
the south of Spain.
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.
Priyo
Gypsy
Moon
Munderavera
Sounds
True
Artist
website: www.priyoandgypsymoon.com
mySpace:
www.myspace.com/priyoandgypsymoon
Priyo was born and raised in Sicily,
Italy but has been travelling the world for over twenty-five years
sharing his unique blend of Afro-Mediterranean Gypsy trance music.
Its a spicy blend of Spanish/Gypsy rumba, Gypsy Flamenco guitar, Italian
melody and romantica, African tribal trance and Middle Eastern scales
and rhythms.
Omar
Akram
Secret Journey
Nomadic Rhapsody
Real
Music
Artist
website: Omar
Akram
MySpace:
Omar Akram
Omar Akram grew up traveling around the
world as the son of a United Nations diplomat living in such diverse
locales as France, Cuba, Afghanistan and the Czech Republic. His melodies
are presented within tapestry-like arrangements interweaving his acoustic
grand piano with acoustic guitar, violin, duduk, flute and ethnic
percussion.
George
Dalaras
A Portrait
Xenos/Stranger
Metro
Blue
Artist
website: www.transkapela.com
George
Dalaras is known as the most important popular artist in the modern
history of Greece.
Marisa
Monte
Infinito Particular
Até Parece (it almost seems)
Metro
Blue
Artist
website: Marisa Monte
Brazilian
singer Marisa Monte recently released two new records. We will play
the title tracks from both records, here on the World Beat. (liner
notes contain the Portuguese lyrics along with English translation)
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.
Dean
& Dudley Evenson present
Healing the Holy Land (a musical
journey of faith)
Jai
Uttal & the Pagan Love Orchestra: Shalom
Soundings
of the Planet
A
synthesis of cultures bringing together Jewish, Christian, & Muslim
music of the Middle East.
Michael
Stribling
Another Day in Paradise
Asian Dawn
www.leela-music.com
Reflective music by Michael Stribling.
Kiran
Ahluwalia
Wanderlust
Jo Dil
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.
Putumayo
- various artists
Tango
Fredrico
Aubele: Pena
(Argentina)
Putumayo
World Music
A
new collection from tango music from around the World.
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.
Bachata
Roja
Acoustic Bachata from the Caberet Era
Juan
Bautista: Estoy
aqui pero no soy yo
IASOrecords.com
Artist
website: www.douglasbluefeather.com
Music from the Dominican Republic, an historic
collection of acoustic from the Caberet Era.
Andy Palacio & the Garifuna
Collective
Wátina
Ámunyengü (In Times to Come)
Cumbancha
Stonetree Records
The Garifuna people are a people
and a language without a country. They originally settled on St Vincents,
but were scattered along the mainland coast after being driven out
by the Spanish. Today they live in Belize, Nicaragua, Guatemala, Honduras,
and various places in South America yet always in the minority. Wátina
is the first Garifuna record that I've played on the World Beat. We
hope to hear more from Andy Palacio & the Garifuna Collective
in the future.
World
Beat Pick of the Month
Marcus
James
Timbuktoubab
Hey Gabriel
Firenze
Records
World
Beat Pick of the Month
New
music from Marcus James, recorded in Timbuktu, Mali.
Timbuktoubab.com
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