Øystein Sevåg
Global House
Song From the Planet
Windham
Hill Records
Cármina
My Crescent City
Blessed are the Broken
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.
Blackmore's
Night
Paris Moon
Its Good to be Back Home Again
Artist
website: www.BlackmoresNight.com
www.SPV.de
MySpace:
www.myspace.com/blackmoresnight1
Rennaissance rock music from former Deep Purple guitarist, Richie
Blackmore, and vocalist, Candice Night, and their merry band of minstrels.
From their live recording in Paris... a Rennaissance-style party song
to warm your winter night.
Anne
Roos
A Light in the Forest
The Forest Nymph: Song of the Woods:
& The Tree in the Woods
The Gold Ring
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."
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."
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
The
Real Tuesday Weld
London Book of the Dead
Last Words
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.
Transkapela
Carpathian Music
Walc Meritz'a
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.
Ana
Moura
Para Além Da Saudade
Rosa Cor De Rosa
Primeira Vez
World
Village
Artist
website: www.anamoura.com
New music from Portugese Fado
diva, Ana Moura.
World
Beat Pick of the Month
Café
Tacuba
Sino
Tengo Toda
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
Dichoso
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
Muchachita del Oriente
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.
Omar
Akram
Secret Journey
title track
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.
Brothers
of the Baladi
A Time of Peace
Christmas
Songs - Middle Eastern Instruments
We
Three Kings
Oh Little Town of Bethlehem
Baladi
Productions
A
collection of Christmas songs played on Middle Eastern instruments.
We will be hearing
Putumayo
- various artists
Israel
Etti
Ankri: Nilkach
Meemeni Sod (My Secret was Taken)
Itay
Pearl: Chipopo
Putumayo
World Music
A
new collection from Putyumayo of music from Israel. Including this
song from Tunisian native, Etti Ankri "My
Secret was Taken."
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
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.
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.
Michael
Stribling
Another Day in Paradise
At the End of the Day
www.leela-music.com
Some beautiful electronic music by Michael
Stribling.
Johannes
Linstead & Nicholas Gunn
Encanto
Costa De La Luz
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
Gentle Thunder
Opening the Gate
Heart
of the Eagle
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.
Douglas
Blue Feather
Spirit of the Flute
Two Worlds
Birds Eye Music
Artist
website: www.douglasbluefeather.com
A collection of peaceful solo Native American
flute songs, played from the heart by multi award winning flutist,
Douglas Blue Feather.
Katchafire
Say What You're Thinking
Say What You're Thinking
Quango
MySpace:
www.myspace.com/katchafireofficial
Putumayo
- various artists
World Hits
Jimmy
Cliff : The
Harder They Come
Putumayo
World Music
A
new collection of chart-topping hits from around the globe by Putumayo
World
Music;
featuring one a reggae classic, by Jimmy Cliff, "The Harder They
Come."
Bonedaddys
Waterslide
Hula Girl (Dancing on My Dash)
thebonedaddys.com
The Bonedaddys, are L.A.'s original "Worldbeatniks"
(since 1985) and one of the very first American bands to be described
as Worldbeat..
Coming-up...music from a couple of Africa's
greatest muscial ambassadors, Oliver Mtukudzi, from Zimbabwe and Malian
guitarist, Habib Koité.
Youssou
N'Dour
Rokku Mi Rokka
Give and Take
Nonesuch
Artist
Website : Youssou N'Dour
Coming-up...music from a new cd by one of
Africa's greatest musical ambassadors, Senegalese Superstar, Youssou
N'Dour.
Two
Siberians
Two Siberians
On the Tundra
HEADS
UP
Artist website: Two
Siberians
New music from the tundras of Siberia by
Yuru Matveyev on electric guitar and Artyom Yakushenko on electric
violin.
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