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Øystein Sevåg
Global House
Song From the Planet
Windham
Hill Records
Cecile
Corbel
songbook 1.
C'hoant dimein (trad.)
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.
Macdara
The Love Token
Beidh Aonach Amárach
Seothin Seothó (lulluby)
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.
Cármina
My Crescent City
Twenty Three (In the Morning)
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.
Oysterband
Rise Above
Bright Morning Star
Omnium Recordings
Oysterband have forged a style that
owes much to the traditional music of Britain, yet rarely draws directly
from it.
Oysterband artist website
Blackmore's
Night
Paris Moon
Village Lantern
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.
The
Real Tuesday Weld
London Book of the Dead
I Loved London
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.
Ana
Moura
Para Além Da Saudade
Os Búzios
World
Village
Artist
website: www.anamoura.com
New music from Portugese Fado
diva, Ana Moura.
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
Tango
Alexis
Kalofolias & Thanos Amorginos: Gia
Ligo (Greece)
Putumayo
World Music
A
new collection from tango music from around the World.
Priyo
Gypsy
Moon
Vorrei Vorrei
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.
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.
Chambao
Pokito a Poko
Dibjuo en el Aire
www.chambao.es
MySpace:
www.myspace.com/chambao
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.
Billy
Hale
Tales Thrice
Travelled
Under a Saharan Moon
Artist
website: www.billyhalemusic.com
MySpace:
www.myspace.com/billyhalemusic
The
Darbuki Kings
Doumtekastan
Laouto Romántico
www.robinanders.com
The Darbuki Kings have been travelling the
world and tell their saga through a collection of songs from India
to Morocco.
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.
Jeff
Oster
True
Saturn Calling
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.
Various
Artists
Celtic Twilight - Sacred Spirit 7
Mark
O'Connor's Appalachia Waltz Trio: Amazing
Grace
Hearts
of Space
Valley Entertainment
Amazing
Grace played by virtuoso fiddler, Mark O'Connor, from the CD Crossing
Bridges.
Artist
website: Mark O'Connor
Kiran
Ahluwalia
Wanderlust
Yakeenan
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.
Jai
Uttal
Dial M for Mantra
Jai's Dub Shack
Sounds
True
Artist
website: www.jaiuttal.com
MySpace:
Jai Uttal
Jai Uttal is a pioneer in blending the
sacred music of India and Asia with modern elements from the West.
Bachata
Roja
Acoustic Bachata from the Caberet Era
Marino
Perez: O
la pago yo o la paga elia
IASOrecords.com
Artist
website: www.douglasbluefeather.com
Music from the Dominican Republic, an historic
collection of acoustic from the Caberet Era.
Puerto
Plata
Mujer de Cabaret
Dolorita
(a classic Dominican merengue)
Mujer
de Cabaret
(the title track and a song said to express the sentiment at the heart
of a whole generation of boleros)
IASOrecords.com
Artist
website: www.douglasbluefeather.com
Music from the Dominican Republic, an historic
collection of acoustic from the Caberet Era.
World
Beat Pick of the Month
Mala
Rodriguez
Malamarismo
Jura
y gana
Machete
Music
MySpace:
Mala Rodriguez
We will be hearing new a track from Cádiz
Spain, by Mala Rodriguez. From her new cd "Malamarismo."
Zap
Mama
Supermoon
Go Boy
HeadsUp
MySpace:
Zap Mama
Brand new music from Marie Daulne, the
founder and fronting member of Zap Mama since the early 1990s.
Luciano
Tell It From The Heart
Bombs
Freedom Train
Minor
7 Flat 5
Jamaican
Reggae singer Luciano tells it from the heart, questions the logic
of destruction and prays for peace and freedom, in the tradition of
a Jah Messenger.
Youssou
N'Dour
Rokku Mi Rokka
Baay Faal
Nonesuch
Artist
Website : Youssou N'Dour
Coming-up...music from a new record by Senegalese
Superstar, Youssou N'Dour
Habib
Koite & Bamada
Afriki
Africa
Cumbancha
MySpace:
Habib Koite
From the latest recordig by Malian musician,
Habib Koité.
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