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Øystein Sevåg
Global House
Song From the Planet
Windham
Hill Records
Uxía
eterno navegar
Berenguela
World
Village / Harmonia Mundi
MySpace: www.myspace.com/uxiasenlle
New music from Pontevedra in the Galician
region of Spain., although this particular tune has a Cape Verdean
feel.
Jeff
Johnson & Brian Dunning
Dreams of a Christmas Night
Down the Chimney
Ark
Records
Washington state-based, Jeff Johnson and Brian Dunning celebrate the
Celtic spirit of Christmas concerts at churches and schools around
the state and with their new cd, "Dreams of a Christmas Night."
Cármina
My Crescent City
December Song (Christmas Song 2008)
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.
Amy
Kortuem
The Month of January
Nine Waves
AmyKortuem.com
A composition by Southern Minnesota harper Amy Kortuem. This year
her Christmas concert is titled Musicorum, " A Choral Christmas."
Amy will be performing on Friday Dec 12th 7:30 pm at the First Presbeterian
Church and at Old Main Village, on Sunday Dec 14th, at 3:00 pm.
Emma
Shipplin
Carmine Meo
Spente Le Stelle
MySpace: www.myspace.com/shipplinemma
Emma Shapplin started her music career
in classical music but moved to hard rock and then decided to create
her own style, a combination of archaic opera and modern trance and/or
pop music.
MOUSSU
T e lei jovents
Home Sweet Home
Le divan
Le
Chant du Monde
Artist website : moussut.ohaime.com
MySpace: www.myspace.com/moussuteleijovents
Moussu T e lei Jovents consists of the
founder of Massilia Sound System together with its guitarist and a
famous Brazilian percussionist. The group takes its inspiration from
Marseille in the thirties, with songs, of the sea, harbours and shanties
that reek of the briny air, shipyard cranes and rocky inlets.
Diego
Amador
rio de los canasteros
Mi flamenca
World
Village / Harmonia Mundi
Artist website : www.diegoamador.es/English.html
MySpace: www.myspace.com/amadordiego
Diego Amador sings and plays almost every
flamenco instrument , from guitars to percussion, including mastery
of flamenco piano.
Bill
Leslie
Blue Ridge Reunion
Moses Owl
Bill
Leslie.com
A beautiful tune from Bill Leslie's new cd, Blue Ridge
Reunion. A composition iunspired by the the story of the "Trail
of Tears" as told to his father by a Cherokee friend named Moses
Owl.
Sarah
McQuaid
I won't go home 'til
morning
Uncloudy Day
When Two Lovers Meet
Johnny Lad
Sarah
McQuaid.com
MySpace: www.myspace.com/sarahmcquaid
Sarah McQuaid's new album focuses on the music of Southern Appalachian
music. She learned some of these antiquated Appalachian songs from
her mother like, "Uncloudy day" and the lonesome mountain
sound of: "In the Pines."
John
Ferrante
Wild Wind
Caterpillar
John
Ferrante
MySpace: www.myspace.com/ferranteguitar
Music from a new cd by California-based
guitarist John Ferrante
Chicha
Libre
¡Sonido Amazonico!
title track
Barbes
Records
A blast from the past with some of the psychedelic-meets-the-Amazon
music once popular in Peru.
Cordero
De donde eres
Quique
Bloodshot
Records
Artist website : www.corderomusic.com
MySpace: www.myspace.com/corderonyc
Indie-rock veteran Ani Cordero writes
and sing songs ranging from atmospheric Southewestern ballads to Spanish
rock.
Corciolli
Nosso Lar (The Astral City)
Campo Das Lembranças
Azul Music
MySpace: www.myspace.com/corciolli
Brazilian keyboardist and composer, Corciolli, is the founder of Azul
Music. We will hear a track from his new cd, The Astral City, based
on the spiritualist best-selling book "Nosso Lar."
Dyana
Dafova
Charisma - One World
in Song
Shin-Koto
Dyana-Dafova.com
A beautiful song by Dyana Dafova, sung in Japanese and English,
and accompanied by a Bulgarian choir.
Phileas
SPOKENWOR(L)D
Red Drowning Sun
PhileasWorld.com
Artist website : www.phileasworld.com
MySpace: www.myspace.com/phileasworld
Paris-based musician, Phileas, composes
"electronic music celebrating human speech and language."
World
Beat Pick of the Month
Omara
Portuondo
Gracias
Drume negrita (featuring
Richard
Bona)
World
Village / Harmonia Mundi
Artist
website : www.omaraportuondo.com
MySpace: www.myspace.com/omaraportuondo
Cuban songstress,
Omara Portuando made her first noteriety in America
as a vocalist with the Buena Vista Social Club.
On her new album, "Gracias" she celebrates
by recording the favorite songs defining her 60
year professional singing career.
Nicolas
Carter
Melodías
De Navidad
Joy to the World
NicolasCarter.com
Paraguayan harper, Nicolas Carter is equally
at home in Minnesota or Paraguay. He performs
a a Christmas concerts in Twin Cities churches,
accompanied by the Latin American instrumentation
of the Nube Ensemble. Nicolas is performing this
evening but will also be performing in Minneapolis
on Saturday 13th and 20th and in Richfield on
Sunday Dec 21st. Check the Christmas Concert calendar
at NicolasCarter.com
Bajofondo
Mardulces
Pa'bailar- Siempro Quiero Más
Decca
Records
Artist website: www.bajofondo.net
MySpace: www.myspace.com/bajofondomardulce
Bajofondo is comprised of multi-Grammy
Award recipient, Gustavo Santaolalla on guitar,
percussion, and vocals; Juan Campodónico
on programming, beats, samples and guitar; Luciano
Supervielle on piano, keyboards and scratch; Javier
Casalla on violin; Martín Ferrés
on bandoneon; Gabriel Casacuberta on upright bass
and electric bass; Adrián Sosa on drums;
and Verónica Loza as VJ and on vocals.
Natacha
Atlas and the Mazeeka Ensemble
Ana Hina
La Teetab Alayi
World
Village / Harmonia Mundi
MySpace: www.myspace.com/natachaatlasofficial
Anglo-Egyptian singer Natacha Atlas has
spent more than a decade fusing electronic beats
with Arabic and North African music. We will hear
music from her newest cd, "Ana Hina."
Al
Conti
Scheherazade
Seven Veils to Midnight
Shadowside
Music
Artist website : www.alconti.net
MySpace: www.myspace.com/alconti
Al Conti is from Buenos Aires and has been
surrounded by an eclectic blend of musicians and
performers all his life. His third release, tells
the story of Sheherazade, in music with guitar,
piano, dulcimer, hurdy gurdy, sitar, tribal drums
and exotic percussion.
Kamal
Whale Meditation
For Absent Friends
New
Earth Records
MySpace: www.myspace.com/newearthrecords
MySpace: www.myspace.com/musickamal
"To human ears it is the song of the
Humpback Whale singing that is the grandest, the
most complex, the most powerful song sung by any
non human." Dr. Roger Payne, Whale Biologist,
Ocean Alliance
Bombay
Dub Orchestra
3
Cities
Junoon
Six
Degrees Records
Artist website: www.bombayduborchestra.com
MySpace:
www.myspace.com/bombayduborchestra
Bombay Dub Orchestra consists of
composer/producers Garry Hughes and Andrew T.
Mackay. Their second release, "3 Cities"
is an East-West fusion project. The title refers
to the sonic crossroad where Mumbai, Chennai,
and London musically meet. "3 Cities"
features Indian Classical and electronica instrumentaions
with a cast of over 75 musicians.
Eccodek
Shiva boom
Lovers Trance
White
Swan Records
Artist website: www.eccodek.com
MySpace: www.myspace.com/eccodek
Rising from the underground
of Toronto’s multicultural music melting pot,
Eccodek’s music is a blend of downtempo grooves,
tribal electronica and world dub.
Burning
Spear
Jah Is Real
title track
www.BURNINGSPEAR.net
MySpace: www.myspace.com/burningspearmusic
MySpace: www.myspace.com/relixfamily
(featured artist)
Reggae legend Burning Spear thinks
of music as inspiration and life itself. His newest
inspiration is titled, "Jah Is Real"
John
Brown's Body
Amplify
So Aware
Artist website: www.johnbrownsbody.com
MySpace: www.myspace.com/johnbrownsbody
US new roots/progressive Reggae band,
John Brown’s Body, recently released their new
album, "Amplify."
Lucky
Dube
Retrospective
Different Colors
Rykodisc
Artist website :
www.luckydubemusic.com
MySpace: www.myspace.com/luckydube
South African reggae
singer Lucky Dube was one of the great reggae
artists recognized for singing about social issues.
He was one of the aparthied regiem's most outspoken
critics. Lucky Dube was recently killed when car
thiefs attacked him in Johanesburg. "Retrospect"
is a two disc set contains a CD with 13 numbers
and a DVD featuring five music videos and a 16
song live concert.
Chiwoniso
Rebel Woman
Nguva Ye Kufara
Cumbancha
Artist Website :
www.chiwoniso.com
Zimbabwean rich-voiced
singer, Chiwoniso is on tour this summer in support
of her new cd on Cumbancha, titled, "Rebel
Woman." Her songs feature the sound of the
mbira.
Terakaft
akh issudar
Ewor Imdane
World
Village / Harmonia Mundi
MySpace: www.myspace.com/terakaft
The title of Malian group Terakaft' second
album,"Akh Issudar" refers to an old Toureg proverb -"Aman
imam, akh issudar" meaning "Water is life, milk is survival."
Their Saharan music incorporates talking blues, call-and-response,
the buzzing drone of electric guitar, punctuated by wailing cries
and ululations.
Mamadou
Diabate
Douga Mansa (the King's Vulture)
Diyabarana
World
Village / Harmonia Mundi
Artist: www.mamadoukora.com
Music from the Malian kora virtuoso, Mamadou
Diabate. The 21 stringed West African harp-lute.
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