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Øystein Sevåg
Global House
Song From the Planet
MySpace:
www.myspace.com/oysteinsevag
Windham
Hill Records
Bridget
McMahon
Celtic Woman
The Curragh of Kildare
Paradise
Music
MySpace: www.myspace.com/361900332
Bridget McMahon lives in County Mayo, on
the west coast of Ireland. She is part of a duo performing trad folk,
rock, and Americana.
Smithfield
Fair
Scotland, Fair Scotland
The Mist Covered Mountains of Home (trad.)
www.smithfieldfair.com
MySpace: Smithfieldfair
Smithfield Fair are traditional Scottish/Celtic band, based in Baton
Rouge, LA. Their new album is a collection of Traditional songs titled,
"Scotland, Fair Scotland."
Márta
Sebestyén
I Can See The Gates of Heaven
(Hungarian
religious and secular songs)
Driving Away Sorrow
World Village
MySpace: www.myspace.com/sebestyenmarta
Music from Hungarian folk singer, Marta Sebstyen sings songs that
preserve archaic European traditions.
Music
from Asphalt-Tango.de
ErsatzMusika
Songs Unrecantible
Train-Slow Adagio
Incantation vs. Causation
Asphalt-Tango.de
MySpace: www.myspace.com/ersatzmusika
These six Berlin-based musicians, of ErsatzMusika spent their formative
years in the USSR and emigrated to Berlin in the early 90's. They
are lead by singer/songwriter, Irina Doubrovskja who describes her
music, on MySpace, as "post-soviet urban folk from Berlin."
Lyrics
to: Songs Unrecantible (8.3 MB)
ErsatzMusika
Voice Letter
The Mushroom Hunter
Asphalt-Tango.de
MySpace: www.myspace.com/ersatzmusika
These six Berlin-based musicians, of ErsatzMusika spent their formative
years in the USSR and emigrated to Berlin in the early 90's. They
are lead by singer/songwriter, Irina Doubrovskja who describes her
music, on MySpace, as "post-soviet urban folk from Berlin."
Mahala
Raï Banda
Ghetto Blasters
Balada
Asphalt-Tango.de
MySpace: www.myspace.com/mahalaraibanda
Some great new gypsy brass-band music from Romania and epicenter of
Balkan soul.
Balkan
Beat Box
Blue Eyed Black Boy
Smatron
www.NatGeoMusic.net
MySpace: www.myspace.com/zebthespyfromcairo
Music from a new recording of globalized urban mashups, from Balkan
Beat Box, recorded in Belgrade and Tel Aviv. This time BBB are on
the NatGeo Label.
Esthema
the hereness and nowness of
things
A Place to Rest
MySpace:
www.myspace.com/esthemamusic
Esthema is a Boston-based
world fusion ensemble. We will be hearing the Greek
flavored track, "A Place to Rest."
Ilhan
Ersahin
Istanbul Sessions with Erik Truffaz
Bosphorus
Nublu
MySpace: www.myspace.com/istanbulsessions
NYC East Village-based saxophonist and composer, Ilhan Ersahin has
travelled to Istanbul many times for jam-sessions and to absorb the
blossoming music scene. This is the result of those sessions.
Very
Be Careful
Escape Room
La Sorpresa
Barbès
Records
MySpace: www.myspace.com/verybecareful
VBC is a Caribbean sould band based in LA. They specialize in a Colombian
coastal beat style called the vallanato.
Josh
Rouse
El Turista
Sweet Elaine
Yep Roc
MySpace: www.myspace.com/joshrouse
Artist: www.joshrouse.com
Josh Rouse is based in Valencia Spain, El Turista is a globe-trotting
musical journey with Spain the point of origin, and that touches down
in Africa, Cuba, Brazil and Nashville where the bulk of the tracks
were recorded.
Kamal
Zen Mama
Mahakala Chant
New Earth Records
MySpace: www.myspace.com/kamal
David
Starfire
Bollyhood Bass
Shakti
Six
Degrees Records
MySpace:
www.myspace.com/davidstarfire
A new cd from Los Angeles-based world musician,
David Starfire titled, Bollyhood.
Geoffrey
"Gurrumul" Yunupingu
Gurrumul
Baywara
Skinnyfish Music
MySpace: www.myspace.com/gurrumul
Next up (my World Beat Pick of the Month) Gurrumul, an Australian
Aboriginal man who was born blind and learned to play a right-handed
guitar upside-down with his left hand. He still plays all his songs
in that fashion. We will be hearing Gurrumul singing a song addressed
to the Aboriginal creator, Baywara.
Gurrumul History (I Was Born Blind):
I was born blind, and I don't know why
God knows why, because he love me so
as I grew up, my spirit knew
then I learnt to read the world of destruction
united we stand, divided we fall
together we'll stand, in solidarity
Sara Thomsen
Fertile Ground
Is It For Freedom (1999)
Sara Thomsen
Everything Changes
I May Never Understand (2008)
Sara
Thomsen
MySpace:
www.myspace.com/sarathomsen
We will be hearing a couple of tracks from
Sara Thomsen. A singer/song writer from the Duluth Area. I first heard
her, back in 2002, on a rainy evening in Duluth, when I ducked into
a coffee house/bakery on Canal Park. Sara's songs made a lasting impression.
I stayed till the music ended. It was just recently that I heard her
song "Is It For Freedom" on a Democracy Now video that I
contacted her to play her music on The World Beat.
Fool's
Gold
Fool's Gold
The World Is all There Is
IAM
SoundRecords
MySpace: www.myspace.com/foolsgold
Fool's Gold is a collective of a dozen musicians
out of LA, performing African-influenced music, enthusiastically mixing
the sounds of from Highlife to the Toureg trance music, with a spicy
blend of other influences from around the world.
Gaudi
No Prisoners
Brainwashed Again
Six
Degrees Records
MySpace:
www.myspace.com/gaudimusic
Next-up music from a brand new cd from Six Degrees Records that just
arrived in today's mail. Gaudi is a London-based producer famous for
rocking dance-floors the world over. His music synthesizes elements
of dub, electronica, and world music into extended down-tempo mixes.
Taj
Weekes & Adowa
Deidem
Propaganda War
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Taj Weekes
& Adowa
Doubt
Scream out Mellow
Artist Charity Foundation website:
They
Often Cry Outreach
Artist website:
tajandadowa.com
MySpace: www.myspace.com/tajweekesadowa
Media: www.sjmmedia.com/tajweekesepk
Music from the Carribean Island of
St. Lucia by roots reggae musicians, Taj Weekes and Adowa.
Singer/songwriter Taj Weekes speaks to the life, love, poverty, faith
and the people's spirit of his island country.
David
Kirton
Stranger
Stand Up
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. We will be hearing "Stand Up."
Razia
Zebu Nation
Babonao
Cumbancha
Discovery
MySpace: www.myspace.com/raziasaid
Artist website: RaziaSaid.com
Singer and songwriter Razia Said is a native of Madagascar where she
returns after years of living s nomadic life from Africa to Europe
and the US. On Zebu Natio she reaches back to her roots in Madagascar
to find her artistic voice.
Lionel
Loueke
Mwaliko
Vi Ma Yon (with Angelique
Kidjo)
Blue Note
MySpace:
www.myspace.com/lionelloueke
Artist:
www.lionelloueke.com
Lionell Loueke on African
jazz guitar and vocals is acompanied Angilique
Kidjo on a couple of tracks as well as a couple
of tracks with Cameroonean musician, Richard Bona
on bass and vocals.
Angelique
Kidjo
Õÿö
Move On Up (featuring
Bono & John Legend)
Artist website:
kidjo.com
MySpace:
www.myspace.com/angeliquekidjo
A new release from
Angelique Kidjo. We will hear a song called "Move
On Up" featuring Bono & John Legend.
Ali Farka
Touré & Toumani Diabaté
Ali and Toumani
Ruby
World
Circuit/ Nonesuch
MySpace:
www.myspace.com/toumanidiabate
MySpace:
www.myspace.com/alifarkatoureofficial
A posthumous
recording of Ali Farka Touré on guitar
and vocals. His mani collaborator is Toumani Diabaté
on Kora but he is also accompanied by his son,
Vieux Farka Touré, on congas; and Cuban
great, Orlando Cachaito Lopez on bass.
Sierra
Leone's Refugee All Stars
Rise & Shine
Living Stone
Cumbancha
MySpace: www.myspace.com/therefugeeallstars
Artist website: SierraLeonesRefugeeAllStars.com
The Sierra Leone's Refugee All Stars formed their
group in a West African refugee camp. Their first
album was titled "Living Like a Refugee."
As their motto they write: "We always to
intend to write songs about peace and love because
we always remember our past. We came from a war-torn
country. That's why we never cease to remind people
in our music to always remain in peace. We will
be hearing "Living Stone."
World
Beat Pick of the Month
Bassekou
Kouyate & Ngoni ba
I Speak Fula
Torin torin (feat: Kasse
Mady Diabate & Toumano Diabate)
SubPop
Records
MySpace:
www.myspace.com/bassekoukouyate
Basse Kouyate plays
the ngoni, a string instrument originating in
West Africa; it's body is made of wood or calabash
covered with goatskin over it like a drum. This
instrument is an ancestor of the banjo. Basse
Kouyate and Ngoni ba are on US tour and will play
a concert on April 10th, in Minneapolis, at The
Cedar.
Mark's
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