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Tracklist 1–CultureWhy Am I A Rastaman?4:13 2–Rita RibeiroCocada3:53 3–Hisham AbbasIntil Waheeda4:21 4–Los 50 De JoselitoMontañerisimo2:24 5–Miriam MakebaMasakhane4:45 6–Habib KoitéBatoumambe4:16 7–La CalacaRogaciano3:20 8–Big DaysSpirit Of Cropover4:37
Didgeridoo - the worlds oldest musical instrument. This is a textured musical creation of percussion with the ageless sound of didgeridoo, creating rhythms and tempos that will enrich and enlighten the listener. As any music goes it is a matter of personal taste. If you are a person who loves to listen to the oldest wind instrument of man, loves aboriginal musical sound, and enjoys the calming affects of rhythm, this is the music for you. You will also hear some of the tribal drumming along with the Didgeridoo. David Hudson is, hands down, the master of Didgeridoo music. Great for meditation, mystical practices, or just listening. It's hard to describe the feelings that his music invokes. You have to try it for yourself. Kick your shoes off, lie back, close your eyes and enjoy. official website: https://www.davidhudson.com.au
Soul Jazz Records' Nigeria Soul Fever is their first release to explore the vast wealth of Nigerian music recorded in the 1970's. The album comes with introductory sleeve-notes by Bill Brewster (author of Last Night A DJ Saved My Life). Packed full with Afro-Funk, Disco, and Boogie all from Nigeria, this set brings together a stunning collection of diverse West African sounds. Whilst a small handful of the artists featured (Joni Haastrup, Tee Mac, Christy Essien) have seen the light of day outside Africa, this is essentially a collection of killer tracks by an array of artists completely unknown outside of Nigeria. Artists include such as Don Bruce and The Angels, Akin Richards and The Executives, Angela Starr, and Jimmy Sherry and The Music Agents. It's no surprise that these records are extremely rare and expensive to buy individually so this album will save you going broke trying to find them. These recordings were made at a time when Nigeria's trade restrictions banned imported records. Whilst new musical trends (such as American soul, funk, disco etc.) entered and influenced the country, the local music scene remained just that - local. Consequently, these recordings remain practically unknown to anyone outside of the country.
In Faluas do Tejo, Madredeus presents a collection of songs about the city of Lisbon. The arrangements are mostly simple and folksy, showcasing Teresa Salguero's voice in its purest form.
"Lisboa, Rainha do Mar" opens the album with a light barcarole-sounding song that immediately conjures images of the Tagus river.
"Nevoas da Madrugada" carries a simple melody and light musical arrangement.
"O Cais Distante" is a moody, almost bluesy meditation.
"Na Estrada de Santiago" is a speak-sing number where Teresa sings a beautiful background melody that reinforces the power of her spoken parts.
"La de Fora" stands out as a happy, almost dance-able tune that has an alternating root-fifth bass line.
"O Canto do Saudade" finishes the album with a seaside, drink-in-hand feel that makes you want to start all the songs over again from the beginning. Notably, Teresa sings in a lower range for this song and you get to hear a different tone that is much more comfortable to the ear, especially if you don't like her very high parts.
Tracklist: –Dolores KeaneSolid Ground –AltanTommy Peoples / The Windmill / Fintan McManus' –ClannadCoinleach Ghlas An Fhómhair –Eileen IversOn Horseback –Kevin CrawfordSeason Of Mists –DéantaThe Lakes Of Pontchartrain –Patrick StreetThe White Petticoat / The Kerry Jig / Katy Is Waiting –Sliabh NotesTerry 'Cuz' Teahans Polka / Murphy's Polka / O'Sullivan's Polka –DervishMolly And Johnny –Joe Derrane With Carl HessionHumours Of Lissadell / Music In The Glen / Johnson's –Ciaran Tourish & Dermot McLaughlinThe Boys Of Malin / The Gravel Walks –Cran Dulman / Charlie O'Neill's Highland –Brendan LarrisseyMist On The Mountain / Three Little Drummers –Siobhan O'Donnell, Karen Tweed, Andy CuttingUntitled / Untitled / Hand Me Down The Tackle –Maighréad Ní DhomhnaillColm Cille Na Féile –Martin MurraySod Of Turf / Katie Goes To Granny –Martin HayesO'Connel's March/ Galway Bay Hornpipe / The Banshee's Wail / Over The Mangle Pit
Zulya Nazipovna Kamalova (Russian: Зуля Назиповна Камалова; born in Sarapul, Udmurt ASSR) is an award-winning Australian singer. She currently resides in Australia though tours both countries frequently. Zulya grew up in Tatarstan and began performing and writing music at age 9. She is of Volga Tatar background. In 1991, she moved to Australia, settling in Hobart, Tasmania. After extensive performing solo and with accompanists and releasing several limited-run cassettes and a full-length album Journey of Voice, she moved to Melbourne. She later formed the band Children of the Underground and signed to Melbourne-based independent record label Unstable Ape Records in 2004. Zulya is known for her interpretations Tatar and Russian music, often playing with a backing band Children of the Underground. Instrumentation typically includes accordion, double bass, percussion, guitar, brass and string arrangements and occasionally jaw harp.
On January 17, 2012, insurgents fighting for the National Movement for the Liberation of Azawad (NMLA) attacked the town of Menaka in the far east of Mali. The fighting soon spread all over the deserts of northern Mali, provoking the most serious crisis that the country had faced since independence in 1960. Tens of thousands of Touareg, Songhoi, Peulh and Arab people fled from the fighting to the relative safety of neighboring countries. The result was the worst refugee crisis in the southern Sahara in decades. Songs for Desert Refugees features a superb mix of desert music, including rare or unreleased tracks by some of the world's best-known Touareg groups, from Mali (Tinariwen, Tamikrest, Terakaft, Tartit), Niger (Bombino, Toumast, Etran Finatawa) and Algeria (Nabil Baly Othmani, Faris). The music on this compilation is the sound of what the Malian deserts can be; intense, joyful, beautiful, proud, poetic and peaceful. It is dedicated to all those who are working to make it so again. All involved in producing the album gave their services for free. Other artists include: Ibrahim Djo Experience, Amanar and Tadalat.
As with 2005's Rough Guide to the Sahara, the 12 tracks, most previously unreleased and all postdating that prophetic piece of genre-making, progress like a single expression toward the showy new jack guitars of Tadalat and Bombino and the overdue female voices of Toumast and Tamikrest. --MSNBC Expert Witness ...the album as it stands is masterful, and certainly one of the strongest world music albums of the year. It serves equally well as an introduction to this exciting strain of guitar-based African music and as a new set of tunes for listeners already familiar with the genre. --Popmatters 1. Amous Idraout Assouf d'Alwa (Tinariwen) 2. Warktifed (Tamikrest) 3. Blues du Désert Part 1 (Ibrahim Djo Experience) 4. Derhan Alkher (Faris & Terakaft) 5. Teswa Ténéré Desert Version (Nabil Baly Othmani) 6. Ténéré (Amanar) 7. Taghdart (Tadalat) 8. Gourma (Etran Finatawa) 9. Nak Essanagh (Terakaft) 10. Aïtma (Toumast) 11. Tigrawahi Tikma Live Version (Bombino) 12. Tihou Beyatene (Tartit)
The great thing about the compilers of the Rough Guide albums has always been the enormous breadth of styles that they attempt to incorporate into whatever compilation they're making. The music on this album ranges quite literally from India to Finland to England and all points in between. The album starts out with an example of modern flamenco from Pata Negra, then moves into Italian gypsy music and an ultra-high-speed number from the Romanian Fanfare Ciocarlia. It then moves immediately into a slow lament from Greek singer Eleni Vitali. From this odd juxtaposition, it progresses into Rajasthani music, and then back to Asia Minor with a group from Istanbul. A selection from Albania follows, followed itself by the new ambassadors of gypsy music, Taraf de Haidouks. Another Greek musician makes an appearance, followed by a pair of flamenco works, one from the guitar master Tomatito and one from El Indio Gitano and Gerardo Núñez. The album then makes another heavy-duty stylistic change as it jumps to Finnish gypsy love songs and English harmonica-based folk songs. The album then returns to the more prototypical gypsy sound, with a Hungarian group reminiscent of early klezmer in many respects. A strained shawm-based dance from Kosovo follows, providing a look into the practice of instrument adoption into a culture. The album finishes off with cimbalom master Kálman Bálogh and his arrangement of a traditional number based on styles from Spain, Hungary, and Romania (the Spanish influence is particularly noticeable). Tracklist: 1–Pata NegraYo Me Quedo En Sevilla 2–Acquaragia DromUssa Sà 3–Fanfare CiocărliaDoina si Balaseanca 4–Ελένη ΒιτάληThe Song Of the Gypsies (To Tragoudi Ton Gifton) 5–MusafirAnghuti 6–Gypsy Music Of ConstantinopleRast Tsiftetelli 7–KurbetiLove Birds (San Ta Dio Poulia) 8–Taraf de HaïdouksCind Eram La’ 48 9–Kostas Pavlidis*Jastar Amenge Dur 10–TomatitoMundi 11–El Indio Gitano & Gerardo NuñezEl Sereno De Mi Calle 12–Päivi ÄrlingOlen Lapsi Minä Syksyjen Illan 13–Jasper Smith, Levi SmithCock O’ The North / Garryowen / Flowers Of Edinburgh / Step It Away / The Girl I Left Behind Me / Step It Away 14–Jozsef LacatosFast Csárdas 15–Krusha MadhëKalandxój 16–Kálmán BaloghCigány Színek
Folk Roots Magazine celebrated its 20th Anniversary back in 1999 as the Bible, barometer and catalyst in Folk, Roots and World Music, Covering everything from American legends to English traditional heroes, from Pan-African greats to wonderful discoveries from all over the planet. This double CD set, 'Routes', was specially compiled and sequenced by Folk Roots editor and radio presenter Ian Anderson and features some of the most exciting and inspiring music from Africa, Europe, Asia and the World. Disc1 1Ndar (Senegal) - Youssou NDour 2Amarrao Con P (Cuba) - Cuarteto Patria 3Retany (Madagascar) - Tarika 4La Citta Del Sole (Italy) - Re Niliu 5Kufilaw/Take Care (Somalia) - Maryam Mursal 6Teremtes (Hungary) - Marta Sebestyen & Muzsikas 7Shima Jima Kaisha (Okinawa) - Nenes 8Heygana (Mali) - Ali Farka Toure 9Zolloko San Martinak (Basque Country) - Kepa, Zabaleta & Motriku 10Ya Izzana (Sudan) - Abdel Aziz El Mubarak 11Honsafotter/Gulerotter (Sweden) - Filarfolket 12Amadou Faal (Gambia/Senegal) - Dembo Konte/Kausu Kuyateh 13Guru Bandana (India) - Ali Akbar Khan/Asha Bhosle 14I, Voyager (UK) - Trans-Global Underground 15Lilizela Mlilizeli (South Africa) - Mahlathini & The Mahotella Queens ============================================================ Disc2 1Orgullecida (Cuba) - Buena Vista Social Club 2Maacina Tooro (Senegal) - Baaba Maal/Mansour Seck 3Stis Akres Apta Matia Soy (Greece) - Eleftheria Arvanitaki/Stavros Logarides 4Gamen (Sweden) - Garmarna 5Lela-Lela (Congo) - Kanda Bongo Man 6Ka Lei E (Hawaii/US) - Bob Brozman/Ledward Kaapana 7Haidara (Guinee) - Jali Musa Jawara 8Nikala (UK) - Najma 9Speed The Traktor (Szegerely) - 3 Mustaphas 3 10Oro Negro (Equatorial Guinea) - Hijas Del Sol 11Sorban Palid (Indonesia) - Euis Komariah/Yus Wiradiredja 12Urombo (Zimbabwe) - Thomas Mapfumo 13El Gustito (Mexico) - Los Camperos De Valles 14Zobi La Mouche (France) - Les Negresses Vertes 15Malako (Kenya) - Samba Mapangala/Orchestre Virunga
