Ravi Shankar ‎– Bridges - The Best Of Ravi Shankar

Ravi Shankar KBE, born Robindro Shaunkor Chowdhury,(7 April 1920 – 11 December 2012), whose name is often preceded by the title Pandit (Master) and "Sitar maestro", was an Indian musician and a composer of Hindustani classical music. He was the best-known proponent of the sitar in the second half of the 20th century and influenced many other musicians throughout the world. Shankar was awarded India's highest civilian honour, the Bharat Ratna, in 1999.

Shankar was born to a Bengali Brahmin family in India, and spent his youth as a dancer touring India and Europe with the dance group of his brother Uday Shankar. He gave up dancing in 1938 to study sitar playing under court musician Allauddin Khan. After finishing his studies in 1944, Shankar worked as a composer, creating the music for the Apu Trilogy by Satyajit Ray, and was music director of All India Radio, New Delhi, from 1949 to 1956.

In 1956, Shankar began to tour Europe and the Americas playing Indian classical music and increased its popularity there in the 1960s through teaching, performance, and his association with violinist Yehudi Menuhin and Beatles guitarist George Harrison. His influence on the latter helped popularize the use of Indian instruments in pop music in the latter half of the 1960s. Shankar engaged Western music by writing compositions for sitar and orchestra, and toured the world in the 1970s and 1980s. From 1986 to 1992, he served as a nominated member of Rajya Sabha, the upper chamber of the Parliament of India. He continued to perform until the end of his life. 

Ravi Shankar ‎– Bridges - The Best Of Ravi Shankar
Released: 2001
Genre: Folk, World, & Country
Style: Hindustani

Tracklist:
1     Sandhya Raga     11:22
2     Chase     2:18
3     West Eats Meat     6:08
4     Ragas In Minor Scale     7:32
5     Tarana     5:37
6     Tana Mana     3:38
7     Sadhanipa     8:31
8     Friar Park     5:54
9     Reunion     4:15
10   Prashanti     13:37
11   Shanti-Mantra     6:49

Bridges

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80's World Music Classics - When the World Was Young....by various artists

80's World Music Classics
Label: Nascente ‎– NASCP001
Format: 2 × CD, Compilation
Released: 2011
Genre: Reggae, Latin, Pop, Folk, World, & Country
Style: Bollywood, African, Ragga, Salsa

Tracklist:

1-1     –Bulgarian State Radio & Television Female Vocal Choir     Kalimankou Denkou (The Evening Gathering)     5:08
1-2     –Najma Akhtar     Dil Laga Ya Tha     5:48
1-3     –Cheb Sahraoui & Chaba Fadela     N'Sel Fik     6:47
1-4     –Ofra Haza     Im Nin'Alu (Single Mix)     4:02
1-5     –Salif Keita     Sina     4:50
1-6     –Djeli Moussa Diawara     Foté Mogoban     6:33
1-7     –Baaba Maal, Mansour Seck     Lam Tooro     6:38
1-8     –Orchestra Baobab     Utru Horas     8:38
1-9     –Sivuca     Ain't No Sunshine     4:47
1-10     –Tania Maria     Come With Me     5:38
1-11     –Khaled     Hada Raykoum     8:14
1-12     –Rahat Fateh Ali Khan*     Ya Mohammed Madine Bula Lo (Edit)     6:09
1-13     –3 Mustaphas 3     Linda Linda     5:07

2-1     –Kassav'     Zouk La Sé Sél Médikaman Nou Ni     5:26
2-2     –Youssou N'Dour     Immigres     7:01
2-3     –Joe Arroyo Y La Verdad     Yamulemau     4:28
2-4     –Kanda Bongo Man     Belle Amie     7:32
2-5     –Rudolfo Y Su Tipica*     La Colegiala     3:43
2-6     –Eric Agyeman*     I Don't Care     8:22
2-7     –Mahlatini & The Mahotella Queens*     Thokozile     4:13
2-8     –Souzy Kasseya     Le Telephone Sonne     8:48
2-9     –Gilberto Gil     Todo Menina Baiana     3:46
2-10     –Bhundu Boys     Hupenyu Hwangu     5:08
2-11     –Tenor Saw     Ring The Alarm     3:10
2-12     –Samba Mapangala, Orchestre Virunga     Malako Disco     9:05
2-13     –Sipho Mabuse     Jive Soweto     4:42

 When the World Was Young 1

When the World Was Young 2

Klezmer...Yiddish Swing Music...various artists compilation

Klezmer is a musical tradition of the Ashkenazi Jews of Eastern Europe. Played by professional musicians called klezmorim in ensembles known as kapelye, the genre originally consisted largely of dance tunes and instrumental display pieces for weddings and other celebrations. In the United States the genre evolved considerably as Yiddish-speaking Jewish immigrants from Eastern Europe, who arrived between 1880 and 1924, came into contact with American jazz. During the initial years after the klezmer revival of the 1970's, the American sub-variety was what most people knew as klezmer, although in the 21st century musicians began paying more attention to the original pre-jazz traditions as revivalists including Josh Horowitz, Yale Strom and Bob Cohen have spent years doing field research in Eastern/Central Europe. Additionally, later immigrants from the Soviet Union, such as German Goldenshtayn, took their surviving repertoires to the United States and Israel in the 1980's.

Compared with most other European folk-music styles, little is known about the history of klezmer music, and much of what is said about it remains uncertain. There is, however, a heavy influence of Romani music, since many Jews and Roma lived side by side in Europe. 

1     –Bagelman Sisters With Abe Ellstein Orchestra     A Vaibele A Tsnien    
2     –Dave Tarras, Beresh Katz, Abe Schwartz     Ch'sidishe Nigunim    
3     –Naftuie Brandwein     Das Teureste In Bukowina    
4     –Alexander Olshanetsky, Aaron Lebedeff  What Can You Mach ? S'is      Amarica    
5     –Brandwein     Der Terk In America    
6     –Jacob Hohhman, Kandel's Orchestra     Doina And Hora    
7     –Naftule Brandwein     Freilicher Yontov    
8     –Naftule Brandwein     Freit Sich, Yiddelach    
9     –Steiner     Haneros Haluli    
10     –Naftule Brandwein     Heiser Bulgar    
11     –Seymour Rechtzeit, Abe Ellstein Orchestra     Hopkele    
12     –Naftule Brandwein     Kleine Princessin    
13     –Ziganoff     Koilen    
14     –Naftule Brandwein     Naftule Spielt Far Dem Rebin    
15     –Russkyl Orchestra Moskva     Pas D'espan    
16     –Abe Schwartz Orchestra     Sher    
17     –Abe Schwartz Orchestra     Unzer Toirele    
18     –Yiddish Swing Orchestra     Bridegroom Special    
19     –Joseph Cherniasvksy Yiddish American Jazz Band     Yiddisher March    
20     –Abe Ellstein Orchestra     Second Avenue Square Dance

                                                                               Klezmer 

Putumayo Summer Party Sampler....by various artists

Tracklist
1 –Culture Why Am I A Rastaman? 4:13
2 –Rita Ribeiro Cocada 3:53
3 –Hisham Abbas Intil Waheeda 4:21
4 –Los 50 De Joselito Montañerisimo 2:24
5 –Miriam Makeba Masakhane 4:45
6 –Habib Koité Batoumambe 4:16
7 –La Calaca Rogaciano 3:20
8 –Big Days Spirit Of Cropover 4:37

Summer Party

https://youtu.be/YSzXRgvqkps

Didgeralia by David Hudson....rhythms with percussion and didgeridoo

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

Didgeralia

Nigeria Soul Fever..Afro Funk, Disco and Boogie...West African Disco Mayhem!

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.

Nigeria Soul Fever 1 

Nigeria Soul Fever 2 

Madredeus...Faluas Do Tejo: Lisboa 2005...Portugese folk in purest form

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.

Enjoy the virtual trip to Lisbon.

Faluas Do Tejo

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The Rough Guide to Irish Music...various artists compilation

Tracklist:
–Dolores Keane Solid Ground
–Altan Tommy Peoples / The Windmill / Fintan McManus'
–Clannad Coinleach Ghlas An Fhómhair
–Eileen Ivers On Horseback
–Kevin Crawford Season Of Mists
–Déanta The Lakes Of Pontchartrain
–Patrick Street The White Petticoat / The Kerry Jig / Katy Is Waiting
–Sliabh Notes Terry 'Cuz' Teahans Polka / Murphy's Polka / O'Sullivan's Polka
–Dervish Molly And Johnny
–Joe Derrane With Carl Hession Humours Of Lissadell / Music In The Glen / Johnson's
–Ciaran Tourish & Dermot McLaughlin The Boys Of Malin / The Gravel Walks
–Cran Dulman / Charlie O'Neill's Highland
–Brendan Larrissey Mist On The Mountain / Three Little Drummers
–Siobhan O'Donnell, Karen Tweed, Andy Cutting Untitled / Untitled / Hand Me Down The Tackle
–Maighréad Ní Dhomhnaill Colm Cille Na Féile
–Martin Murray Sod Of Turf / Katie Goes To Granny
–Martin Hayes O'Connel's March/ Galway Bay Hornpipe / The Banshee's Wail / Over The Mangle Pit

Irish Music

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Zulya Kamalova...Russian-Australian artist...first 2 albums...Journey of Voice and Aloukie

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.

official website: https://zulya.com

Journey of Voice 

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Aloukie

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Lullaby (Tatarstan / Russia)

https://youtu.be/7jD_bQKZgd4

Songs for Desert Refugees...a compilation in aid of the refugees from Northern Mali

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.

Songs for Desert Refugees

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 Rough Guide to the Music of the Gypsies....various artists

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 Negra Yo Me Quedo En Sevilla
2 –Acquaragia Drom Ussa Sà
3 –Fanfare Ciocărlia Doina si Balaseanca
4 –Ελένη Βιτάλη The Song Of the Gypsies (To Tragoudi Ton Gifton)
5 –Musafir Anghuti
6 –Gypsy Music Of Constantinople Rast Tsiftetelli
7 –Kurbeti Love Birds (San Ta Dio Poulia)
8 –Taraf de Haïdouks Cind Eram La’ 48
9 –Kostas Pavlidis* Jastar Amenge Dur
10 –Tomatito Mundi
11 –El Indio Gitano & Gerardo Nuñez El Sereno De Mi Calle
12 –Päivi Ärling Olen Lapsi Minä Syksyjen Illan
13 –Jasper Smith, Levi Smith Cock O’ The North / Garryowen / Flowers Of Edinburgh / Step It Away / The Girl I Left Behind Me / Step It Away
14 –Jozsef Lacatos Fast Csárdas
15 –Krusha Madhë Kalandxój
16 –Kálmán Balogh Cigány Színek

Music of the Gypsies

Various Artists : Routes: Africa, Europe, Asia and the World

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.

Disc 1
1 Ndar (Senegal) - Youssou NDour
2 Amarrao Con P (Cuba) - Cuarteto Patria
3 Retany (Madagascar) - Tarika
4 La Citta Del Sole (Italy) - Re Niliu
5 Kufilaw/Take Care (Somalia) - Maryam Mursal
6 Teremtes (Hungary) - Marta Sebestyen & Muzsikas
7 Shima Jima Kaisha (Okinawa) - Nenes
8 Heygana (Mali) - Ali Farka Toure
9 Zolloko San Martinak (Basque Country) - Kepa, Zabaleta & Motriku
10 Ya Izzana (Sudan) - Abdel Aziz El Mubarak
11 Honsafotter/Gulerotter (Sweden) - Filarfolket
12 Amadou Faal (Gambia/Senegal) - Dembo Konte/Kausu Kuyateh
13 Guru Bandana (India) - Ali Akbar Khan/Asha Bhosle
14 I, Voyager (UK) - Trans-Global Underground
15 Lilizela Mlilizeli (South Africa) - Mahlathini & The Mahotella Queens
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Disc 2
1 Orgullecida (Cuba) - Buena Vista Social Club
2 Maacina Tooro (Senegal) - Baaba Maal/Mansour Seck
3 Stis Akres Apta Matia Soy (Greece) - Eleftheria Arvanitaki/Stavros Logarides
4 Gamen (Sweden) - Garmarna
5 Lela-Lela (Congo) - Kanda Bongo Man
6 Ka Lei E (Hawaii/US) - Bob Brozman/Ledward Kaapana
7 Haidara (Guinee) - Jali Musa Jawara
8 Nikala (UK) - Najma
9 Speed The Traktor (Szegerely) - 3 Mustaphas 3
10 Oro Negro (Equatorial Guinea) - Hijas Del Sol
11 Sorban Palid (Indonesia) - Euis Komariah/Yus Wiradiredja
12 Urombo (Zimbabwe) - Thomas Mapfumo
13 El Gustito (Mexico) - Los Camperos De Valles
14 Zobi La Mouche (France) - Les Negresses Vertes
15 Malako (Kenya) - Samba Mapangala/Orchestre Virunga