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Buy Now	Adventures in Afropea, Vol. 1 (more) »rank: 79739 by: Zap Mama :Album Description: Unearthly harmonies born of Pygmy song, Moroccan chants and exhuberant scat made Zap Mama global a cappella queens. Now for the first time they meet the roots throb of bass and drums, shot through with equal parts highlife and hip-hop. Zap Mama is soul music for the diaspora. 'If your ears are open,' mama Zap Marie Daulne says, 'you'll understand.' 'Marie Daulne and Zap Mama make music that sounds like a one-woman multicultural movement, melding African percussion, American soul and European urbanity.' Time	Buy Now	La Scala: Concert 03 03 03 (more) »rank: 145206 by: Ludovico Einaudi :Album Description:Ludovico Einaudi is fast becoming one of the most popularly acclaimed contemporary classical/composer/performers of our time. This 2CD set was recorded live at La Scala, Milan and features most of his most popular pieces amongst the 21 tracks. It reflects his ability to electrify an audience during the concert. Einaudi is clearly a man who is passionately in touch with his music. Ricordi. 2004.
Buy Now	Desert Wind (more) »rank: 116150 by: Ofra Haza : :She's been dubbed 'the Madonna of the Desert,' and this record is the reason why. Haza came out of her '80s folk-fan circuit and returned to her beloved Israeli disco-pop with this highly produced set of songs that were clearly designed for the mainstream. She's got an incredible set of pipes, and they are readily in evidence here. Haza is a charmer when she sings, soaring above even the most trivial studio dubs and musical overloads that exemplify the backing tracks. There are more traditional recordings available from Haza, both predating and following this one, that accent her Israeli and Yemenite heritage. Desert ...	Buy Now	Halim (more) »rank: 134306 by: Natacha Atlas : :She's been dubbed 'the Madonna of the Desert,' and this record is the reason why. Haza came out of her '80s folk-fan circuit and returned to her beloved Israeli disco-pop with this highly produced set of songs that were clearly designed for the mainstream. She's got an incredible set of pipes, and they are readily in evidence here. Haza is a charmer when she sings, soaring above even the most trivial studio dubs and musical overloads that exemplify the backing tracks. There are more traditional recordings available from Haza, both predating and following this one, that accent her Israeli and Yemenite heritage. Desert ...
Buy Now	Something Dangerous (more) »rank: 63173 by: Natacha Atlas :Album Description:This international star combines Middle Eastern music with dance, rap, drum n' bass, R&B, Hindi Pop, film music and French Chanson. Collaborators include Jah Wobble, English composer Joselyn Pook (creator of the Eyes Wide Shut score), Princess Julianna, Transglobal Underground's Tuup, Sinead O'Connor and more. Beggars Banquet. 2003. :It's quite extraordinary how Natacha Atlas can seamlessly combine so many languages and genres. On Something Dangerous, while singing in Arabic, Hindi, English and French, she draws her musical backing from drum & bass, Parisian vaudeville, R&B, ambient dance, pop, rap and film music, and never once do her sonic movements feel remotely gratuitous. ...	Buy Now	One Life (more) »rank: 32044 by: Johnny Clegg :Album Details:Johnny Clegg is Back with his First Album Since 2002's ‘new World Survivor’. ‘one Life’ is Arguably his Best Work Since 1993's ‘heat, Dust and Dreams’ and Has all the Instrumental and Vocal Hallmarks that Made the Clegg and Savuka Albums So Great in the Late 80's and Early 90's. Lyrically, Clegg Touches on his Usual Subjects Such as Spirituality, Love and Politics, Singing in English, Zulu and Even French.
Buy Now	Tchamantché (more) »rank: 50199 by: Rokia Traoré :Album Description:New album. Includes one cover of (The man I love (Billie Holiday)'.	Buy Now	The Best of Nek: l'Anno Zero (more) »rank: 41157 by: Nek :Album Details:Collection of the Greatest Hits from the Italian Singer, Songwriter and Bass Player. 16 Tracks Including Previously Unreleased 'Almeno Stavolta' and 'l'anno Zero'.
Buy Now	Diaspora (more) »rank: 141235 by: Natacha Atlas : :The Trans-Global Underground diva wails in Arabic as her south London mates bring on the pagan beats. Atlas may eventually shrug at her North American sales, but this is more adventurous than Page & Plant's forays into middle eastern exotica and twice as authentic. --Jeff Bateman	Buy Now	Douga Mansa (more) »rank: 62431 by: Mamadou Diabate : :With the release of of Douga Mansa(The King's Vulture), his third album for World Village, Mamadou Diabate further consolidates his already awe-inspiring reputation as a kora virtuoso and tradition-based musical maverick. His instrument, a 21-stringed West African harp-lute equipped with a gourd resonator, calls for an almost unimaginable degree of physical and creative dexterity. But in Diabate's hands, the kora proves capable of infiinte variation, encompassing delicately artuculated structures, swirlin eddies of glissandi, pounding, vertical rhythms and roaring cataracts of arpeggio. On Touto Diarra, the opening track, an astounding range of simultaneous yet syncopated melodies and rhythms join and separate. It weems ...