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Virtuoso From Afghanistan
(more) »rank: 65797by: Ustad Mohammad Omar
:Album Description:Afghan rebâb virtuoso Ustad Mohammad Omar, who was born sometime in the early 20th century, came to the United States in 1974 to Seattle’s University of Washington as an artist-in residence in the ethnomusicology department. On 18 November 1974, he gave his only U.S. concert, at the university’s Meany Hall. He was accompanied by 24-year-old Zakir Hussain, a budding Indian tabla player. Hussain went on to become a world-renowned tabla virtuoso. Ustad Mohammad Omar returned to Afghanistan after his year in Seattle and died in 1980. :When the whole world seems to be losing its collective mind, music remains an important--sometimes only--means ...
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Le Origini Di Adriano Celentano, Vol. 1-2: 1957-1972
(more) »rank: 61415by: Adriano Celentano
:Album Description:Afghan rebâb virtuoso Ustad Mohammad Omar, who was born sometime in the early 20th century, came to the United States in 1974 to Seattle’s University of Washington as an artist-in residence in the ethnomusicology department. On 18 November 1974, he gave his only U.S. concert, at the university’s Meany Hall. He was accompanied by 24-year-old Zakir Hussain, a budding Indian tabla player. Hussain went on to become a world-renowned tabla virtuoso. Ustad Mohammad Omar returned to Afghanistan after his year in Seattle and died in 1980. :When the whole world seems to be losing its collective mind, music remains an important--sometimes only--means ...
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Feelings
(more) »rank: 62619by: The Singers Unlimited
:Album Description:Afghan rebâb virtuoso Ustad Mohammad Omar, who was born sometime in the early 20th century, came to the United States in 1974 to Seattle’s University of Washington as an artist-in residence in the ethnomusicology department. On 18 November 1974, he gave his only U.S. concert, at the university’s Meany Hall. He was accompanied by 24-year-old Zakir Hussain, a budding Indian tabla player. Hussain went on to become a world-renowned tabla virtuoso. Ustad Mohammad Omar returned to Afghanistan after his year in Seattle and died in 1980. :When the whole world seems to be losing its collective mind, music remains an important--sometimes only--means ...
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Eva! Leyenda Peruana
(more) »rank: 91541by: Eva Ayllon
: :Susana Baca is usually the first Peruvian singer that comes to mind for many North Americans, but Baca's popularity in her homeland is actually surpassed by singer Eva Ayllon. Performing since the late 1970s, Ayllon fills 30,000 seat arenas and records platinum-selling records at home. The singer has toured the U.S., but never with the calling card of a domestic album. Now Ayllon has Eva! Leyenda Peruana to rectify the matter. Whereas Baca's voice is delicate and lilting with wisps of jazz, Ayllon is fiery and earthy as she sings in Spanish. Her music is mostly made up of traditional lando, festejo, and ...
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Yol Bolsin
(more) »rank: 80221by: Sevara Nazarkhan
: :Yol Bolsin is an intriguing new export traveling west on Asia's Silk Road. The debut of 25-year-old Uzbeki singer and doutar player Sevara Nazarkhan, the album combines the rich musical tradition of her Central Asian country and fuses it with the modern sounds of noted French-Algerian producer Hector Zazou. Like much of the best stuff to come out on Real World, the combination here is timely and timeless, with Zazou's modern sounds simply providing a tasteful backing to the plucked, lutelike lines of Nazarkhan and fellow doutar player Toir Kuziyev. A pop star in Tashkent, capital of Uzbekistan, Nazarkhan has a soaring, conservatory-trained ...
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Drops of Emptiness
(more) »rank: 135651by: Thich Nhat Hanh, Sister Chan Khong, Plum Village
: :Yol Bolsin is an intriguing new export traveling west on Asia's Silk Road. The debut of 25-year-old Uzbeki singer and doutar player Sevara Nazarkhan, the album combines the rich musical tradition of her Central Asian country and fuses it with the modern sounds of noted French-Algerian producer Hector Zazou. Like much of the best stuff to come out on Real World, the combination here is timely and timeless, with Zazou's modern sounds simply providing a tasteful backing to the plucked, lutelike lines of Nazarkhan and fellow doutar player Toir Kuziyev. A pop star in Tashkent, capital of Uzbekistan, Nazarkhan has a soaring, conservatory-trained ...
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Best Of Lucky Dube
(more) »rank: 62238from: Phantom Sound & Vision
:Album Description:2008 compilation from the South African Reggae star, one of the most outspoken performers in his country. His musical output incorporated everything from Lovers Rock to Soul and was always confident, melodic and, most times, featured politically-charged lyrics. His death in October of 2007 silenced one of South Africa's most popular voices but his message continues to live on. 17 tracks. Warner.
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Prototyp
(more) »rank: 94557by: Hurdy Gurdy
:Album Description:2008 compilation from the South African Reggae star, one of the most outspoken performers in his country. His musical output incorporated everything from Lovers Rock to Soul and was always confident, melodic and, most times, featured politically-charged lyrics. His death in October of 2007 silenced one of South Africa's most popular voices but his message continues to live on. 17 tracks. Warner.
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Who Is This America?
(more) »rank: 67242by: Antibalas
: :As a hard-hitting Afro-beat orchestra that embellishes vintage Fela-style grooves with touches of gritty funk and fiery salsa, Antibalas quickly won over a sizable local audience in New York City with its sweaty live shows and relentlessly danceable rhythms. But while the band's past two efforts sounded fresh amidst a landscape of retro-rock cool, the discs never measured up to the band's galvanizing live show: Liberation Afrobeat Vol. 1 was a piecemeal effort of live and studio material; Talkatif was woefully short. Now on Who Is This America, the band constructs a great-sounding 70-minute studio effort where the seven songs are skillfully woven ...
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Singulier 81-89
(more) »rank: 65092by: Jean Jacques Goldman
:Album Details:Double Disc Anthology of the Best from France's Premier Songwriter and Performer Whose Material Has Been Recorded by Many of his Contemporaries and Friends.
