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Buy Now	The History of Fado (more) »rank: 140199 by: Amália Rodrigues :Album Description:Budget-priced two CD set of classic Fado (a sad Portuguese folksong). Disc one features the work (20 tracks) of the great Amalia Rodrigues, while disc two (20 tracks) features the work of Maria Emelia Ferreira, Madalena De Melo, Maria Teresa De Noronha, Celestina Luisa, Maria Do Carmo, Dina Teresa, Adelina Ferenandes, Ermalinda Vitoria, Maria Alice, Maria Silva, Ercilia Costa & Berta Cardoso. Standard double jewel case. 2001 release.	Buy Now	Afrikya, Vol. 1: A Musical Journey Through Africa (more) »rank: 47448 by: Marcus Samuelsson, Donna d'Cruz :Album Description:Ethiopian born, Swedish raised Marcus Samuelsson, famed chef of NYC's Aquavit restaurant and Discovery Channel's top rated show 'Inner Chef' has collaborated with Rasa Music's founder and renowned celebrity DJ Donna D'Cruz to bring together the sights, sounds, and tastes of Africa by creating this CD + book release. The passage of our humanity is woven into the fabric of Africa, including the root of modern music such as jazz, blues, reggae, hip-hop, gospel, house, and R&B. The CD is a hip, contemporary musical celebration and features artists from Tunisia, South Africa, Senegal, Mali, Ethiopia, Harlem, Sweden, and Cape Verde. The CD ...
Buy Now	L' Album de Noel (more) »rank: 88782 by: Roch Voisine :Album Description:Ethiopian born, Swedish raised Marcus Samuelsson, famed chef of NYC's Aquavit restaurant and Discovery Channel's top rated show 'Inner Chef' has collaborated with Rasa Music's founder and renowned celebrity DJ Donna D'Cruz to bring together the sights, sounds, and tastes of Africa by creating this CD + book release. The passage of our humanity is woven into the fabric of Africa, including the root of modern music such as jazz, blues, reggae, hip-hop, gospel, house, and R&B. The CD is a hip, contemporary musical celebration and features artists from Tunisia, South Africa, Senegal, Mali, Ethiopia, Harlem, Sweden, and Cape Verde. The CD ...	Buy Now	Strata (more) »rank: 32108 by: Robert Rich, Steve Roach : essential recording:Aural archaeologists Rich and Steve Roach delve deep into the strata of the primordial mind in this acclaimed 1990 collaboration. They forge a symbiotic artistic alliance where their signature sonic motifs are generally abandoned for the sake of a collective sound. Implementing their combined arsenal of synths, samplers, flutes, drums, and steel guitar, the duo creates a variety of moods and atmospheres--serene ambiences ('The Grotto of Time Lost'), ritualistic, rhythmic invocations ('Fearless'), intense dark ambient spaces ('Magma'), and surreal, bubbling soundscapes ('Persistence of Memory [For Dali]'). As with their other works, the composers utilize a balanced blend of organic and electronic ...
Buy Now	Illuminated Audio (more) »rank: 65948 by: Gigi : :As remix albums go, Illuminated Audio is better suited for fans of American producer/bassist Bill Laswell than of Ethiopian singer Ejigayehu Shibabaw--aka Gigi. As demonstrated throughout 2001’s self-titled release, Gigi’s airy, melismatic voice is an instrument capable of subtlety, power, and amazing grace. The earlier album mixed funky, complex Ethiopian pop with a dub soup of electronica, funk, and jazz. Like Choying Drolma and Steve Tibbetts’s Cho, Gigi is one of those rare modern cross-cultural recordings that update old sounds without being overtly reverential. It helped that real instruments were utilized rather than layers of samples. On Illuminated Audio, Laswell returns to the ...	Buy Now	Nightbird (more) »rank: 167118 by: Markus James :Album Description:On Nightbird, San Francisco singer/songwriter successfully finds the parallels between Malian pop, rock, and the blues, specifically, the sort of dusky, haunting blues that worked so well for John Lee Hooker and Lightnin' Hopkins. Recorded in Bamako, Mali, during the summer of 2000, this excellent CD isn't easy to categorize. Blues, rock, and Malian pop are all influences, and on Nightbird, slide guitar sounds perfectly natural alongside traditional African instruments like the calabash, the njarka, and the tama. The people joining James (whose earthy vocals have a Mick Jagger-ish quality) range from Malian musicians (including Afro-pop artist Mama Sissoko) to American singer ...
Buy Now	Welenga (more) »rank: 161783 by: Wes : :Wes has the unmistakable--and very Western--touch of its producer, Michael Sanchez (Deep Forest), but at its heart is the inherently African outlook of Cameroonian Wes Welenga. His songs, delivered in a soulful, often falsetto, voice, deal with childhood, the fragility of man, respect for elders, universal consciousness, religion, and matters of the heart. Combining a highly textured orchestration with traditional instruments, synthesizers, and rock guitars, Wes treads a path that weaves between Western pop charts and the Bantou villages of his upbringing, his songs never losing sight of his traditions. Musically, moments of exquisite beauty rub shoulders with beats straight from the dance ...	Buy Now	La Musica della Mafia: Il Canto di Malavita (more) »rank: 56830 by: Various Artists :Album Description:A controversial album of Mafia songs banned in Italy, La Musica Della Mafia, on the German-based Piasa label, features 18 songs of 'blood, honor and discretion'. The record is not glorifying or romanticizing anything. The songs are part of history and the words are based on codes that are 100 years old. Several songs are laments based on words written by Mafia members in prison and the CD includes two recordings by Fred Scotti, the only Italian singer bold enough ever to perform Mafia songs in public. 2002. :A classic case of truth outweirding fiction, the story of La Musica Della Mafia ...
Buy Now	Anthology (more) »rank: 63955 by: Haris Alexiou :Album Details:Double CD Compilation from Greek Pop Singer. 38 Songs, Including Duet with I Muvrini 'qu'est Ce Qui Nous Reste'.	Buy Now	Das Beste Von Freddy Quinn (more) »rank: 12499 by: Freddy Quinn :Album Details:Double CD Compilation from Greek Pop Singer. 38 Songs, Including Duet with I Muvrini 'qu'est Ce Qui Nous Reste'.