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Buy Now	En Mana Kuoyo (more) »rank: 30974 by: Ayub Ogada :Album Details:One of the Finest UK-BASED African Musicians Explores the Traditional Culture of his People, the Luo: 'go Far, See the World, but Don't Forget Where You Come Fromà' :Prior to a lot of travel and his eventual settling in England, Ayub Ogada was a member of the Luo tribe from a wedge of northern Kenya pinched between Uganda and Tanzania. Ogada's music is based on repetitious patterns plucked on the nyatiti, a stringed instrument reminiscent of the lyre. On En Mana Kuoyo (meaning 'just sand'), he sings mellifluous, almost hypnotic, and yet ultimately lackadaisical melodies concerning home, his instrument, the weather, and ...	Buy Now	Chinese Traditional Erhu Music 2 (more) »rank: 71854 by: Lei Quiang :Album Description:Lei Qiang performs instrumental pieces on the erhu, a two- stringed violin-like instrument, with the Shaanxi Provincial Song and Dance Troupe. This collection of 19 traditional Chinese compositions captures the erhu's expressive mystical sound. Detailed liner notes in English. French and Chinese.
Buy Now	Street Signs (more) »rank: 58070 by: Ozomatli :Album Description:UK pressing of 2004 album, from L.A. based worldbeat act described as 'the best live band in the world', features 15 tracks including 2 exclusive bonus tracks, 'Como Me Duele' & 'Believe' (recorded live at Boulder Theatre). Concord. :You generally don't have to listen too hard to hear what's on the mind of Los Angeles music collective Ozomatli. The multi-faceted band is rarely subtle in its politics or its incorporation of countless Latin traditions as well as modern rock, jazz, pop and hip-hop. But on the band's third album, Street Signs, the addition of the Prague Symphony and the distinct influence of ...	Buy Now	Ancestry in Progress (more) »rank: 79059 by: Zap Mama :Album Description:The initial run of 'Ancestry in Progress' will feature a bonus disc with four exclusive tracks! :Longtime Zap Mama fans may take issue with the direction Marie Daulne has taken the band. After starting out as a women’s a capella group, Daulne started integrating instruments, rappers and programming on Seven, taking it even further on A Ma Zone. Now on Ancestry In Progress, the first ZM album in five years, it's Daulne with help from the Roots, Common, Erykah Badu, Taleb Kweli and others from the hip-hop and R&B community. Nonetheless, the band was always Daulne's, and she's in complete command here ...
Buy Now	Superhits, Vol. 2 (more) »rank: 43622 by: Palast Orchester :Album Description:The initial run of 'Ancestry in Progress' will feature a bonus disc with four exclusive tracks! :Longtime Zap Mama fans may take issue with the direction Marie Daulne has taken the band. After starting out as a women’s a capella group, Daulne started integrating instruments, rappers and programming on Seven, taking it even further on A Ma Zone. Now on Ancestry In Progress, the first ZM album in five years, it's Daulne with help from the Roots, Common, Erykah Badu, Taleb Kweli and others from the hip-hop and R&B community. Nonetheless, the band was always Daulne's, and she's in complete command here ...	Buy Now	Volume 3: Further in Time (more) »rank: 52577 by: Afro Celt Sound System : 's Best of 2001:While not as out-of-left-field revelatory and astonishing as their exalted debut, nor as darkly magnetic as their sophomore follow-up, Volume 3: Further in Time finds Afro Celt Sound System fleshed out, funky, and fiercely fresh. Now a band of 20-some-odd players, the Afro Celts push forward with unbounded energy and focus, organically driven beats, and a thoroughly joyous fusion of West African and Irish traditional music enhanced with dissonant Eastern influence, psychedelic trip-hop groove, and a monster flood of sonic waves. The resultant sound is somehow both cutting-edge futuristic and primitive in its visceral virility. Demba Barry steps up with ...
Buy Now	De l'Amour le Mieux (more) »rank: 68141 by: Natasha St. Pier :Album Description:Sophomore album for the French Canadian popstar. Columbia. 2002.	Buy Now	Beyond Skin (more) »rank: 77056 by: Nitin Sawhney :Album Description:1999 album that mixes traditional Asian music with jazz-soul & drum 'n' bass. NME called 'Beyond Skin', 'movingly anti-sentimental, political without being polemical, it's beyond stereotype & careening close to sublime'. Outcaste.
Buy Now	La Musique (more) »rank: 40690 by: Pine Leaf Boys :Album Description:1999 album that mixes traditional Asian music with jazz-soul & drum 'n' bass. NME called 'Beyond Skin', 'movingly anti-sentimental, political without being polemical, it's beyond stereotype & careening close to sublime'. Outcaste.	Buy Now	L' Album de Noel (more) »rank: 59317 by: Roch Voisine :Album Description:The French Canadian pop-star's 2000 Christmas album. Musicor.