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World Music Select | |||
| A focus on five musicians from different parts of the world. | ||||
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World Music Select | |||
| A focus on five musicians from different parts of the world. | ||||
| 'Lunatico' by Gotan Project NA |
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| CD - 55:40 mins | ||
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Moby dance, St Germain hip hop & Buenos Aires accordion, is this the birth of the Tango Cool? Hot in the World & Dance charts, an upbeat mood creator invaluable for urbanites, party-goers and loft dwellers everywhere. |
| 'Ama' by Jungchen Lhamo NA |
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| CD - 46:10 mins | ||
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Trekking 1,000 miles across the Himalayas to escape China's brutal imperialism in Tibet, and blessed by the Dali Lama, Jungchen's serene chanting on her mother's passing restates & empowers the Tibetan message. |
| 'The
Heart of the Moon' by Ali Farka Toure & Toumani Diabate NA |
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| CD - 54:41 mins | ||
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Dwelling in impossible musical territory between the smoky rhythms of Bob Marley and the celestial harpsichord phrasings of Bach, Mali's masters of guitar and kora play traditional and ancient melodies. |
| 'Honeysuckle' by Souad Massi NA |
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| CD - 52:23 mins | ||
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The immense suffering of the Algerian civil war (1992-2002, 150,000+ dead), in Souad's formative years, makes all the more poignant the N African singer-guitarists beauteous songs of love and longing. |
| 'Chez
Ravine' by Ry Cooder |
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| CD - 70:00 mins - £6.00 (P-159) | ||
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After pilgrimages to India, Africa and Cuba, the Master of World Music returns to his roots - a Mexican-American musicological portrait of the raw commercial 1950's LA of his youth. An integrated, mighty work of art. |