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Bellowhead - Live At Shepherds Bush Empire (PAL DVD)
The carnival folk big band are captured live during their Burlesque tour at their sold-out London Shepherds Bush Empire show on September 26th 2007. This is the first ever official DVD from the much loved 11-piece group. In addition to the 98 minute concert, the DVD follows the group off stage and on the road with over an hour of bonus documentaries and interviews. PAL format DVD Only (plays in many new DVD machines in all regions, and on most computers)
Daniel Kahn and Painted Bird - Partisans & Parasites
A Detroit area native, Daniel Kahn has lived, played music, recorded, acted, directed plays and composed theatre music in New Orleans, Detroit, New York and Ann Arbor. In summer 2005 Daniel moved to Berlin, and, within a very short space of time, became an integral part of the city's folk and klezmer scene, playing in different groups and musical projects. As a corollary, he soon formed his own band, featuring a rotating roster of some of Berlin and New Yorks best young Klezmer and Balkan players. "The Painted Bird" concocts a mixture of Klezmer, radical Yiddish song, political cabaret and punk folk, kept together by Kahn's amazing abilities both as a songwriter and a performer; telling stories of outrageous incidents, poetically dark, tragically humorous and politically incorrect.
Maria del Mar Bonet - Raixa
For more than 40 years, Maria del Mar Bonet has been one of the major voices of Mediterranean music. Born in Palma de Majorca, she moved to Barcelona at the end of the 60's and formed part of what was called "La Nova Canco" (The New Song), an artistic movement that emerged during the final years of General Franco's dictatorship. Other famous members of the movement are Joan Manuel Serrat and Lluis Llach. This CD (the name of a garden in Majorca), was recorded in concert at Plaça Del Rei Barcelona and celebrates Bonet's 25th year of concerts in this venue.
New Orleans Jazz Orchestra - Book One
Founded in December 2002 by its current artistic director, Irvin Mayfield. They perform and present educational programs that draw upon the rich musical and cultural traditions of "the birthplace of jazz," where the group is based. Book One, the group's debut recording, is a showcase of Irvin Mayfield's original compositions for big band and features cameos by vocalist Johnaye Kendrick, R and B singer John Boutté and a singing/scatting turn by orchestra member Leon "Chocolate" Brown.
Maria Teresa - Era uma vez um Jardim
Maria Teresa is an outstanding Fado singer with multiple facets and influences to her talent. Born in France to Portuguese parents, she sings the popular tradition of the country of her origins as well as that of Brazil. Teresa's sensual voice brings out the purity and emotion of this powerful musical genre, which she learned from her mother. Featured artists include Tarcisio Gondim, Renaud Gillet and Toninho Do Carmo on guitars, Francis Varis on accordion and Salvador Douezy and Zé Luis Nascimento on percussion.
Varttina - 25
2008 marked Värttinä's 25th year as a band. The CD includes twenty-two tracks taken from all their eleven albums and the Archive Live DVD plus an unreleased song "Vipinäveet" recorded during the sessions for their album Miero. The "25" album also features lyrics, fotos from their entire career and deluxe, four-color, digipak design with 24 page booklet.
KTU - Quiver
This powerful, agressively fronds group returns with this 2009 powerhouse of sounds. Trey Gunn / Warr guitar; Kimmo Pohjonen / accordion, voice; Pat Mastelotto / rhythmic devices, beats and noises with Samuli Kosminen additional beats and noises, Kosminization
Di Naye Kapelye - Traktorist: Carpathian Klezmer
Di Naye Kapelye goes 50ies-socialism? After a lot of hunting the indefatigable fieldworker Bob Cohen researched a socialist build-up song in yiddish - the scrumptious "Traktorist", praising not only the tractor itself and the five-year plan performance, but also, if not to say mainly, the bigger chances of a tractor driver to hit on the girls. Again, Di Naye Kapelye reaffirms their outstanding role regarding Jewish music from the Carpathian Basin - authentic, rough and tender, danceable and soaked with a deep and true love for the heritage that's treasured by these passioned musicians ever since we can remember.
6 Australes - Eclipse: Nuevas canciones de Buenos Aires
The music of 6 Australes has its roots in the Río de la Plata region, but emerged in Berlin; composed and performed by Argentinean and German musicians, brought together by the Tango. Musically they go beyond Tango, opening up to various forms of Latin-American music as for instance Milonga, Zamba, Chacarera, Bossa Nova or Candombe. Out of this joining they create their own distinctive style, that merges melodic passion with rhythmic diversity and - together with the poetic power of Sergio Gobi's lyrics - enriches the tradition of Spanish-American song.
Tine Kindermann - Schamlos Schön: 13 alte Lieder aus Deutschland
Kindermann sings German folk songs accompanied by American rock musicians and arranged by Frank London. The result is astonishingly natural. There was something in these five centuries old songs that resisted obliteration. Mothers preserved them in secret; grandmothers and kindergarten teachers sang and sing to their children the songs of their own childhoods. Kindermann has blown the dust off these songs and made them alive, fresh, good as new. With her musicians, she has put them in an unusual contemporary intercultural context. She offers them to us, tenderly and unabashedly, songs of love and - in the words of Heine's "Loreley" - bygone ages. The band: Marc Ribot und Greg Cohen (Tom Waits Band) on guitar and double bass, Glenn Patscha (Ollabelle) on keyboards and Frank London (Klezmatics).
Recent additions also include:
Banda Olifante - Banda Olifante
Marisa Sannia - Rosa de papel
Leonard Cohen - Live in London
Le Vent Du Nord - Mesdames Et Messieurs!
various - Bellina Che Te Piace L'Allegria
various - Aria Stisa: Canti di contadine e trattoristi a Torchiarolo
KAL - Radio Romanista -
Rail Band - Volume 3: Dioba
Michel Macias - tout et son contraire
Orquestra Imperial - Carnaval So Ano Que Vem
various (African Pearls) - Guinee 70: The Discotheque Years
various (African Pearls) - Mali 70: Electric Mali
Guafa Trio - Herencia
Catriona McKay and Olov Johansson - Foogy
Orquestra Arab de Barcelona - Maktub
Stile Antico - Song of Songs (SACD)
Conspirare, Craig Hella Johnson - A Company of Voices - in Concert
Al Ayre Espanol, Banzo - A batallar estrella
Gianmaria Testa - Solo dal vivo
Philip Glass - In the Upper Room
Soname - Plateau
Various - Festival of San Miguel Tzinacapan
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