The History of French Traditional Music (really!)
Une Anthologie des Musiques Traditionnelles (Frémeaux Associés)
This specially-priced set is a comprehensive anthology of the rich cultural heritage of French traditional music, featuring nearly 300 tracks, provides the listener a complete ethnomusicological panorama of the musical culture of France. The individual titles (recorded between 1900 and 2006) reveal the timeless and lasting nature of a collective memory reaching across whole generations, a memory which, in these times of globalization and uniformity, asserts the diversity of the heritage left to us by popular art-forms.
10 CDS - CD1 : Bretagne • CD2 : France de l’Ouest • CD3 : Auvergne et Limousin • CD4 : Centre France • CD5 : Sud-Ouest • CD6 : Méditerranée • CD7 : Alpes, Nord et Est • CD8 : Corse • CD9 : France d’Outre-Mer • CD10 : Français d’Amérique (more track info below)
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A Cuban pianist and a German Bigband hold a Ceremony
Think what you may of the Grammys, but the Academy got one thing (partially) right this past year:
Omar Sosa's 2009 recording
Across the Divide: A Tale of Rhythm & Ancestry was nominated for Best Contemporary World Music Album. While Béla Fleck took home the statue, the nomination introduced many people to the music of Omar Sosa. For these new listeners, this is good timing. The most recent release by Omar Sosa,
Ceremony, shows off his deep "world" credentials. Sosa, originally from Cuba, teamed up with Germany's
NDR Bigband and Brazilian arranger Jaques Morelenbaum, and the result is a powerful recording of celebration and joy.
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Mariem Hassan sings of 'the thorn' of the Saharaui
Mariem Hassan sings with entrancing intimacy and poetry, in a a clear message calling for all to fight injustice, discrimination and persecution. All of these new songs have been developed in a close complicity with the poet Lamin Allal and the guitarist, Lamgaifri Brahim. Although very young, he has masered all the subtleties of
haul music. And Mariem, with the lack of a appropriate Saharaui guitarist over the last years, was inspired to finally realize all the songs she has been carrying in her heart for so many years.
The CD also contains innovative new ideas: the title song “Shouka” is a cantata developed by using all scales and rhythms of the Haul. The essence of the traditional
haul is impressively kept by Vadiya Mint el Hanevi, percussionist, chorus and dance, Lamgaifri Brahim, guitar, Mariem Hassan herself , with the important cooperation of poet Lamin Allal.
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