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	April 2024 Edition

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	Artist Baaba Maal Album Review On the Road Label: Live, Import Genre: Folk Origin: Senegal Format: Music CD, Import Wiki article
2009 collection of live tracks from the Senegalese singer and guitarist. The recordings on this release span a decade of live magical performances. The warm meditative melodies supplied by the kora playing of the late Kaouding Cissoko are enhanced by Maal's rich vocals, resulting in a hypnotic set of acoustic masterpieces. The songs featured are some of his best loved hits from the last decade, with a couple of hidden treasures for the aficionados. There are samples for you to listen when you click the link below.
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	Artist Bassekou Kouyate with Ngoni ba Album Review Segu Blue Label: Out Here Records Genre: Folk Origin: Mali Format: Music CD, Import Wiki article
This is a gem. Bassekou Kouyaté is Mali's leading player of the ngoni, a simple desert lute that looks like a stocky cricket bat. It's West Africa's oldest string instrument and the ancestor of the banjo. One of the most gorgeous tracks is an instrumental with Toumani Diabate on kora. Laid-back music of the highest order. There are samples for you to listen when you click the link below
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	Artist Enya Album Review And Winter Came Label: Reprise Records Genre: Celtic Folk Origin: Ireland Format: Music CD Wiki article
And Winter Came is an enchanting evocation of the changing landscape of winter as well as the festive cheer of the holidays. Enya brings her beguiling and ethereal music to bear on the darkest and yet most hopeful season with And Winter Came Click the link below to listen to samples.
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	Artist Enya Album Review Paint the Sky with Stars: The Best of Enya Label: Reprise / Wea Genre: Celtic Folk Origin: Ireland Format: Music CD Wiki article
Paint the Sky with Stars, an assortment of Enya's best work. The most melodic and atmospheric examples of Enya's lovely Celtic-flavored songwriting shine on this disc. Overall, an outstanding collection from an artist who gives New Age a good name.
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	Artist Enya Album Review A Day Without Rain Label: Reprise / Wea Genre: Celtic Folk Origin: Ireland Format: Music CD Wiki article
A Day Without Rain, Enya's fourth release since Watermark, establishes new artistic heights for the gifted Irish vocalist and keyboardist. -- a radiant, beatific collection of works that command attention with their cathedral-like resonance as they soothe your spirit with some of Enya's loveliest, most graceful voicings ever. A wonderful recording. There are samples for you to hear when you click the link below.
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	Artist Mariza Album Review Terra Label: FOUR QUARTERS ENT Genre: Folk Origin: Portugal Format: Music CD Wki article
2008 release from this critically-acclaimed vocalist. With musicians from England, Spain, Cuba and Brazil she has discovered a genuinely new sound that has it's roots in Fado but which is now so much more open and outward looking. Click the link below to hear samples
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	Artist Mariza Album Review Fado Em Mim Label: Times Square Records Genre: Folk Origin: Portugal Format: Music CD Wki article
This twentysomething, Mozambique-born beauty of Portuguese, Spanish, German, African, and Indian descent rapidly rose from the Mouraria district of Lisbon to become fado's newest and brightest star. The 12 selections on this recording are arranged in chamber-style ensembles consisting of bass, piano, classical guitar, and its 12-stringed, Portuguese cousin, the Portuguese viola. Click the link below to hear samples
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	Artist Sevara Nazarkhan Album Review Yol Bolsin Label: Real World Genre: Contemporary Folk Origin: Uzbekistan Format: Music CD Wiki article
Yol Bolsin is an intriguing new export traveling west on Asia's Silk Road. The debut of 25-year-old Uzbeki singer and doutar player Sevara Nazarkhan, the album combines the rich musical tradition of her Central Asian country and fuses it with the modern sounds of noted French-Algerian producer Hector Zazou. Like much of the best stuff to come out on Real World, the combination here is timely and timeless, with Zazou's modern sounds simply providing a tasteful backing to the plucked, lutelike lines of Nazarkhan and fellow doutar player Toir Kuziyev. A pop star in Tashkent, capital of Uzbekistan, Nazarkhan has a soaring, conservatory-trained voice that conveys myriad emotions with range and an intonation enriched with deft shading.
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	Artist Sevara Nazarkhan Album Review Sen Label: Emd Int'l Genre: Contemporary Folk Origin: Uzbekistan Format: Music CD, Import Wiki article
Sen is a looping, shimmering, beats-laden gem that will rightly be acclaimed as one of the great world music releases of the year. This Uzbek singer is poised to become a global diva; electronica blended with Silk Route folk and dreamy vocals There are samples for you to listen when you click the link below
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	Artist Yulduz Usmanova Album Review The Best of Yulduz Usmanova Label: Blue Flame Genre: Contemporary Folk Origin: Uzbekistan Format: Music CD Wiki article
Yulduz Usmanova is from Uzbekistan, along the fabled Silk Road trade route in Central Asia. Her singing is a fusion of intricately coded styles, which includes borrowings from Turkish and Persian rhythms and scales. She is accompanied by the tanbur (a long-necked lute) and the doira (a hand drum) but often wields a wicked backbeat and sees no reason why she should not use the latest electronic percussion and synthesizers. She is a folk singer and a club diva, a Moslem woman who wears miniskirts and was elected to her country's parliament, and an international figure who resides in a rural area outside of Tashkent. Click the link below to listen to samples
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