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	November 2024 Edition

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	Artist Samba Toure Album Review Songhai Blues: Homage to Ali Farka Toure Label: Riverboat Genre: Blues Origin: Mali Format: Music CD
Malian bluesman Samba Touré is a protégé of the legendary Ali Farka Touré. Touring with Farka Touré, Samba was profoundly influenced and began creating his own style of Songhai Blues. Bursting with energy, this is Samba's tribute to his mentor and the continuation of a desert blues legacy.
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	Artist Sergio Assad Album Review Alma Brasileira Label: Nonesuch Genre: Modern Classical Origin: Brazil Format: Music CD Wiki article
Beautiful modern classical guitar compositions by Assad, along with pieces by Villa Lobos. Born into a musical family in Mococa, São Paulo, Brazil, Sergio Assad began creating music for the guitar not long after he began playing the instrument. Click the link below to listen to samples
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	Artist Seun Anikulapo Kuti Album Review Seun Kuti and Fela's Egypt 80 Label: TOT OU TARD Genre: Afrobeat Origin: Egypt Format: Music CD, Import Wiki article
SEUN KUTI in his first afro beat effort shows that he is by far the only true representative of his father s FELA KUTI heritage. AWESOME AFROBEAT MUSIC from seun and his band.
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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 Toumani Diabate Album Review The Mande Variations Label: Nonesuch Genre: Kora Origin: Mali Format: Music CD Wiki article
The Mande Variations is Malian legend Toumani Diabat‚'s first solo recording in 20 years and it is a stunningly beautiful, immediately accessible blend of traditional melodies, original compositions and breathtaking improvisations from the world-renowned virtuoso of the kora, the 21-stringed West African harp. Samples available for you to hear, click the link below
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	Artist Various Artists Album Review Nigeria Special - Afro-sounds 1970-76 Label: Soundway Genre: Highlife Origin: Nigeria Format: Music CD, Import
A wonderful and intelligently compiled collection of Nigerian electric highlife and Afro-rock from the early 1970's. -- irresistably infectious highlife, embryonic Afrobeat style workouts, a few straight ahead rock sounds with a definite African influence.
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	Artist Various Artists Album Review Brazilian Café Label: Putumayo World Music Genre: Bassa Nova Origin: Brazil Format: Music CD
Brazilian Café brings together a captivating selection of samba, bossa nova and jazz by Brazilian stars and up-and-coming talents. In the early 1960s, legendary Brazilian composers Antônio Carlos Jobim and Vinicius de Moraes hung out in an Ipanema beachside café where they would often see a beautiful neighborhood girl, Helô Pinheiro, walk by. She became the inspiration for one of the most popular songs of all time, "Girl From Ipanema." The global bossa nova boom can be traced to that moment of musical inspiration at a Brazilian café and most of the artists on this CD drew inspiration from Jobim, de Moraes and other songwriters who followed. Brazilian Café includes songs by legendary singer and songwriter Djavan and jazz star Rosa Passos. When you click the link below there are samples for you to hear
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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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	Artist Yungchen Lhamo Album Review Ama Label: Real World Genre: Traditional Music Origin: Tibet Format: Music CD Wiki article
Ama has a transcultural aesthetic, mixing traditional Tibetan chanting and singing with Middle Eastern percussion, fuzzed guitar, Chinese erhu, and African kora, among other instruments. There are samples to hear when you click the link below
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