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Airileke
Weapon Of Choice [ Wantok / CD - released 4/Mar/2013 ] Airileke (i-reh-ley-key) is a respected Melbourne-based producer and artist that has built a name for himself through innovative projects such as DRUM DRUM, Guerilla Step and the Wantok Musik Foundation. The release of his debut album... |
Balkan Beat Box
Give [ Crammed Discs / CD - released 8/Jun/2012 ] BBB are back with their most musically intense and lyrically explosive album yet. |
Bombino
Nomad [ Nonesuch / CD - released 1/Apr/2013 ] At the invitation of The Black Keys' Dan Auerbach, the Niger-born artist Omara "Bombino" Moctar and his band traveled to Nashville for the recording of Nomad, helmed by Auerbach at his studio, Easy Eye Sound. Born and raised in Niger, in and... |
Breabach
Ùrlar [ Stem / CD - released 7/Mar/2014 ] 'Ùrlar' is the latest installment from 2012 Scottish Folk Band of the Year, Breabach. In June of 2013 the band toured Scotland and visited each of their 5 hometowns for a very special night of music. During the visits the band were able to meet wi |
Buena Vista Social Club
At Carnegie Hall (Double LP) [ BMG / ADA / 2 LP - released 26/Nov/2008 ] It seems very strange that World Circuit/Nonesuch would wait ten long years to issue this historic document of the grand, wildly celebrated Buena Vista Social Club concert at Carnegie Hall. This is the very show so wonderfully and artfully... |
Buena Vista Social Club
Buena Vista Social Club [ BMG / ADA / CD - released 7/Sep/1997 ] The original Cuban classic, stretching the boundaries of world music and western guitar idioms. |
Calexico
Algiers [ Spunk Records / CD - released 13/Sep/2012 ] For 'Algiers', Calexico's core duo of Joey Burns and John Convertino relocated to New Orleans for the bulk of the recording sessions - living and working in a converted church in the outskirts neighborhood for which the record is named. |
Calexico
Edge Of The Sun [ Spunk / CD - released 10/Apr/2015 ] Calexico are back with their follow-up to 2012's Algiers and the 2013 live album Spiritoso. Their new album is called Edge of the Sun, and it features collaborations with Neko Case, Iron & Wine's Sam Beam, Band of Horses' Ben Bridwell, DeVotchka's... |
The Gloaming
2 [ Real World / CD - released 4/Mar/2016 ] THE GLOAMING dwells at a musical crossroads, enhancing traditional Irish music's rich, melancholic tones with modern hues of jazz, contemporary classical, and experimental music. Steeped in traditional Irish music since birth, fiddlers Martin... |
The Gloaming
The Gloaming [ Real World / CD - released 31/Jan/2015 ] These five virtuoso musicians first met to explore new music at West Grouse Lodge Studios is West Meath, Ireland, in early 2011. Each came at Irish music from their own perspective, bringing a slightly different take on the rich musical heritage and... |
John Grant
Grey Tickles, Black Pressure [ Bella Union / CD - released 9/Oct/2015 ] John Grant's third album, the invitingly titled 'Grey Tickles, Black Pressure', a veritable tour-de-force that further refines and entwines his two principal strands of musical DNA, the sumptuous tempered ballad and the taut, fizzing electronic pop... |
John Grant
Grey Tickles, Black Pressure (2LP) [ LP - released 9/Oct/2015 ] John Grant's third album, the invitingly titled 'Grey Tickles, Black Pressure', a veritable tour-de-force that further refines and entwines his two principal strands of musical DNA, the sumptuous tempered ballad and the taut, fizzing electronic pop... |
La Chiva Gantiva
Vivo [ Crammed Discs / CD - released 28/Feb/2014 ] The story of La Chiva Gantiva began in Brussels when three young Colombian students started to play percussion together. Driven by a desire to assert their roots, they began to blend Afro-Colombian rhythms with other styles of music they loved... |
Ladysmith Black Mambazo
Songs From A Zulu Farm [ Proper Associates / CD - released 7/Feb/2011 ] |
Lake Street Dive
Bad Self Portraits [ Signature Sounds / CD - released 10/Mar/2014 ] Lake Street Dive's initials may spell "LSD," but the Massachusetts-bred quartet are mostly tripping on Motown-meets-Muscle Shoals soul nostalgia, while frontwoman Rachael Price's big voice triggers flashbacks of Amy Winehouse and her forebears. These... |
Louis Baker
I Just Want to Thank You (7") [ Louis Baker Records / 7in - released 19/Sep/2014 ] "Just Want To Thank You" was recorded in the Red Bull Studios in Auckland, celebrating Louis' time spent at the New York City edition of the Academy last year. "When writing this song, I was musing on two ideas, the first was about how thankful I... |
Malawi Mouse Boys
He is #1 [ IRL / CD - released 13/Jul/2012 ] The Malawi Mouse Boys is a band of eight members - a group of young villagers who have been playing music together and writing songs since they were children. He is #1 is their first album - a collection of rootsy and authentic songs of faith and... |
Mel Parsons
Over My Shoulder [ Cape Road Recordings New Zealand / CD - released 9/Mar/2009 ] Inspired by all the usual suspects - love, heartbreak & loss - West Coast native Mel Parsons presents this beautifully produced debut album, featuring guests spots from Don McGlashan, The Sami Sisters and Neil Watson. |
Mel Parsons
Red Grey Blue [ Cape Road Records / CD - released 16/Sep/2011 ] Tui-award finalist Mel Parsons presents her second album, 'Red Grey Blue', which runs the gamut from gentle and assured, to the depths of darkness and everything in between. |
Mokoomba
Rising Tide [ Igloo / CD - released 13/Aug/2012 ] Hailed as the future of Afrosound, the six young men of Mokoomba represent Zimbabwe's next generation of hope - exuberant, energetic, bursting with natural talent and contagious rhythm. |
