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 Sinikka Langeland
Starflowers (ECM Records, 2007) Although Sinikka Langeland is a Norwegian folk singer, don't expect an album of virtuoso hardanger fiddles. Instead, Starflowers, her latest recording, is an intimate recording, featuring tranquil pieces with voice, kantele (Finnish zither) and, at times, saxophone and trumpet. It's an ECM production so will find the usual elements of atmospheric, nearly minimal, jazz and also instrument...
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Mtukudzi's Contemplative Journey |
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 Oliver Mtukudzi Tsimba Itsoka (Heads Up International, 2007)
Zimbabwe's Afro Pop icon Oliver Mtukudzi's latest CD entitled Tsimba Itsoka, released before his October 2007 North American tour, is bright and breezy on the surface while it soberly questions how we live our lives. The title translated literally means "no foot, no footprint," tran...
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 Northern Cree and Friends
Calling All Dancers, Vol. 6 (Canyon Records, 2007) The Northern Cree group, from Alberta (Canada) has become one of the stars of the pow wow circuit. Their CDs are regularly nominated for Aboriginal music awards in Canada and Native American music awards in the United States. Northern Cree and Friends, Volume 5, Calling All Dancers, is the latest CD of explosive vocals and drumming. The aboriginal Canadian musicians are captured live, showing the intensity of their live performances.
The program on the CD are round dances, which were traditionally healing ceremonies. The liner notes explosion that the Cree round dances are "filled...
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Chuchito Valdés, Jessica Fichot, Mariachi Divas to Headline the Global Lineup at the 9th Annual... |
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 - Innovative, multiethnic music acts will highlight the global music lineup at the Eagle Rock Music Festival, Saturday, October 6, from 5 p.m. to midnight, free of charge and open to all. Other stages at the festival will include a second mainstage and showcases devoted to local rock, jazz, and eclectic music.
Headliner Chuchito Valdés, of Cancun, Mexico, and popular L.A.- based artists Jessica Fichot, Black Shakespeare + The King Rockers, Michele Greene, and the Mariachi Divas (sponsored by the Los Angeles County Arts Commission and Recording Industries' Music Performance Fund) will be featured on a Global Stage, and other artists, including Charangoa, El Haru-Kuroi, Café Fuego, will play in showcases up and down Colorado Boulevard along the street festival.
Pianist Chuchito Vald&eacut...
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Greentrax Recordings Releases a Collection of Pieces by the Late Gordon Duncan in Just for Gordon |
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 Gordon Duncan was regarded as one of the finest Scottish pipers in recent times. "While steeped in the art of traditional highland piping, his approach to his music was always imaginative, fresh and at times radical, to the extent that his influence can be heard within an entire generation of younger musicians across Scotland and well beyond," said of Gary West, fellow piper and full time lecturer in the Department of Celtic and Scottish Studies at the University of Edinburgh.
Gordon recorded three solo albums for Greentrax Recordings (" ...
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