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Xango Music Distribution Release #6 – 2020 Pagina | 1 Xango Music celebrating over 20 years distributing local music from all over the world Office: Singelstraat 1, 3513 BL Utrecht, NL www.xmd.nl - [email protected] - +31 6 260 263 60 Warehouse: Berenkoog 53 C, 1822 BN, Alkmaar (NL) e: [email protected] t: +31 (0)72 - 567 3030 NEW RELEASES NO. 6 – 2020 Tamikrest: Tamotait (Out on Friday March 27th, 2020) GBCD 91 / € 10,45 / 4030433609125 / label: Glitterbeat Records / format: CD / Mali – Touareg GBLP 91 / € 13,45 / 4030433609118 / label: Glitterbeat Records / format: LP / Mali – Touareg Tamikrest return with a vivid, irrepressible rock and roll statement. Their most powerful album since 2013’s wildly acclaimed Chatma, Tamotaït finds the band not only turning up the volume, but also sharpening their meditative atmospherics and ruminations on the state of the Sahara and the world beyond. Features acclaimed Moroccan singer Hindi Zahra. Sometimes music is more than the notes played or the words sung. With the political situation so volatile and desperate in the Saharan ancestral lands from which Tamikrest come, this is more than an album. This is resistance. Listen to a track. Carla Pires: Cartografado OCA 41 / € 9,45 / 0767870978388 / label: Ocarina / format: CD / Portugal – Fado The surprise of a fado with a wandering soul, Carla Pires' fourth studio album, titled Cartografado. With this new work, the brilliance of her touch, the emotional richness of her voice, and the combination they have together, gain a greater dimension of a modernity eternally wondering since age-old times but listening eagerly to the future. We see in her singing a Fado-map open to contact with words and sounds of multiple origins, in dialogue with everything that this artist's journey brings as a motivation for a meeting. Listen. Fado Ao Centro: De Coimbra Com Amor FAC 2020 / € 10,95 / 7427047798326 / label: Fado ao Centro / format: CD / Portugal – Fado At their concerts in Lisbon, Oporto and Coimbra, the musicians from Fado to Centro - Joao Farinha (voice), Hugo Gamboias (guitar), Luis Barroso (guitar), Luís Carlos Santos (viola), Luís Pedro Madeira (bass) - are accompanied by a group of special guests, some singers and the Opus Quatro string quartet. In Coimbra, at TAGV, a place where everyone always returns, there is also a special presence of the Choir of the Former Orfeonists of the University of Coimbra, Alma Mater. To take the Fado further, a repertoire all made around what Coimbra means to music in Portugal, based on the deep roots of Fado and always looking for new voices and new challenges. Teaser. Maja Heurling & Ola Sandstrom: Irrbloss – Tonsatta Dikter Av Signe Aurell KAKACD 39 / € 9,45 / 7320470240748 / label: Kakafon Records / format: CD / Sweden – Folk Maja Heurling is an artist and composer and 'Irrbloss' is Maja Heurling's fourth album. Ola Sandstrom is a guitarist, composer and singer. Maja Heurling and Ola Sandstrom have worked together for three years to compose music to Signe Aurell's poems. Signe Aurell emigrated to the USA to start a new life. She published the poem collection 'Irrbloss', about the homesickness and the struggle for social justice and equality, on her own, in Swedish, in Minnesota in 1919. The album 'Irrbloss' was released exactly 100 years after the collection of poems was published. Listen. Mi Linda Dama: Skalerica RMR 219 / € 10,95 / 8032584612197 / label: RadiciMusic Records / format: CD / Italy – Sephardic Mi Linda Dama has been singing songs of the Sephardic Diaspora since 2015, re-arranged in order to emphasize the fusion of all of the Mediterranean cultures involved in this tradition, with a sound which mediates between past and present times thanks to the use of instruments belonging to different realms and eras. An exploration which also wants to be fusion, rebirth, innovation. The blend of acoustic and electronic instruments has liberated the musicians’ creativity and the repertoire has been enriched by melodies of their own composition. The Mediterranean sea remains firmly at the centre, with its moving stories these songs tell: exile, love, longing for the homeland. Listen to track. Ondanueve String Quartet: Mutazioni RMR 214 / € 10,95 / 8032584612142 / label: RadiciMucic Records / format: CD / Italy – Fusion Four instruments of classical derivation. Four musicians that have combined classical experiences with World Music and Jazz, in order to emphasize the expressive potential of four "traditional" stringed instruments in a fresh and original vision. Despite the traditional academic and classical approach, the situation has changed over time, thanks to the experimentation and innovation in that field from famous artists such as Turtle Island String Quartet or the Kronos Quartet. It is on this evolutionary path that the Ondanueve string quartet comes to life. A string quartet which was born from a friendship and has turned into an artistic partnership. Listen. Xango Music Distribution Release #6 – 2020 Pagina | 1 Elias Nardi, Daniele di Bonaventura & Ares Tavolazzi: Ghimel VM 3027 / € 9,95 / 8392347030270 / label: Visage Music / format: CD / Italy – Fusion This album presents original compositions where psychedelic and minimalistic atmospheres seamlessly accompany the jazz and ethno-jazz elements, and improvisation (that plays an important role both in Middle Eastern music tradition and in jazz) is offered plenty of space. However the more “Classical” aesthetic is not forgotten from the mix either, and its forms and structures perfect the musical canvas. And precisely these concepts of continuous research and experimentation are the driving forces behind this Trio. Listen. New Landscapes: Menhir VM 3028 / € 9,95 / 8392347030287 / label: Visage Music / format: CD / Italy – Fusion The trio takes care of the choice and refinement of the repertoire and the concept of this album, which will emphasizes the passion for ancient music and for a new contemporary music. Once again the trio investigates the possibility of going beyond the boundaries of musical genres and artistic periods. One of the suggestions comes from the menhir: "The most significant object of the Stone Age. Static object, guide and signal, space to travel in the era of nomadism. Erected in a neutral territory, not referable to any village. It is a territory in which several populations recognize a powerful symbolic value." Listen. Norman Mackay: The Inventor CAWCD 2 / € 10,95 / 1919246405922 / label: Birnam Music / format: CD / Scotland – Folk Norman Mackay is a Scottish Musician, composer and furniture maker based in Edinburgh. Combining traditional and contemporary elements, his work crosses between the Scottish and European influences of his compositions to his woodwork and furniture making which, working with the natural elements of the wood, merges style with innovation. This album of new compositional works is featuring an eclectic lineup of Scotland’s leading musicians, the album merges Scottish and European influences, crossing both boundary and genre. Listen to a track. Pons Aelius: Fire Under The Bridge PACD 3 / € 10,95 / 0880992158640 / label: Birnam Music / format: CD / Scotland – Folk Fire Under the Bridge, the band's second full length offering, represents a culmination of five years of road- earned experience. They have finally captured the essence of their live sound, and assembled a crack-team of production wizards to help them bottle it. At the helm was the inimitable Josh Clark (Flook, Kate Rusby), whose attention to detail and musical ear left no stone unturned. After a week of tracking at J&J Studios in Bristol, the recordings were mixed at Josh's home studio before being sent to Gran's House studio on the banks of the Clyde. Dan Ar Braz: Dan Ar Dans DAB 6 / € 9,45 / 3359340163508 / label: Paker Prod / format: CD / France-Brittany – breton Dan Ar Braz has chosen to dust off some of his many compositions in order to bring them back to life with all the experience he has acquired over the years. New album, new band, with musicians, some of whom have been accompanying him for a long time. Let's mention a few of them: Patrick Boileau, David Er Porh, Patrick Péron, Jonathan Dour, Yannick Hardouin, Bagad Kemper... or singer Clarisse Lavanant. The album also features tracks from his first solo albums. A new success to be put to the credit of the Breton artists. Listen. Ronan Le Bars Group: Strink Mor PPR 30 / € 9,45 / 3359340163515 / label: Paker Prod / format: CD / France-Brittany – Breton The uilleann pipe is a typically Irish instrument which is played all over the world and particularly in Brittany where it is meeting more and more adepts and amateurs. Among all of them, Ronan Le Bars is certainly the Breton virtuoso most recognized for the practice of this instrument. For eight years now, he has been performing under his own name with the Ronan Le Bars Group, exploring new horizons of Breton music and different world cultures. This album is a small jewel of sensitivity. A Rase De Tere: Djouwe COLCD 139 / € 9,45 / 5419999000673 / label: Colophon Records / format: CD / Belgium – Folk A Rase de tere (literally meaning “at ground level” in Walloon language) was created in 2005. They play dance tunes called “arguedenes” in the Walloon dialect spoken in southern Belgium. Traditionally, the melody line is orally transmitted and the accompaniment is improvised. A flugelhorn, cornet, euphonium, and helicon form a balanced ensemble that is well suited to this musical genre in vogue from the mid-19th century until the turn of the 20th century. Seda Sodeyfi: Suite For Qanoon And String Orchestra PR 16 / € 9,95 / 1934833541630 / label: Pardis Records / format: CD / Iran – Traditional Presenting the folk music with a classical orchestra provides the audiences of different cultures with the chance to listen to them with a global taste. It also makes these regional themes grow and stops their fading. Listen. Shima Shahmohammadi: Suite For Qeychak And String Orchestra PR 17 / € 9,95 / 1934833242032 / label: Pardis Records / format: CD / Iran – Traditional Suite for Qeychak and String Orchestra' composed by Iranian well-known composer Behzad Abdi and Qeychak Soloist: Shima Shahmohammadi.
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