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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 / – 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 and , 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 / -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 / – 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. Recorded at House of Sound in Kiev, Ukraine, and performed by National Symphony Orchestra of Ukraine, conducted by Velodimir Sirenko. Listen.

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Darawish: Madar M40185 2019 / € 9,95 / 8435383669117 / label: Darawish / format: CD / Spain – Fusion Spanish musicians who have lived in Arabian countries and and Persian people who are living in Spain gather together to share and develop their experiences in a contemporary context. Going from the Arab Maqam, through the Huzam, or to the Persian Segah mode, Darawish plunges into the whirlwind of reality in which we live and its tireless and endless spinning (like the dervish ). The result is a wide range of music. A multicolored repertoire of own compositions inspired by the classical and folkloric musical heritage of the Mediterranean and Middle East, especially Arabic and Persian, expressed with a contemporary vision through the influences from jazz and other trends of modern music from the West. Listen.

Masters Of Frame Drums: Elements (Out on Friday March 27th, 2020) 2GN 10 / € 9,45 / 0705632576250 / label: Seyir Muzik / format: CD / Various – Percussion The original drumming inspired by the Sufi tradition of the "dervish of frame drums" Murat Coskun, the technical virtuosity and lyricism of the Israeli voice Zohar Fresco, the iconic sound of the rituals of the American shamans of Glen Velez and the rhythms of Italian folk music combined with his experiences in jazz by Andrea Piccioni, are the ingredients of "Masters Of Frame Drums". Four internationally renowned master percussionists join and do what they can do best: DRUMMING! They meet for a 'summit of frame drums' and present their unique and literally border crossing project. Listen to a track.

Helena Vedralova & Muziga: Zezali Zvazali 2664533 / 10,95 / 8595026645332 / label: Indies Scope / format: CD / Czech Republic – Folk Muziga is a musical group that has long been inspired by Czech and Moravian folklore. At present, the music of Muziga ranges from pure chamber music in two to large projects with a jazz or symphony orchestra and is probably classified as world music. On the album Zezali they tied up songs that speak of the joys and sorrows of human action, of a variety of experiences and feelings that cannot be summed up in simple words. Folk songs, hundreds of years old, still impress with their depth and authenticity and are the essence of unchanging life values.

Pauli Lyytinen Magnetia Orkesteri feat. Verneri Pohjola: Hypnosis ECD 2020107 / € 9,95 / 0194491878160 / label: Eclipse Music / format: CD / Finland – Jazz ELP 202021 / € 14,95 / 1944918781608 / label: Eclipse Music / format: LP / Finland – Jazz Pauli Lyytinen is a Helsinki based musician and composer. Lyytinen’s approach to music is always improvisatory and experimental regardless of the genre. As saxophonist he's been studying and exploring widely extended sounds and techniques and the use of effect pedals with acoustic sax. This has led him into the world of electro acoustic sounds and possibilities of solo orchestrations. He's also familiar with electronical instruments like the electric wind instrument (EWI), variety of synthesizers, samplers and drum machines. Listen to a track.

Virginija Pievos: Tolumela DNG 67 / € 9,95 / 4770319525674 / label: Dangus / format: CD / Lithuania – Popular Virginija Pievos is well known singer and musician from Lithuania, performing poetic music for more than 20 years and well known for her outstanding rich voice. With her former band Pievos she has released 'Menuli Baltas' (Dangus / DGCD 23), 'Paprastas Pasaulis'(Dangus / DGCD 35) and 'Likimas' (Dangus / DNG 49). After her folk rock band Pievos (Eng. Meadows) made their last stage performance in 2016, Virginija has continued her own musical path as multi-instrumentalist and now is back with a new solo project - looping and droning post folk, darkened melodies with shamanic groove. Listen. EXPECTED

Orkesta Mendoza: Curandero (Out on Friday April 10th, 2020) GBCD 90 / € 10,45 / 4030433609026 / label: Glitterbeat Records / format: CD / USA-Mexico – Popular GBLP 90 / € 13,45 / 4030433609019 / label: Glitterbeat Records / format: LP / USA-Mexico – Popular Sergio Mendoza (also from Calexico) grew up on both sides of the US/Mexican frontier. On the band’s 3rd album, “Curandero,” his musical melding of that experience explodes from the speakers, boogaloo, cumbia, ranchera & rock’n’roll. Orkesta Mendoza found that; as soon as the songs began to flow for Curandero the stars seemed to align and everything was composed, recorded and mastered in just a few short months. The music flows as if it had been waiting to appear. It crosses and re-crosses that fluid border between Mexico and the United States, mixing rock and pop with ranchera and cumbia alongside snatches of mariachi horns. And hovering over everything is the spirit of ‘60s boogaloo. Border music without borders. Listen.

Santrofi: Alewa (Out on Friday April 24th, 2020) OHCD 34 / € 11,80 / 4015698213973 / label: Out Here Records / format: CD / Ghana – OHLP 34 / € 13,45 / 4015698762860 / label: Out Here Records / format: LP / Ghana – Highlife Santrofi’s debut album Alewa brings a new wave of fresh highlife rooted in the past with a knowledge of the future directly from the streets of Accra. Santrofi was founded by bassist and producer Emmanuel Ofori who rose from the source having played with Ebo Taylor, Pat Thomas and Kwashibu Area Band and has now formed his own band: Santrofi. Deeplyrooted in vintage Ghanaian highlife music in all its forms. The influences range from the riveting fast-paced pulse of 70s dance-guitar highlife, or the other-worldly sound of Highlife funk to the polyrhythmic beats and melodies that took across the globe. Listen to a track.

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Fra Fra: Funeral Songs (Out on Friday April 24th, 2020) GBCD 89 / € 10,45 / 4030433608920 / label: Glitterbeat Records / format: CD / Ghana – Traditional GBLP 89 / € 13,45 / 4030433608913 / label: Glitterbeat Records / format: LP / Ghana – Traditional Raw and celebratory funeral music from northern Ghana, hypnotic kologo excursion, pulsing ercussion, and enraptured voices. Recorded 100% live and outdoors by Grammy winner Ian Brennan (Tinariwen, Ustad Saami). The Fra Fra trio is led by Small, a man who celebrates his diminutive size rather than seeing it as a lack. He picked the two-string Kologo ‘guitar' with dog-tags fastened at the head as rattles. Another hallmark of Fra Fra culture are the tiny bone mouth flutes that they actually call horns, since that is what they are made from.

Edifanko: The Pace Setters (Out on Friday May 8th, 2020) GBCD 94 / € 10,45 / 4030433609422 / label: Glitterbeat Records / format: CD / Ghana – Highlife GBLP 94 / € 13,45 / 4030433609415 / label: Glitterbeat Records / format: LP / Ghana – Highlife The first-ever reissue of the classic 1981 debut album from this much revered Ghanaian band. Vibrantly produced by British sound explorer Brian Eno in Accra, Ghana. Highlife meets afro-funk. Spirited, horn driven & trailblazing. Now, almost four decades after a coup d’état in Ghana prematurely halted their career, Edikanfo has returned. And with its surviving members gearing up to reissue and tour their classic 1981 album, “The Pace Setters,” the band is once again excitedly pointed towards the future. The LP & CD feature exclusive liner notes from Brian Eno and an extensive interview with Edikanfo band leader Gilbert Amartey Amar. Teaser.

David Linx: Skin In The Game (Book+CD) (Out on Friday May 29th, 2020) CR 297 / € 13,95 / 0194397095029 / label: Cristal Records / format: CD / Belgium – Jazz David Linx is arguably the inventor of the "European jazz singer", and he is, far beyond the European area, one of the most formidable jazz singers that can be heard. For this new opus of original compositions sung in English, he has brought together a combo of leaders with Gregory Privat on piano, Chris Jennings on double bass, Arnaud Dolmen on drums and luxury guest Manu Codjia on guitar. Between ballads and more rhythmic tracks, two songs embellished with poems by Marlon Moore add an extra colour to the album and remind us of the first sublime album made by David Linx with the writer James Baldwin in 1987.

TootArd: Migrant Birds (Out on Friday May 29th, 2020) GBCD 95 / € 10,45 / 4030433609521 / label: Glitterbeat Records / format: CD / Syria – Popular GBLP 95 / € 13,45 / 4030433609514 / label: Glitterbeat Records / format: LP / Syria – Popular This inventive duo of brothers from the Golan Heights – Hasan and Rami Nakhleh - return with an infectious re-imagining of their sound. Jammed full of pop hooks and quarter-tone synth lines, "Migrant Birds" unleashes a disco whirlwind that pays homage to the Middle Eastern dancefloor scenes of the 80's. Retro funky meets hi-sheen contemporary. The 80s may be the catalyst, with the glittering, hedonistic party vibe. But the real roots of the music here run deeper, to musicians like keyboardist Magdi al-Husseini and Ihsan Al-Munzer, who were the first to introduce synthesizers to the Arabic classical style, or Omar Khorshid, who pioneered the addition of electric guitar and worked with the legendary Umm Kulthum. Best Sellers Top 5 1. Lina_ Raül Refree: Lina_ Raül Refree GBCD 85 / GBLP 85 2. Jola – Hidden Music In Brussels MP 12 3. Jon Hassel & Farafina: Flash Of The Spirit GBCD 87 / GBLP 87 4. Melingo: Oasis BUDA 860359 5. Pulled By Magnets: Rose Golden Doorways GBCD 88 / GBLP 88 REVIEWS Transglobal World Music Chart March 2020 ZEA & Oscar Jan Hoogland: Summing MRCD 29 / MRLP 29 Lina_ Raül Refree: Lina_ Raül Refree GBCD 85 / GBLP 85 Espanje #1 January-March 2020 Nelia Safaie: Songs From Lands Of Silence FXCD 464 Marina Rossell: Canta Moustaki Aziza Brahim: Sahari GBCD 83 / GBLP 83 y Canciones de la Resistencia SATKCD 275 Mah Damba: Hakili Kélé BUDA 860350 Maruja Limon: Ante Mi KM 719 Mehmet Polat & Embracing Colours: Quantum Leap MP 63 Heaven #2 2020 World Music Charts March 2020 Donis: Bite Lingo – Kas Tave Saukia DNG 60 Lina_ Raül Refree: Lina_ Raül Refree GBCD 85 / GBLP 85 Michael Lane: Traveling Son GWRCD 13 Nelia Safaie: Songs From Lands Of Silence FXCD 464 Nat King Cole: Incomparable! CR 30123 Muzsikas & Amadinda: Parralels And Contrast FA 4412 Orice Jenkins: Centenial Cole TRR 50 Aziza Brahim: Sahari GBCD 83 / GBLP 83 Erik Aliana: Ancestors BUDA 775489 Volkskrant 17 March 2020 Lamia Bedioui & Solis Barki: Fin’Amor CD 2 Oum: Soul Of MDC 11 Lina_ Raül Refree: Lina_ Raül Refree GBCD 85 / GBLP 85 Oum: Zarabi MDC 13 / MDCLP 13 Kaja: Origo KAKACD 33 / KAKALP 4 Oum: Daba MDC 16 Kankou: Kuma CRR 1926 Jazzism #1 2020 Marina Rossell: Canta Moustali Y Mah Damba: Hakili Kélé BUDA 860350 Camciones de La Resistencia SATKCD 275 Daniel Dzidzonu: Walls Of Wonder WOGROCD 16 / WOGROLP 16 El Sebas De La calle: Artesania SATKCD 276 Gonzo Circus #156 2020 Los Banis: Entre Dos SATKCD 251 ZEA & Oscar Jan Hoogland: Summing MRCD 29 / MRLP 29 Chicuelo & Marco Mezquida: No Hay Dos Sin Tres MDC 2201916 Jon Hassel & Farafina: Flash Of the Spirit GBCD 87 / GBLP 87 Vila Navio: Outro Margem VN 2019 Lust for Life #9 2019 Eljuri: Resiste – La Coleccion De Eljuri MR 6147468 Lina_ Raül Refree: Lina_ Raül Refree GBCD 85 / GBLP 85 Onze handeling wordt verzorgd door Central. U kunt onze producten bestellen via Tel: 072 - 567 3030 / e-mail: [email protected] of via Phononet.

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