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Amparanoia: Himnopsis Colectiva LMR 2021001 / 8435633999537 / label: Mamita Records / format: CD / Spain – Mestizo ‘Himnopsis Colectiva’, is the title of the new album of Amparanoia, definitely one of Spain’s leading world music bands. Amparanoia stands since 2007 for an authentic southern mestizo sound with the caractheristic and unrivaled voice and appearence of Amparo Sánchez. There is of course the representative warm voice of Amparo Sánchez, that goes so well together with her typical musical style that deals of course with old style cumbia, some carribean reggae tunes, rumba or boogaloo, but even so with a more electronic approach, desert rock, Balkan-influenced songs or pure pop music. Listen to a track.

Dal:um: Similar & Different GBCD 112 / 4030433611227 / label: tak:til / format: CD / South Korea – Fusion Dal:um is a musical duo based in Seoul, who challenges the sonic possibilities of Korea’s most well-known traditional string instruments: the gayageum and geomungo. Ethereal and otherworldly, Dal:um create a compelling soundworld that treasures subtle dynamics and the space between the notes. Two musicians. Two weighty acoustic stringed instruments. A dialogue between traditional and experimental practices. A melding of both new possibilities and deeply travelled resonances. Dal:um’s beautifully balanced and expansive music is defined by inspired dialogue and creative paradox. Listen.

Kudsi Erguner & Lamekan Ensemble: Fragments Des Ceremonies Soufies – L’Invitation a L’Extase 2GN 13 / 0745125354019 / label: Seyir Muzik / format: CD / Turkey – Sufi Lamekan Ensemble, directed by Belgian musicologist and oud player Tristan Driessens, has been a breath of fresh air for the music of the Ottoman Empire since more than a decade now. After releasing three albums and performing of major venues in Europe, the Middle-East and Central Asia, the sextet is back with a brand new album. The ensemble invited ney master, director and Unesco artist Kudsi Erguner to create a project focusing on the renewal of the ceremonial music of the whirling dervishes. The result is an album celebrating Sufi music and poetry in their purest form, rearranged in a new way in order to offer a unique listening experience to Sufi music lovers. Listen.

Massimo Giuntini & Silvio Trotta: Libero Arbitrio RMR 254 / 8032584612548 / label: RadiciMusic Records / format: CD / Italy – Folk Massimo Giuntini, a musician from Arezzo with a Celtic heart, and Silvio Trotta, a musician from Molise, from Capracotta, immersed in the folk sounds of the south, combine their passion for music in an original search for continuity between the multiple folds of the multifaceted world of folk. The vibrant sounds of Irish uilleann pipes combine with strings steeped in Italian tradition to structure a repertoire that testifies to the possibility of overcoming boundaries in a natural encounter between cultures. The CD also contains many tributes. The song "Nel giardino dei salici" was composed by Angelo Branduardi on a lyric by Irish poet William Butler Yeats. "Il cammino" was composed by Corrado Sfogli (Nuova Compagnia di Canto Popolare) before his death in March 2020. Breton percussionist David Hopi Hopkins is also a guest on the album. Listen.

Miranda Cortes: Il Coraggio RMR 251 / 8032584612517 / label: RadiciMusic Records / format: CD / France – Accordeon This is a solo work, from A to Z. - The protagonist could only be the accordion, but accompanied by the presence of friends and important guests: Michele and Marco Pucci on electric guitar, Emmanuele Praticelli on cello, Michele Sguotti on violin and viola. Thanks to Simone Faliva for his participation with the evocative power of the electronic dimension. Recorded between the end of August 2020 and March of this year, 'Il Coraggio' is a bold, multiform work. It contains all the passion, commitment and experience of Miranda Cortes: a career full of encounters and collaborations; research in ethnomusicology. Listen to a track.

Ivan Francesco Ballerini: Ancora Libero RMR 481 / 8032584614818 / label: RadiciMusic Records / format: CD / Italy – Popular The songwriting is light, committed to everyday words and at the same time light-hearted with a romantic appeal with which to face everyday life. This sound of great popular music is inevitably the child of classic listening, decidedly against the digital transgressions of today's many indie scenes. The narrative shifts to everyday life, personal and social examination, between the world that lives around us, measures us, conditions us and what are still our freedoms. Love becomes the hinge and reference point for much of the disc's lyrical inspiration. Listen to a track. Xango Music Distribution Release #13 – 2021 Pagina | 1

Tacabanda: E Continuo A Cercare... RMR 250 / 8032584612500 / label: RadiciMusic Records / format: CD / Italy – Folk-Rock After an absence of more than 15 years they are back with a new work, written and recorded between 2018 and 2019, already released as singles and videos between 2019 and 2020. The need was to crystallise this historical moment with a new production with an evocative title 'E Continuo A Cercare...'. As in the previous records, captivated by new and old sounds, they explore different musical territories until they lose themselves in a vortex of sounds, colours and emotions that cross and mingle, maintaining the irony and curiosity of the beginning. It is a quest that returns to the music of their home territory, Venice. Listen.

Boikot: Balkan Acoustic MR 21669 / 8436543123791 / label: Maldito Records / format: CD / Spain – Mestizo If the world has been forced to live an impasse, caused by a virus, Boikot have wanted to act accordingly in this time of home isolation and obligatory reflection. These are not new songs that they present to us on 'Balkan Acoustic', it is not just another album in Boikot's career, it is the result of having lived through exceptional times, circumstances that we would never have thought of living through beyond the screen of a cinema. The new album is the testimony of these strange times, Boikot have wanted to reflect and for this they have chosen to record recreations of indispensable titles from their repertoire with a musical treatment that has nothing to do with their usual punk rock and electrified line. Listen to a track.

Juanito Makande: La Raiz Del Viento (LP release July 30th, 2021) SATKCD 329 / 8435307612175 / label: Satelite K / format: CD / Spain – Flamenco-Fusion SATKLP 329 / 8435307612182 / label: Satelite K / format: LP / Spain – Flamenco-Fusion 'La Raiz Del Viento' is an acoustic album by Juanito Makande, recorded live and without audince, with which he revisits his most intimate side just as he celebrates his twentieth birthday. A very special album that he has recorded with the masters Josep Pou on piano and Toni Cuenca on double bass, live, with three string instruments, searching for the natural pulse of the songs. His fans had been asking him for an album like this for a long time, with acoustic songs, stripped down, without so many instruments. Recorded in the heart of the Sierra de Tramuntana. Listen to a track.

Now also available on vinyl: Khaira Arby: Live In New York 2010 CLECD 33 / 0711574917822 / label: Clermont Music / format: CD / Mali – Popular CLELP 33 / 0711574917815 / label: Clermont Music / format: LP / Mali – Popular

Now also available on vinyl: L’Alba: A Principiu BUDA 860367 / 3341348603674 / label: Buda Musique / format: CD / Corsica – Folk-Fusion BUDA 260323 / 3341342603236 / label: Buda Musique / format: LP / Corsica – Folk-Fusion

Various: Sound Storing Machine – First 78RPM Records From Japan 1903-1912 SUBFCD 115 / 0843563137550 / label: Sublime Frequencies / format: CD / Japan – Traditional The first commercial recordings from Asia were made in Japan in 1903 by Fred Gaisberg, the legendary producer and recording engineer who traveled the world making recordings for the Gramophone Company (later His Masters Voice). It is a miracle what these fragile discs have survived: wars with Russia and China, the fire bombings (and worse) of World War II, modernization, the onslaught of Western media.They document, through a dreamlike haze of surface noise, a Japan that had just barely begun to open its doors to the rest of the world. Including gagaku, shakuhachi, shamisen, storytelling, folksong and more. these recordings are a unique glimpse into an ancient culture and an important document of the beginnings of the recording industry. Simple and complex. Alien and familiar.

Various: Mien (Yao) – Canon Singing In China, Vietnam And Laos SUBFLP 117 / 0843563134108 / label: Sublime Frequencies / format: LP / Various – Traditional Raw, ethereal, and cosmic -- for fans of Bulgarian choir and Javanese Court Gamelan and Sundanese styles of vocal ascension. Although their name comes from a pejorative Chinese expression that means "dog" or "savage" -- stemming from a legend that they were founded by a dog who saved the life of the daughter of a Chinese emperor and thus was rewarded with her hand in marriage -- the largest branch of the YAO minority call themselves MIEN, which means simply "people". They number four million and are spread over the southern Chinese provinces of Guizhou, Guangxi, Yunnan, and also migrated to Vietnam, Laos, and Thailand over the last centuries. Part of the Miao-Yao (Hmong Mien) group of the Sino-Tibetan ethnolinguistic family, they have many subgroups, defined according to colors of their traditional clothes.

Dagar Gyil Ensemble Of Lawra: Dagara – Gyil Music Of Ghana’s Upper West Region SUBFLP 118 / 0843563134887 / label: Sublime Frequencies / format: LP / Ghana – Traditional Field recordings of Lobi traditional xylophone (gyil) music recorded by Hisham Mayet on location in Ghana's Upper West Region, West Africa in 2019. Featuring Aaron Bebe Sukura, considered one of the gyil's master musicians from this area. Long form trance music with acoustic instruments sounding like several minimalist orchestras getting to maximalist sonic peaks. The gyil music of the Dagara is a complex multi-dimensional symphony of notes, bringing to life an animist expression that reveals a cultural dialogue between the spirits, the deceased, musicians, dancers, and audience alike. The intensity of this recording reaches a level of complexity that rivals techno music. It is in essence an acoustic techno music, utilizing organic instruments played by master musicians creating a sonic wanderlust of mesmerizing sound. Xango Music Distribution Release #13 – 2021 Pagina | 2

Energie Noire: Disclosed Motions ONZCD 39 / 3760288801030 / label: Absilone / format: CD / France – Jazz After two albums with numerous guests, Energie Noire presents a new album in the pure form of the duo. Energie Noire is the fruit of a meeting between breath and machine, of meticulous improvisation and programming, of know-how at the service of a music in perpetual mutation. Vincent Raude (Upwellings, Lower Groundz...) and Nicolas Péoc'h (The Khu, Oko...) have been blurring the lines since 2014 with the experiments carried out in their joint laboratory.

Stephane Payen: The Workshop – More Conversations With The Drum ONZCD 36 / 3760288800644 / label: Absilone / format: CD / France – Jazz The Workshop started as a musical laboratory: hours of sessions, to discover, interiorize and share the music of Stephane Payen, Doug Hammond (with whom the saxophonist plays since a few years) or Hans Werner Henze. Through this project, Stephane Payen proposes a reflection on certain foundations of sub- Saharan African music (mainly from West and Central Africa). Over the years, the saxophonist and composer has carried out extensive research to understand what seems to govern music where the notion of the collective is paramount (Senegalese sabar or the music of the Aka and Ba-benzele pygmies).

Isabel Sorling: Mareld IR 1711 / 3683080197821 / label: Absilone / format: CD / Sweden – Pop-Fusion Isabel Sorling is an artist who freely navigates the boundaries between improvisation, folk, and avant-garde, blending vulnerability with mastery. Based in Paris since a few years back, she's often touring with musicians from Europe on the jazz and improvised scene. Her music could be compared to an initiatory journey, a sort of ritual trance, in which the aridity of a traditional land (rhythms and percussions inspired by African music) and the splendour of a contemporary luxuriance (use of samples and synthesizers...) are mixed. Listen.

Kyrie Kristmanson: Lady Lightly IR 17071 / 3683080197791 / label: Absilone / format: CD / Canada – Pop-Fusion Kyrie Kristmanson develops a kaleidoscopic universe, a musical emanation of pop, electro, medieval sounds... a singular mix of very old energies with an enchanting look at the present. Today, fascinated by the discoveries of quantum physics, Kyrie wonders about the hypothesis of a musical tradition coming from a parallel world... The result of this questioning is a kind of folk-cosmic that seems to have travelled light years through stellar skies. Listen to a track. OUT SOON

Basco feat. Julie Hjetland: Raek Mig Faklen (CD out now & LP release July 16th, 2021) GOLP 1520 / 5705934003985 / label: Go’Danish / format: LP / Various – Folk The prize winning Nordic quintet Basco is made up of Scottish multi-instrumentalist Hal Parfitt-Murray, the Danish Andreas Tophøj and Anders Ringgaard, the virtuoso citternist Ale Carr and the irrepressable Danish/Norwegian singer Jullie Hjetland, and together they rework folk-tales and legends from Scandianavia so they steam with fear and love, violence and merryment, hate and sadness. Basco and Jullie have given the old stories from the north new, counterpointing the tales with elements of smoky scottish reels, flying norwegian halling dances, polkas from a danish summer night, and the trolls in a deep swedish forest.

Orchestre International Du Vetex: Plaza Mayor (release August 13th, 2021) VLR 18 / 5425021010183 / label: Via Lactea / format: CD / Belgium – Brass Plaza Mayor is the title of the brand new 2021 album by the Belgian-French Orchestre International du Vetex. 'Plaza Mayor' wants to transform your 2021 summer into a brilliant, colourful and positive experience, with the typical sound of Vetex: a 'home made' mixture of Balkan music, latin vibes and surrealistic undertones. There is the rich tradition of brass band music from their own region, the influence of Balkan music and Central European rhythms as well as music from Southern Europe and Latin America. It is this mixture of styles with a special cross-border identity that makes 'du Vetex' unique.

Natik Awayez: Manbarani (release August 13th, 2021) SUBFLP 116 / 0843563134795 / label: Sublime Frequencies / format: LP / Iraq – Arabic A pure, expressive sound breaking free like a bundle of torn, faded oracles spreading far and wide across the empty spaces. Rhythmic percussive arrangements by Khaled Yassine are the foundation for oud, violin, buzuq, and Awayez' lush voice, which floats atop the instrumentation like a series of prayers baking deep inside the ovens of sadness and despair, only to manifest as inspiration for the soul's navigation towards redemption. Recorded in Cairo, with some of the region's best-known musicians: Tamer Abu Ghazaleh and Maryam Saleh, Aya Hemeda and Adham Zidan, Khaled Yassine and Ayman Asfour. Listen.

Canzoniere Grecanico Salentino: Meridiana (release August 27th, 2021) PON 151 / 8030482002737 / label: Ponderosa / format: CD / Italy – Folk PONLP 19 / 8030482002744 / label: Ponderosa / format: LP / Italy – Folk Canzoniere Grecanico Salentino is the most important popular music group in Salento, the first to be formed in Apulia. Italy's fascinating dichotomy of tradition and modernity come together in the music of Canzoniere Grecanico Salentino: the seven piece band and dancer are the leading exponents in a new wave of young performers re-inventing Southern Italy's Pizzica musical and dance traditions for today's global audience. Their music is an explosion of energy, passion, rhythm and magic, taking you on a journey from the past to the present to the beat of the tambourine, the beating heart of Salento tradition. Listen to a track. Xango Music Distribution Release #13 – 2021 Pagina | 3

Monsieur Doumani: Pissourin (release September 10th, 2021) GBCD 114 / 4030433611425 / label: Glitterbeat Records / format: CD / Cyprus – Popular GBLP 114 / 4030433611418 / label: Glitterbeat Records / format: LP / Cyprus – Popular This much acclaimed Cyprus-based trio return with a thrilling fourth album. The record pushes their trademark Mediterranean sonics into a deep psychedelic and avant-folk direction. A danceable fever storm of stringed instruments, multi-layered singing and trombone-driven low end. Since their beginning in 2011, the trio have been globally-lauded for their innovative, highly-charged acoustic reinventions of the Cypriot tradition. Yet after three albums they’d grown restless, searching for something new. A challenge, a fresh resonance that illustrated the people they’d become. The timing was certainly right. After eight years, founding member Angelos Ionas had decided to leave the band. To replace him, Andys Skordis, who was already a touring guitarist with the group, joined full-time and began to contribute his own ideas. Listen.

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