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Kalimba

Label: ACT Music
Released: 2007
Track listing: A Live Experience; Hambouchi; Good Mood; Kalimba Call; Youmala; Rabih's Delight; Dahin; Sabbatique; Dounia; White Widow.

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Joachim Kuhn and Majid Bekkas with Ramon Lopez: Kalimba

Read "Kalimba" reviewed by John Kelman


While it's easy to categorize the assimilation of diverse musical cultures as world music, the term has become over-utilized and often misrepresented. German-born pianist Joachim Kühn, Moroccan guimbri/oud player Majid Bekkas and Spanish drummer Ramon Lopez intersect on Kalimba, an album that should dispense with oversimplified categorization. Instead, assessed on its own merits as an album ...

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Joachim Kuhn & Majid Bekkas with Ramon Lopez: Kalimba

Read "Kalimba" reviewed by Chris May


Like the spectacular bouffant hairstyle he's sported since the 1970s, pianist Joachim Kuhn's music is at home in two, generally discrete traditions: intellectually rigorous, harmonically complex, longhair conservatoire music and a less cerebral strand of world jazz driven by vamps and grooves. Sometimes Kuhn keeps the two traditions apart--as on his classically oriented solo albums--at other ...

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Europeana (Jazzphony No.1)

Label: ACT Music
Released: 2006
Track listing: Castle In Heaven; Black Is The Colour Of My True Love's Hair; The Shepherd Of Breton; The Ingrian Rune Song; The Groom's Sister; Norwegian Psalm; Three Angels; Heaven Has Created; She Moved Through The Fair; Crebe De Chet; Midnight Sun; Londonerry Air; Otra Jazzpana.

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Joachim Kuhn: Europeana (Jazzphony No.1)

Read "Europeana (Jazzphony No.1)" reviewed by Chris May


Owing little to the main stem US jazz tradition, composer Michael Gibbs' orchestral suite Europeana has more in common with the work of folk-influenced English composers like Vaughan Williams, Benjamin Britten and Malcolm Arnold, and their particular varieties of English lyricism. It's a work of magnificence and beauty which was barely noticed on original release eleven ...

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Famous Melodies

Label: Label Bleu
Released: 1993
Track listing: Barbara Song; Dreh' Dich Nicht Um Nach Fremden Schatten (Touchez Pas Au Grisbi); Lili Marleen; Nannies Lied; Just A Gigolo; My Heart Belongs To Daddy; Cry Me A River; Johnny, Wenn Du Geburtstag Hast; Aline's House (From The Ballet "Dark"); Jealousy; Don't Worry, Be Happy.


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