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Putumayo Presents: South Africa

By Various Artists

Label: Putumayo World Music
Released: 2010
Track listing: Ujaheni; Mbombela; Oxam; Nkosi; Beautiful Feet; Mananga; Orlando; Tiki Tiki; Halala Afrika; Work; Vulamasango; Ngahlulele.

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KariJazz Presents Yanvablue

By Various Artists

Label: Karijazz
Released: 2010
Track listing: CD1: Anonse; Dey; Danbala; Magnitude 7; Mize; Mesi Bondye; Libete; San Pale; Nago Wes; Balade Manman' We; Konbit; Yoyo. CD2: Port-au-Prince; Haitian Peace Song; Life's a Bunch of Fridays; Mesi Bondye; Boarding Pass; To Mom and Dad; Blue String; I Remember Ernie; Harmonick.

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Sleepers Wake

Album: Snowfall
By Various Artists
Label: Jazz Compass
Released: 0
Duration: 4:41

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Article: Extended Analysis

Italian improvisers break out of Musica Improvvisa box

Read "Italian improvisers break out of Musica Improvvisa box" reviewed by Mark Corroto

by Mark Corroto

VariousMusica Improvvisadie Schachtel2010 Sometimes a box set of music becomes a fetish item. One that listeners (or collectors) form an irrational or excessive commitment to because it embodies some sort of magical or spiritual powers. Such may be the case for the 10-CD/DVD set ...

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Various Artists: Twenty Centuries of Stony Sleep

Read "Twenty Centuries of Stony Sleep" reviewed by John Kelman

by John Kelman

Since releasing its first album, Supersilent's groundbreaking 1--3 (1998), Rune Grammofon has evolved into one of Norway's most consistently intrepid and unfettered labels. With every passing year, it's stylistic purview--largely focusing on Norwegian artists--expands just that extra bit further, with music ranging from the sublime beauty of In the Country's debut, This Was the Pace of ...

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Various Artists: I Never Meta Guitar

Read "I Never Meta Guitar" reviewed by Mark Corroto

by Mark Corroto

There are no fans of the guitar in today's creative music--they are better described as fanatics, or devotees. But then the guitar has always caused listeners to choose sides. I'm a fan of Jimmy Page and you, Pete Townshend--or do you prefer Wes Montgomery to my Jim Hall. John McLaughlin or Pete Cosey? Some of these ...

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Article: Extended Analysis

Various Artists: Music of Central Asia, Volumes 7 - 9

Read "Various Artists: Music of Central Asia, Volumes 7 - 9" reviewed by Greg Camphire

by Greg Camphire

Various ArtistsMusic of Central Asia, Volumes 7--9Smithsonian Folkways2010 The three 2010 CD/DVD releases covered here are just a taste of a stunning and comprehensive nine-volume Music of Central Asia set from Smithsonian Folkways that spans various musical traditions and innovations from a vast, overlapping region including Afghanistan, Kazakhstan, ...

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Various Artists: Latin Party

Read "Latin Party" reviewed by Jeff Dayton-Johnson

by Jeff Dayton-Johnson

The redoubtable Putumayo programmers have already released ¡Baila! A Latin Dance Mix (2006), ¡Salsa! (2009) and Afro-Latin Party (2005), as well as nationally-themed but party-ready collections from Brazil, Colombia, Cuba, the Dominican Republic, Puerto Rico and the Caribbean. Are they perhaps scraping the bottom of the Latin party barrel with Latin Party? Ah, that would be ...

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Various Artists: Cuban Funk Experience

Read "Cuban Funk Experience" reviewed by Jeff Dayton-Johnson

by Jeff Dayton-Johnson

UK mixologist John Armstrong has compiled a collection of “Cuban funk" recordings from the coffers of two record labels: Havana's Egrem and Miami's Sound Triangle, between 1973 and 1988. Like Típica '73's Johnny “Dandy" Rodríguez did back in the 1970s, Armstrong is arguing that Cuban music in the US and in Cuba are two branches of ...

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Africa: 50 Years of Music - 50 Years of Independence

Read "Africa: 50 Years of Music - 50 Years of Independence" reviewed by Chris May

by Chris May

Various ArtistsAfrica: 50 Years of Music: 50 Years of IndependenceSterns2010 “In my country alone, there are 80 ethnic groups and 200 dialects," says the Cameroonian saxophonist Manu Dibango in an interview in the booklet enclosed with this box set. “So it's hard to talk about Cameroonian music ...


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