New Music CDs

Altan's best is featured on this 14-track compilation album that includes beautiful Celtic tunes like Ten Thousand Miles and Stor, A Stor, A Ghra.

The final album from the late flamenco maesto.

Already acclaimed in his native Brazil, the solo debut for Rodrigo Amarante (Little Joy, Los Hermanos) marks the launch of new label Easy Sound Recording Co.

The recording of Del Río's small conjunto ensemble was made in June 2000 at the famed Estudios Abdala in the Miramar section of Havana. The tremendous document has been waiting for release until now.

Kasse Mady celebrates his position as one of Mali's greatest voices in distinguished company. The album is the third in a series born out of the friendship between the young Malian kora maestro Ballake Sissoko and the iconoclastic French cellist Vincent Segal. Like the other two albums in the series, it exemplifies a more intimate musical current that has been emerging in Bamako, one that's closer to the acoustic sound of tradition.

At the dawn of the new millennium, L Hijaz Car started to build its first golden bridges the kind that light up Istanbul nights, rounding up both East and West, sacred and secular. Until recently, they were known as the grand retinue of the majestic singer Houria Aichi. It took nearly a whole decade and hundreds of concerts around the world, for their first album to see the light of day!

Mor Karbasi burst onto the global world music scene in 2008 with the release of her first album, and has continued to capture audiences internationally with her gorgeous, exceptional voice. Mor is a young woman whose music is influenced by several cultures, though mainly by her Israeli/Jewish heritage, but also Persian, Moroccan, and Spanish. All of which is discernible in her outward appearance, but also in her lovely, effervescent music and many stories.

An Instrumental album that will appeal to a broad base of listeners including fans of rock, jazz and world music.

The biggest names in polka Jimmy Sturr, Myron Floren, Frankie Yankovic and the Six Fat Dutchmen play the biggest hits of polka. Here in volume two, the legends of polka play their hearts out in 20 all time favorite polkas from Apples, Peaches, Pumpkin Pie; to the Tennessee Waltz.

Seun Kuti, the reigning prince of Afrobeat and youngest child of Fela Kuti, goes full steam ahead with his own inimitable brand of music. It is a compelling mix of jazz, funk, soul, and African rhythms.

"4 out of 5...well presented box set puts a fresh spin on it..." - Songlines

The ancient polyphonic vocal music of Lithuania is arranged using a variety of ensembles to create an entirely new musical world filled with charming, infectious grooves and imaginative arrangements.

With great success of the first volume, it deemed necessary to produce more of the same great material that presents enticing Native American chants backed by electronic beats and other modern instruments.

Alsarah, is a Sudanese born singer, songwriter and ethnomusicologist. Born in the capital city of Khartoum, where she spent the first 8 years of her life, she relocated to Taez, Yemen with her family to escape the ever stifling regime in her native country. Now residing in Brooklyn, NY, she is a self-proclaimed practitioner of East-African retro-pop.

“Tche Belew” is Hailu Mergia and the Walias’ 1977 instrumental jazz and groove recording set against the backdrop of post-revolution Ethiopia. “Tche Belew” was a groundbreaking recording and the LP became collectible for so many reasons but overall it is just an astounding merger of Ethiopian songs, elegant contemporary arrangements and “western” instrumentation. Completely sublime music from one of the seminal bands of a funk-laced era of Ethiojazz and soul.

Traditional Maori waiata (songs) twisted with a dash of world beats with the powerful rich message of listening to the wisdom from our ancestors to pass on to future generations.

On her third for Chesky Records, Xiomara Laugart steps up to the plate with her own distinctive style to interpret some Cuban classics from the golden era of the 1920s.

Two of the biggest names in world music join forces for a set of unaccompanied kora duets. The repertoire is based on a combination of obscure, almost forgotten kora pieces and a new look at some Mande classics from Mali.

Produced and recorded across an appropriately dizzying array of locations and social contexts (New York City, Dakar, Nouakchott) the album is a contemporary articulation of Moorish griot music from Mauritania, an art form that has been evolving and gaining momentum for centuries, as voiced by Noura Mint Seymali, an artist profoundly steeped in its history and rigorously devoted to its global resonance.

Fei Scho present their unique alpine world music from Bavaria, based on clear Bavarian roots with beautiful and always surprising melodies that leave the listener with a smile.

Oud player, Necati, has gained recognition over the years because of his extraordinary talent. Featured on this album is a compilation of classical Turkish music rendered for the oud. Over 70 minutes of oud music from a master of the instrument.

A collection of soothing, hypnotic music from World Music artists the world over that will relax and make the body pulsate to the exotic rhythms. This down tempo compilation is perfect for dinner parties, dancing, and finding inner zen peace.