New Music CDs

The powerful followup to Western Saharan musician/activist/refugee Aziza Brahim's widely acclaimed album Soutak.

Rabbi Andrew Hahn, Ph.D combines a variety of tools, including Kirtan music, to introduce Jewish Wisdom to an increasingly global, spiritual village. Kirtan (also known as Bhajan) is a form of chant developed in India to heighten participation, communal feeling and ecstatic communion with the divine. Its usual, distinguishing feature is a formula of singing based on call-and-response. The chant facilitator offers something and then the participants return the favor.

Coming full circle, Idan Raichel goes back to basics on this new album. The international icon reflects on the cycles of life, human connections and starting anew.

Bajirao Mastani is a 2015 Indian epic historical romance film directed by Sanjay Leela Bhansali, who also composed the music of the film.

Delivering an intoxicating blend of Cuban music to a worldwide audience. This album is a mix of diverse styles ranging from son, timba, and nueva salsa to charanga and Afro-Cuban jazz.

Founded in 1996, Berlin band 17 Hippies has regularly toured in France over the last 15 years, and their affinity with the French music scene has been flourishing since Berlin Style. The new album is a collection of their songs in French, some featuring friends from such French bands as Les Hurlements d'Léo and Les Ogres de Barback.

The first solo album released by the former frontman of Mano Negra, Clandestino is an enchanting trip through Latin-flavored worldbeat rock, reliant on a potpourri of musical styles from traditional Latin and salsa to dub to rock & roll to French pop to experimental rock to techno.

These songs were recorded to honor the Independence Day of Mexico. The album includes great songs like, Cielo Rojo, El Mariachi Loca and La Bamba.

Unique collection that features the most complete musical presentation of the acclaimed trio. Features Sin Ti; Amor de la Calle; and Di Que No Es Verdad.

The Brooklyn-based Red Baraat expands their singular sound by merging North Indian bhangra rhythms, jazz, go-go, brass funk, and hip-hop, with new elements of South Asian Qawwali traditions, Cumbia grooves, electronic music, and more.

The meeting of two musicians, Viviane Arnoux, and Francois Michaud, who for over twenty years and eight albums have generously spread their music, freed from the arbitrary partitioning of genres, jazz, world music, electro, pop, musette. On this collaboration, they are joined by Norbert Lucarain.

An eight track album from Thiland's own Khun Narin that will include songs such as Phua Kao; Baisi Sukhwan; Chackim; and more.

The Island of Dr Electrico is the second album by The Bombay Royale released in 2014 following the success of 2012's debut You Me Bullets Love which was chosen as iTunes Breakthrough World Music Album for 2012.

Contains eight Kirtan, call-and-response, devotional chants.

Elisa Vellia and her harp present La femme qui marche, a fresh approach to Greek traditional music. From Asia Minor to the islands in the Aegean Sea, in the wake of oral tradition, all the songs seem tailor-made for her instrument. The ageless oral tradition has been handed down from mother to daughter from Asia Minor right through to modern-day Greece.

Manuel Hermia takes an intimate approach to music, fed equally by Indian ragas, Arabian maqams, and Asian cultures.

Sainkho Namtchylak is an experimental singer, born in 1957 in a secluded village in the south of Tuva. She has an exceptional voice, and is proficient in overtone singing. Her music encompasses avant jazz, electronica, modern composition and Tuvan folk music.

Featuring ancient Bulgarian folk instruments; a one-string bowed instrument; bagpipe; shepherd's whistle and the three-string gadulka.

Egyptian music literally flooded the region from the Gulf to the Atlantic Ocean, undergoing profound changes. It is this crucial historical period that we now rediscover through a collection of seventeen remastered titles featuring the greatest voices and the most influential musicians of the time.

Croatian. A dizzyingly psychedelic magnum-opus and a stunning debut, stitching together a seemingly disparate range of inspirations such as psychedelia, acid rock, baroque pop, Tropicalia, and Eastern ragas into an addictivel listenable whole.

Gypsy Kumbia Orchestra is a creative chaos that fuses Afro-Colombian percussions with the brass melodies of the Roma peoples of Eastern Europe. They dance, and they will make your body and your mind dance in overwhelmingly beautiful ways.

From the souped-up guitar of Mali's Anansy Cisse to modern Yiddish melodies with a modern twist from Mostly Kosher, this album represents artists at the very cutting edge of world music.

Baca journeys deeper into her own poetic history, with the moving works of Latin American and Spanish poets like Pablo Neruda, Cesar Vallejo, Cesar Calvo, Mario Benedetti, and Federico Garcia Lorca, lovingly placing their lyrics in understated arrangements of guitar, flute, violin and cajon.

A remarkable band out of Mexico City taking the Jewish tradition to some fresh and uncharted new places! Charanga, rock, norteno, cha cha, son, searing electronics, klezmer clarinet and driving rock beats are never out of place in their dynamic mix.

Sultans of String serve up a smorgasbord of ragas, reels, and rumbas on a special collaborative release that includes sitar master Anwar Khurshid. It is a celebration of musical fusion and human creativity.

Benefitting the band's reputation as innovators, this album is more organic, potent yet subtle, and highly danceable, exuding the breezy vibe of their Afro-Caribbean roots.

Reissue of the 1972 recording by the master of 'Musica Popular Brasileira.' It was one of his first acts after returning from a period of political exile in the UK, featuring a track written with the help of the poet Gregorio De Mattos ('Triste Bahia') plus six more mostly sung in English.

Lakou Mizik's songs, some of which are topical, draw on the rhythms and incantations of voodoo, the trumpeting of rara carnival music and hearty call and response vocal harmonies on their way to galloping, exultant dance grooves.

A two disc collection of primal and unhinged Greek village music that at times sounds more like free jazz or doom folk, feral and trance like as it is.