New Music CDs

Explores the dramatic qualities of popular songs from Latin America and the Mediterranean, as Adrienne Winling's warm, deep voice interacts thrillingly with the bold, sensitive accordion of Antoine Girard. With this album, the duo brings to life moving tales of ordinary men and women faced with joy, love, grief, and jealousy. These unique songs, carried by the fascinating minimalism of voice and accordion, weave a picture of the human experience, fragile, yet vibrant.

Estampie is a German music group, founded in 1985 by Sigrid Hausen, Michael Popp and Ernst Schwindl. The band plays primarily medieval music, with some modern influences from world and minimalist music.

The album comes from a darker place, with swamp guitar, harp, dub beats and a pounding rhythm section weaving a dystopian soundscape that evokes raging emotions under its crystalline surface. Includes bonus disc with English interpretations of the Welsh songs.

Led by Tatul Altunyan, the group Armenia gave performances until the 1980s. As its name suggests, it was devoted essentially to the performance of Armenian folk songs and dances, but also to popular songs in the Armenian language written by living composers. The group is remembered as a perfect illustration of the beauty of traditional Armenian music.

Chin Na Na Poun combines the sound of brass instruments with the passion of one of Marseilles's major poets, Victor Gelu. The band pays homage to a wide range of artists with an exhilarating combination of aesthetic styles while remaining faithful to the spirit of each song.

New album by Moroccan singer Jannat.

Useful for fans that have never purchased any of the band's records, highlights and tracks from their debut albums are included along with ignored follow-ups.

Deeply rooted in the English folk dance tradition, they merge a joyous, uplifting cacophony of sound with a slightly sinister, distorted collision of music hall, Lotte Lenya, Robert Wyatt and pure theatre.

Mughamat (plural of Mugham) is the classical heritage of Azerbaijani traditional musical culture. This CD collects some of the pearls of the Mugham repertoire-beautiful lyrical pieces highly popular with Azerbaijani listeners. Their selection shows the diversity of melodic forms, musical instruments and types of music ensembles practicing the art of Mugham.

After the critical and commercial success of their first album, this progressive Portuguese ensemble continues their groundbreaking musical journey with their second album, which has already hit the top of the Portuguese Pop and Traditional charts.

The Rassegna ensemble leads a musical journey throughout the Mediterranean, with eight singers and musicians hailing from Greece, Spain, Algeria, France, Italy, and Corsica, each of whom contributes his or her own repertoire, knowledge, and specific language.

The debut solo album of the Norwegian hardanger fiddle player is a selection of her own compositions. The songs are rooted in the traditional Norwegian hardanger fiddle style, but unique and timeless in sound and expression. The music of is a travel into an unknown world, a world of ancient wisdom, emotions and colors, closely connected to the nature of Norwegian mountain landscapes, valleys and streams.

17 Hippies combine such elements as Balkan music, American rock, British pop, and film music with plenty of energy and razor-sharp interplay.

A Ukrainian, two Hungarians, an American, an Australian and five Germans mix ska, reggae, dancehall and cumbia sounds with klezmer, Berlin's own in-your-face brand of hip-hop, eastern European turbo polka, Mediterranean melodies and rock riffs. Russian, Hungarian, German and English lyrics tell of life in Berlin and the adventures of immigrants in the city.

"An enchanting album from the 70-something-year-old bundle of energy, this mixes the Brazilian Amazon sound with brass, jangley indie guitars, rap, samba and psychedelia." - Songlines

A-Wa is three sisters whose sweeping and uncompromising creation will take listeners on an exciting journey. Not far from the Egyptian border, A-Wa comes from Israel, and fuses Yemenite music with jazz, R&B, hip-hop, and more.

It is Hoku Zuttermeister's second album release and features many songs that are near and dear to his heart. Growing up in a family filled with rich hula traditions, Hoku wanted to share some of his favorite hula mele as well as other songs that he learned through the years.

The music and poetry of numerous persecuted and exiled minority cultures flourished throughout the Mediterranean and South America during the seventeenth century, the sensitivities of these displaced communities retaining powerful resonance today. These ancient narratives on beauty, love, joy and sorrow are expressed through Yaniv d'Or's haunting voice against a 'folk-Baroque' instrumental backdrop that reinvents enchanting and distinctive musical worlds.

This new release is inspired by legends and myths of women from across the globe. This is a tribute to all women and to femininity, because their lives are reflected in those of the protagonists and, through that, they become part of the legend themselves.

Second album from Ballaké Sissoko & Vincent Segal, the follow-up to the hugely successful Chamber Music, which was featured on several NPR programs including Tiny Desk.

Fifth House Ensemble, together with the Mediterranean folk band Baladino, presents this new release with works by Dan Visconti. This is a world-premiere album, featuring eleven new compositions. The title is Hebrew for wanderings. Elements of Indian raga, US folk melodies, and Middle Eastern harmonies are found in these tracks, expressing the composer's global perspective.

Mokoomba hails from Chinotimba Township in the tourist border town of Victoria Falls. The band has been playing together since 2002, when the members were teenagers attending Mosi-Oa-Tunya High. Their music incorporates rap, ska, soukous and Afro-Cuban tunes with their own traditional music.

Disco, Bollywood-style is typically high-voltage: metallic flares, dazzling over-sized mirror-balls, smoke machines galore and Technicolor flashing dance floors. Let loose those dancing shoes and boogie down to Bollywood's glittering disco heyday with Lata Mangeshkar, Mohammed Rafi, Kishore Kumar and more.

India's classical music is deeply bound to the country's ancient mystical traditions. This unique collection brings together the greatest names in Indian classical music including Ravi Shankar, Shivkumar Sharma, and Zakir Hussain.

Palestine is a beautiful ancient land of faith where conflict appears to overshadow its creative voices. This unique Rough Guide explores the diverse and wonderful array of music that springs out of adversity and expresses the deep roots of Palestinian identity.

The Kithara ensemble features qanun master Rajab Suleiman, brilliant singer Saada Nassor, the prestigious Makame Faki, and more, many of them former members of Zanzibar's famous Culture Musical Club. Violin, oud lute, darbuka, nay flute, and more blend marine indolence and continental frenzy.