New Music CDs

The follow up to Naná's incredible 'Sinfonia & Batuques' album and this new offering breaks many boundaries and reveals Brazil's most revered percussionist in his best form yet.

Malika Zarra creates an album that is rich in rhythm, melody, and culture. The sensual, multilingual, and sophisticated singer waves North African influences with New York-style jazz into a luxurious sound that showcases her seductive voice and imaginative lyrics.

Following the strong discography that already exists, this brings all of the best together in one release. This music takes listeners on a musical journey through time in Scotland, from the Pride of Murray Pipe Band who was formed in 1952 to the first Battalion Scots Guards who were deployed in Afghanistan recently. Individual members of these ensembles have peformed throughout the world such as Hong Kong, the Middle East, all over Europe and even South America.

Includes the songs Barturana; Tutana Kuraip; Desi; and more.

Fito & Fitipaldis are a Spanish rock band, formed in 1998. It was created by Fito Cabrales with the intention of publishing songs which were not in the style of his other band, Platero y Tú. Its style is a mix of rock, soul, and swing,

Recorded in Malawi, The Zomba Prison Project follow up their Grammy Award nominated debut with a second powerful album that brings international attention to the injustices in the prison system.

Ensemble Mare Balticum performs songs improvised on Viking instruments, as well as noted songs from the earliest centuries of Christianity in Scandinavia.

The album features eleven tracks recorded in Havana, Colombia, Puerto Rico, and Miami. The entire album is driven by Afro-Cuban tradition, tempos, and grooves. The result is a stylish, soulful homage to the classic salsa sound and repertoire, fused with Diego's electrifying flamenco style.

Portland, Oregon's globe-trotting Pink Martini returns with fourteen new songs that include the band's first foray into Armenian and Xhosa. It also features a guest appearance from Rufus Wainwright.

Transcendent music sung in the Haida language, bridging the ancient and the present, by Canadian Aboriginal Music Award winners Terri-Lynn Williams-Davidson and Bruce Ruddell.

Mixing rock with Jewish folk, the group treads on new boundaries of music.

Amalia Rodrigues was a Portuguese singer and actress who is best known as the Queen of Fado for popularizing the music genre. Credited with having written the rulebook on what Fado can and cannot be and how a female singer should perform it. For all interested in the genre, none can learn from a better teacher than Rodrigues.

Tanya Tagaq follows up her 2014 album Animism with an even more musically aggressive, more aggressively political, more challenging, more spine-tingling, and more powerful masterpiece.

Egyptian master percussionist Hossam Ramzy presents this album of Egyptian rhythmic dance. The first part of the album explains the Egyptian dance rhythms, and gives examples of each, such as the Masmoudi, Maqsoum, and Saaidi. From track 25 on, Hossam presents a drumming workshop. He explains the drums, which include the table, darabuka, mazhar, and duf, then plays simple examples as well as how the drums fit into a full percussion section.

Les Triaboliques are full of musical surprises on a breathtaking musical collaboration that seamlessly brings together a wide array of global styles.

From bright Nigerian highlife horns to Ethiopan fuzz-tone guitar riffs, this Rough Guide presents a broad selection of rare African dance grooves.

Another treasure chest of golden nuggets puts the spotlight on obscure, funky, tropical dance music. Glittering delights range from Ray Perez's Venezuelan combo Los Kenya to the retro-funk sounds of The New Mastersounds.

Wardruna is a musical project based on Nordic spiritualism and the runes of the Elder Futhark. It was started by Einar "Kvitrafn" Selvik in 2003, along with Gaahl and Lindy Fay Hella.

What if Marco Polo had owned an MP3 player? The Silk Road: A Musical Caravan offers a glimpse of the rich musical landscape that the curious explorer might find if he traveled the lands of the Silk Road today.

Soundway's second foray into South East Asia is focused on North-East Thailand, the epicenter of Molam and Luk Thung Isan music. Hypnotic phin and khaen riffs, pulsing, electrified country rhythms and heartfelt vocals punctuate another journey into the lesser known reaches of 1970s Thai music.

The new songs are exciting, as well as the traditional tangos, which build the base for the solos of every band member.

The ancient Indo-European civilization of Thrace was adventurous, inquisitive and open to exchange with other cultures. These key principles of the Thracians serve as a beautiful metaphor for this ensemble featuring cellist Jean-Guihen Queyras.

Urban Dervish is the new album from Oojami. with an uncompromising attitude towards musical freedom of expression, it is as fresh as the earliest days of punk, with the party feel mixed with jazzy worldwide flavors. on this album Oojami fuses Turkish elements with a myriad of cultural traditions, providing a whirling dervish cyclone of sounds with layers of attitude.