New Music CDs

Shahrul Anuar bin Zain is a Malaysian singer and a multi award-winning artist. He has released five albums; this is his latest album, released in 2016.

The second offering from Cretan lutist George Xylouris and Dirty Three drummer Jim White is a mirror image of their debut, 2014's Goats. The earlier album, almost entirely comprising instrumental tunes, referenced tradition as a vehicle for improvisation. Filled with passionate vocal numbers, Black Peak fully incorporates folk tradition within it, extending the folkloric line from antiquity.

2017 Grammy Nominee for Best Regional Roots Music Album. This set is a brilliant showcase of Ancelet’s thought-provoking poetry and Broussard’s genius arrangements. Only three tracks feature guest musicians. Broussard played everything else: acoustic, electric and lap steel guitars, fiddles, bass, harmonicas, flutes, saxes and programmed percussion all recorded in his home studio.

Soundway Records present a compilation of rare and mostly unavailable tracks from the slick and sassy world of Nigerian pop music and club culture of the early 1980s.

From Danza Fuego comes this exciting album of flamenco music. The nineteen fast, furious, and hot tracks laden with astounding guitar fireworks brilliantly display this beloved Spanish artform.

A twenty track album by Ensemble Marani that includes songs such as Alilo; Lale; Satchidao; and more.

Songs in French, Greek, English, Macedonian, and KiSwahili with varied instruments. 3 Mustaphas 3 released 10 albums between 1985 and 2001.

Grammy nominee and women's rights speaker Radmilla Cody brings her worldview to a new album featuring thirteen new songs including Kinship Honor; Mother's World; and Walking Through Life.

This new release features a wide and varied collection of Klezmer music, gathered from across the Americas and Europe. These songs represent a kaleidoscope of styles and instrumentations, from ethnic to jazzy and everything in between.

A sixteen track album from the group Colalaila that includes songs such as Old Rumanski and Sher; Shalom Alejchem; Odessa Tanz; and more.

Nearly a century ago, the last 36 residents were evacuated from the most remote part of the British Isles, St Kilda, an isolated island off the western coast of Scotland. Now, after 86 years, the music of St Kilda has been discovered and recorded in a Scottish care home by an elderly resident who was taught piano by a resident of St Kilda. Heard by the outside world for the first time, these haunting melodies offer a last link to the so-called 'Island on the Edge ofthe World'.

Using Hindu philosophy's concept of Maya, the irresistible veil behind which the world conceals the real character of spiritual reality, Ghosh presents an ode to the beauty of this illusion, celebrating the life of Ravi Shankar and his legacy of peace through music.

Latin music superstar Juanes releases a brand new album, which comes three years after the release of Loco de Amor. The album includes the hit singles Fuego and Hermosa Ingrata.

This 2 disc release combines the best of the best. Songs of this release are from countries such as Ireland, Colombia, Russia, Madagascar, Corsica, Zimbabwe, Austria, Brazil and many many more. Listen to the relaxed and blissful music and begin dreaming. Sung in various languages.

Following her international debut, Desfado, charismatic fado singer Ana Moura returns. The album contains traditional fado as well as new pieces by a number of major names in Portuguese music, including Carlos Te, Samuel Uria, and Jorge Cruz among others.

The second Yorkston/Thorne/Khan album represents a confluence of currents, among them, the north Indian sarangi; jazz-tinged bass, reminiscent in places of Danny Thompson; acoustic guitar that owes a debt to Elizabeth Cotton, Dick Gaughan, and Mississippi John Hurt; and three very different vocalists.

With a lineup of artists like Ana Moura, Mariza, Carminho, and Cristina Branco, these ladies beautifully portray a musical tradition, which is now listed as an Intangible Cultural Heritage of Humanity by UNESCO. This is a tribute to the new divas of Portuguese songs.

The album is the sophomore release from four-time Juno Award winner, two-time Grammy Award nominee and Officer of the Order of Canada, soprano saxophonist/flautist Jane Burnnett and Maqueque.

Fezophone presents two mini albums on one CD. The first dates from 1984, recorded in an empty swimming pool, and the second was recorded for John Peel's 'Radio 1' show.

Les Amazones d'Afrique is an all-star female collective of West African musicians featuring Angelique Kidjo, Mamani Keita, Mariam Doumbia, and more united in a common cause of freedom and equal rights for women.

Rough Guides presents a classic retro album full of hidden gems and never-heard before jams in a collection filled with sought-after and rare tracks from one of South America's best kept musical secrets.

Almost eradicated during the time of the Khmer Rouge, the psychedelic music of Cambodia lives on as cherished treasures of a lost past. This set celebrates the mind bending music from the 1960s and 1970s.

Four years after their popular debut album, Os Argonautas present their second release. The album features twelve songs including ten original compositions plus interpretations of Dirty Summer by Piero Ciampi and Disseram Que Eu voltei Americanizada, which was expressly composed for Carmen Miranda.

Yann-Fanch Kemener and Renat Sette deliver a very physical performance that is filled with voices, reeds, hammered stones, and stomping feet.

On her third album, nomadic singer Flavia Coelho transforms loss, suffering, and failure into strength and urges listeners to see beyond privileges, comforts, and certainties.

This album includes the following traditional instruments, Santur (dulcimer), oud (lute), setar (four stringed lute), tar (six stringed), nay (reed flute), daf (fram drum), and tonbak (goblet shaped drum).

Baeshi Bang presents an original and modern interpretation of songs by Bae Ho, a famous Korean singer from the sixties.

The three-day music festival that proceeded the Heavyweight Championship fight between Mohammad Ali and George Foreman in 1974 in Kinshasa, Zaire brought together many of America's greatest musicians performing on stage with the greatest African musicians of the time. This release features never before heard recordings from this historic event.