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Various Artists – Folk Music Of Albania

2019-10-31T10:03:03+00:00

Albania's turbulent past, with its patchwork history of occupation, has produced a traditional rural music of remarkable variety as well as great beauty. Unaccompanied heroic ballads, funeral laments and political and lyrical songs are interspersed with dance-tunes on various lutes, flutes and [...]

Various Artists – Folk Music Of Albania2019-10-31T10:03:03+00:00

Various Artists – Folk Music Of Bulgaria

2019-10-31T10:07:13+00:00

Lying between Europe and Asia, Bulgaria displays in its traditional music both the formal solidity of the West and the exotic colouring of the East. These recordings, mostly collected by A.L. Lloyd on trips in 1954 and 1963, are very diverse, including [...]

Various Artists – Folk Music Of Bulgaria2019-10-31T10:07:13+00:00

Various Artists – Folk Music Of Yugoslavia

2019-10-31T09:59:48+00:00

Visiting the Yugoslav republics of Croatia, Bosnia-Hercegovina, Serbia and Macedonia, the collector Wolf Dietrich recorded these fascinating vocal solos and duets and tunes played on bagpipes, fiddles, flutes and clarinets. The raw part-singing of amateur village performers is of particular beauty. Croatia [...]

Various Artists – Folk Music Of Yugoslavia2019-10-31T09:59:48+00:00

Various Artists – Folk Music Of Turkey

2019-10-31T09:54:12+00:00

The village music of Turkey, collected by Wolf Dietrich in the '60s and '70s, includes pastoral airs on flutes, festival music on davul (drum) and zurna (oboe) and songs intricately accompanied on the saz and cumbus lutes. There are also examples of [...]

Various Artists – Folk Music Of Turkey2019-10-31T09:54:12+00:00

Various Artists – Music of the Tatar People

2019-10-31T11:49:22+00:00

The music of the Tatar people of the Central Volga region of Russia is an important link, according to the collector Laszlo Vikar, in the vast east-west chain that connects the musics of China and Hungary. In these unique field recordings, made [...]

Various Artists – Music of the Tatar People2019-10-31T11:49:22+00:00

Various Artists – Gipsy Music from Macedonia & Neighbouring Countries

2019-10-31T10:16:08+00:00

'If davul and zurna are not present,' runs the Turkish proverb, 'I cannot be a bride.' The coupling of drum (davul) and double-reed pipe (zurna), heard in many regions of the world, is particularly widespread among the gipsies of the Balkans. Collector [...]

Various Artists – Gipsy Music from Macedonia & Neighbouring Countries2019-10-31T10:16:08+00:00

Zanzibar: Music of Celebration

2019-11-05T14:11:35+00:00

Taarab is the most common style of music performed at weddings on the island of Zanzibar - a unique blend of musical elements from the Middle East, India and the West, combined with, to varying degrees, local African musical practices. It is [...]

Zanzibar: Music of Celebration2019-11-05T14:11:35+00:00

Healing, Feasting & Magical Ritual: Papua New Guinea

2019-10-29T09:09:44+00:00

Songs and dances of hunting, war, work, totemistic ritual, cannibalism, myth, initiation, courtship, rain-making, funerals, magical healing, shark catching and marathon feasting, recorded in remote coastal and inland villages in five far-flung regions of Papua New Guinea, to the north of Australia. [...]

Healing, Feasting & Magical Ritual: Papua New Guinea2019-10-29T09:09:44+00:00

The Moken: Sea Gypsies of the Andaman Sea

2019-11-13T09:45:37+00:00

The Sea Gypsies of the Andaman Sea have been sailing up and down the west coast of the Malay Peninsula for hundreds of years. Traditionally living on their Kabang (self contained houseboats) and trading sea slugs, pearls, shells and bird's nests for [...]

The Moken: Sea Gypsies of the Andaman Sea2019-11-13T09:45:37+00:00

The Yemen Tihama: Trance & Dance Music from the Red Sea Coast

2021-01-15T10:18:05+00:00

The ferocious heat on Tihama, the Red sea coastal plain of Yemen, is matched in its intensity by the tibbal music, an Afro-Arabian amalgam that features lyres, reeds and, particularly, virtuoso drumming. Its practitioners are largely drawn from the akhdam, an outcast [...]

The Yemen Tihama: Trance & Dance Music from the Red Sea Coast2021-01-15T10:18:05+00:00

Drumming & Chanting in God’s Own Country: Temple Music of Kerala

2019-11-13T14:34:03+00:00

Cut off from the rest of the Indian mainland by the expansive Western Ghats mountain range, and open to the influences of the Arabian Sea via its 1000km coastline, the culture of the tiny Indian state of Kerala in the very south [...]

Drumming & Chanting in God’s Own Country: Temple Music of Kerala2019-11-13T14:34:03+00:00

Martin Carthy – A Collection

2019-11-08T09:26:34+00:00

Drawn from Martin's first six albums (TSCD340-345) this specially priced collection is the perfect introduction to this unique figure and his early recording career. 1  The Trees They Do Grow High 2  Lord Franklin 3  The Bloody Gardener 4  Poor Murdered Woman [...]

Martin Carthy – A Collection2019-11-08T09:26:34+00:00
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