The Rough Guide To Arabic Lounge

Various
(Rough Guide, RGNET1230)

Welcome to the Arabic lounge groove where the hot and dry rhythms of the desert meet the cooling and refreshing melodies of the oasis. With oud and kanoon, with sampler and soul, join the all night celebration from Cairo to Casablanca.


2xCD Special Edition - Featuring a bonus CD by Akim El Sikameya

 

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The Rough Guide To World Music For Children

Various
(Rough Guide, RGNET1236)

Welcome to a world of joyous upbeat sounds that children love, carefully selected from across the planet. Celebrate unity in cultural diversity with gypsy grooves, madcap mambo and the carnival rhythms of Brazilian samba.

2xCD Special Edition - Featuring a bonus Dance The World CD

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Tarkat Tajje/Let’s Go!

Etran Finatawa
(Riverboat, TUG1055)

Etran Finatawa’s hypnotic musical groove evokes the breathless heat and shimmering horizon of the Sahara. With laid back guitars, driving rhythms and compelling voices, Tarkat Tajje/Let’s Go! invites you to accompany this dynamic band of Wodaabe and Touareg nomads on their evolving musical journey.

 

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The Rough Guide To Afrobeat Revolution

Various
(Rough Guide, RGNET1222)

Afrobeat Revolution takes Fela’s intoxicating cocktail of Nigerian highlife and James Brown swagger and blends it with the new generation of African revolutionary sounds, leaving you shaken by the rhythm and stirred by the message.


2xCD Special Edition - Featuring a bonus source CD by Kaleta & Zozo Afrobeat

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Le Marigot Club Dakar

Daby Balde
(Riverboat, TUG1052)

Celebrated for his talents in West Africa, Daby Balde returns with more smoothly hypnotic sounds and gently lilting rhythms. Inspired by the music he regularly performs in Le Marigot, his popular Dakar club, this album showcases his stunning compositions based in the Fula traditions from the south of Senegal, incorporating the sumptuous sounds of the West African kora, balafon and acoustic guitar.

 

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The Rough Guide To Brazilian Lounge

Various
(Rough Guide, RGNET1227)

Welcome to the freewheeling Brazilian Lounge groove where beautiful acoustic bossa nova meets electronic ingenuity, and where Brazilian roots music is transformed in the club scenes of the USA and Europe.

2xCD Special Edition - Featuring a bonus source CD by Axial

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Songhai Blues: Homage To Ali Farka Touré

Samba Touré
(Riverboat, TUG1054)

Malian bluesman Samba Touré is a protégé of the legendary Ali Farka Touré. Touring with Farka Touré, Samba was profoundly influenced and began creating his own style of Songhai Blues. Bursting with energy, this is Samba’s tribute to his mentor and the continuation of a desert blues legacy.

 

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O Shakuntala!

Debashish Bhattacharya
(Riverboat, TUG1053)

With a Grammy nomination and BBC World Music Award under his belt, Indian slide guitarist Pandit (master) Debashish Bhattacharya’s remarkable virtuosity is winning international critical acclaim. O Shakuntala! is a sublime interpretation of the immortal Indian masterpiece of eternal love and features the chaturangui, the first slide guitar designed and developed by Debashish himself. A musical adventure fusing two great Indian musical traditions – Karnatic music from the south and Hindustani music from the north – it celebrates love in all its many wonderful rasas (emotions).

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