VARIOUS: WORLD, CLASSICAL, SPOKEN WORD ETC.
In this particular section of our online store you'll find CDs and LP's in various genres, mostly non-related to Western pop, rock, folk or jazz. To begin with we have lots of WORLD MUSIC. Expect TRULY AMAZING SOUNDS, old and new, brought to you from ASIA and AFRICA, EASTERN-EUROPE and LATIN AMERICA, and even the ARCTICS. And here you'll also find music from CLASSICAL COMPOSERS, including the HOUSEHOLD NAMES from centuries ago, but also MODERNISTS. And last, but surely not least, we also have CDs and LP's featuring the SPOKEN WORD, on -almost- any subject one can possibly imagine. Or in other words, NEVER A DULL MOMENT! Enjoy!
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ABU-JAMAL, MUMIA - 175 PROGRESS DRIVESpoken word album featuring rare interviews by and with journalist and over 20 years Pennsylvania death row resident MUMIA ABU-JAMAL. Banned, censored and held in solitary confinement for over a decade and with a death sentence looming continues to speak from death row. ... read more » |
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ABU-JAMAL, MUMIA - ALL THINGS CENSORED, VOL. 1ALL THINGS CENSORED VOL. 1 is a collection of Mumia Abu-Jamal's commentaries about racism, the death penalty, life on death row, the privations of the prison system and the corporate control of the media, among other issues. |
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ACADEMY OF MAQAM - INVISIBLE FACE OF THE BELOVED (+DVDFull title: "Music of Central Asia, Vol. 2: Invisible Face of the Beloved: Classical Music of the Tajiks and Uzbeks". Amid the mosques and minarets of Samarkand and Bukhara, generations of vocalists set the mystical, Sufi-inspired verse of Hafiz and other ... read more » |
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ADDY, MUSTAPHA TETTEY - MASTER DRUMMER OF GHANAOf all the musical giants to emerge from West Africa in the last twenty-five years, few have equaled the stature of the great Mustapha Tettey Addy, master Ga drummer from Ghana. Addy was born in the traditional Ga area of Ghana in 1942 into a large family of famous drummers ... read more » |
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AFRICANDO - MARTINAAfricando's sixth studio album, continues the group's unique take on African and classic Cuban styles. The album is a tribute to the eternal African woman and it's a potent hommage that churns up the African-Latin musical waters quite a bit. Ismael Lo's "Lote Lo" ... read more » |
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AFROCUBISM - AFROCUBISM (2LP)Impressing the world with their mix of Cuban and African music. |
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AL, ABOUD ABDEL - BEST OF MODERN ARABIAN BELLYDANCELebanese bellydance album. |
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ALAMAAILMAN VASARAT - HUURO KOLKKOA Finnish explorer from the early 1900's, Huuro Kolkko was never recognized by his fellow scientists but nevertheless rambled many continents on his own. During his travels, he made extensive studies of local cultures, drew maps of areas never visited by man and collected ... read more » |
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ALAMAAILMAN VASARAT - KAARMELAUTAKUNTAThe "state-of-the-art" ethnic brass punk band continue with their eclectic style on the new album "Kaarmelautakunta". With the line-up expanded to two cellos and a new choice of winds, the Hammers conjure up another pallette of diverse compositions with ... read more » |
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ALAMAAILMAN VASARAT - MAAHANAlamaailman Vasarat ("The Hammers of the Underworld") is an unusual phenomenon not only in their home country Finland, but in the globe in general. Listeners have had problems cathegorizing this music but you probably will see something like "ethnic brass ... read more » |
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ALAMAAILMAN VASARAT - VALTAVALTA ("Power") is a visual experience filled with vivid imaginary; every song resembles a short movie. Musical styles vary from Nu Orleans street baroque to Balkan traffic jams, limping through odd-time kebop and creepy circus acts all the way to wall-crumbling ... read more » |
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ALAMAAILMAN VASARAT - VASARAASIAAlamaailman Vasarat ("Hammers of the Underworld") is a Finnish group playing horny and punky "secret agent brass music" with acoustic and distorted cellos, pump organs and plenty of tasty woodwinds and shiny brass. Sometimes categorized as ... read more » |
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ALAMAAILMAN VASARAT & TUOMARI NURMIO - KINAPORIN KALIFAATTIPolka rhythms, exotic marches, Russian folksongs played on tuba, saxophone, guitars,accordion with drums and percussion. All kinds of moods. Tuomari Nurmio meets Alamaailman Vasarat. So whats the combination like then? Kebab-kosher-jazz-film-traffic-punk (?!) may be the ... read more » |
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ALKAN, C.V. - SYMPHONY FOR SOLO PIANO |
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ALKUWAITY, DAOUD & SALEH - MASTERS OF IRAQI MUSIC: ORIGINAL......Recordings". Exotic tunes by a superb Iraqi duo. |
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ALLAMI, KHYAM - RESONANCE/DISSONANCE (+DVD)Allami's debut solo oud album, 'Resonance/Dissonance' (released on his own label Nawa Recordings), is a rare and ambitious effort. It is a double-disc featuring a solo studio recording on the CD and a live performance of the entire album on the DVD. Musically, it is based ... read more » |
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AMADOU & MARIAM - FOLILA (+CD)LP (with CD-version) from the Malian duo. Features guests Tunde and Kyp (TV ON THE RADIO), SANTIGOLD, AMP FIDDLER, ABDALLAH OUMBADOUGOU, and TOUMANI DIABATE. |
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AMAMPONDO - AFRICAN CLASSICS: AMAMPONDOOne of both Nelson Mandela and Desmond Tutu's favourite bands. This ultimate collection features some of their finest and most acclaimed works to date. |
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AMAZONES DE GUINEE, LES - WAMATO'Les Amazones De Guinee' were originally 'L'Orchestre Feminin de la Gendarmerie de Guinee' and as such were all serving officers and soldiers of the Guinean militia. They still are. Between their 2nd album Au Coeur de Paris and Wamato is cool 30 years but things move slowly ... read more » |
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AMONKAR, KISHORI - SAMPRADAYA, VOL. 1'A Tribute To Smt. Mogubai Kurdikar'. First of 2 DVDs. Singer Kishori Amonkar live at Kensington Town Hall, London, April 2000. |
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AMONKAR, KISHORI - SAMPRADAYA, VOL. 2'A Tribute To Smt. Mogubai Kurdikar'. Second of 2 DVDs. Singer Kishori Amonkar live at Kensington Town Hall, London, April 2000. |
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AMSTERDAM KLEZMER BAND - ZARAZAA flawless roundup of exellent energetic and natural played Balkan styles. |
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ANDERSEN, LALE - ERZAHLT MARCHEN VON H.C. ANDERSENThe first audiobook at Sireena Records! The famous chanteuese LALE ANDERSEN ("Lili Marleen"), entered a studio in Hamburg in the mid of the sixties and recorded 6 fairy-tales of her namesake Hans-Christian Andersen. With these recordings she followed the wish of ... read more » |
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ANGELOU, MAYA - MISS CALYPSORerelease. Very much in line with Harry Belafonte's recordings of this period, and no doubt made with the same lightly subversive civil rights agenda, the album features sparse backing from guitarist Tommy Tedesco ( Top L.A. session musician of the '50s and '60s, best known ... read more » |
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APERGHIS - MACHINATIONS |
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