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BABA COMMANDANT & THE MANDINGO BAND - SIRI BA KELEThe second LP from Baba Commandant & The Mandingo Band offers a potent mix of traditional and modern Burkinabe funk with a reverent take on the iconic Mandingue guitar music of the 1970's. Mamadou Sanou (Baba Commandant) leads the band with a confidence earned from ... read more » |
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BHATTACHARYA, DEBEN - PARIS TO CALCUTTA (4CD+BK)'MEN AND MUSIC ON THE DESERT ROAD' - With this wonderful FOUR-DISC SET of recorded song and dance, one can relive the journey that field recordist, poet, filmmaker, musicologist and ethnomusicologist Deben Bhattacharya made along the Desert Road from Europe into India in ... read more » |
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DUVELLE, CHARLES -& HISHAM MAYET- - THE PHOTOGRAPHS OF CHARLES DUVELLE (+2CD)Sublime Frequencies' most ambitious project to date, this 296-page fine-art photography book comprises an exhaustive collection of Charles Duvelle's field photography from 1959 to 1978, demonstrating that this master musicologist had an equally unerring eye for photography. ... read more » |
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GROUP BOMBINO - GUITARS FROM AGADEZ, VOL. 2This is the latest salvo from the Agadez music scene. Led by the guitar virtuoso OMARA MOCHTAR (Bombino), the group's debut album, and vol.2 in the 'Guitars From Agadez' series, represents the latest chapter in the modern sound of the Tuareg revolution. As of 2008, the ... read more » |
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GROUP INERANE - GUITARS FROM AGADEZ, VOL. 1This is the now-sound of the Tuareg guitar revolution sweeping across the Sahara Desert & inspired by the rebel musicians that started this music as a political weapon used to communicate from the Libyan refugee camps in the 80s & 90s. Spearheaded by the enigmatic ... read more » |
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GROUP INERANE - GUITARS FROM AGADEZ, VOL. 3CD reissue of the instantly sold out LP from the Nigerian Tuareg guitar scorchers. Sensational sounds! |
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HAYVANLAR ALEMI - GUARANA SUPERPOWERHailing from the Turkish capital of Ankara, Hayvanlar Alemi is a group of contemporary players steeped in the art of psychedelics, surf, and expansively rocking instrumental grandeur. Formed in 1999, the band is led by Ozum Itez (electric guitar) and Isik Sarihan ... read more » |
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MARTINE, TUCKER - BROKENHEARTED DRAGONFLIES'INSECT ELECTRONICA FROM SOUTHEAST ASIA'. LP edition of the original long out of print CD from 2004. One of the most stunning live insect recordings ever produced. |
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MAYET, HISHAM - THE DIVINE RIVERA wonderful film by Hisham Mayet entitled 'The Divine River: Ceremonial Pageantry In The Sahel'. Condensed from 40 hours of footage shot between 2007 and 2012, 'The Divine River' is an exhilarating, hallucinatory, harrowing record of music, ritual, life, and landscape along ... read more » |
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MILLIS, ROBERT - MY FRIEND RAIN (+CD)A gorgeous audio/visual experience from the humid tropic backdrops of Southeast Asia. DVD plus bonus soundtrack CD (12 tracks from Thailand, Laos, Myanmar, Cambodia) An abstract homage to the endless monsoon cycles of rebirth and destruction A film by Robert Millis (Climax ... read more » |
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MILLIS, ROBERT - THIS WORLD IS UNREAL LIKE A SNAKE IN A ROPEFolk cinema from the eternal never-ending collage that is INDIA. A journey through the ancient Southern Indian state of Tamil Nadu featuring Hindu trance ceremonies, street music, festivals, nagaswaram improvisations, impossibly loud cities, ancient temples, processions, ... read more » |
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OTHMAN, ADNAN - BERSHUKOR: A RETROSPECTIVE OF HITS... (2LP)...BY A MALAYSIAN POP YEH YEH LEGEND' - This DOUBLE-LP set contains 26 electrifying tracks from the legendary Malaysian musician who had his heyday in the late 1960s.. |
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SENYAWA - SUJUDSenyawa is the name of a contemporary duo originating from Jogjakarta, Indonesia. Rully Shabara's extreme vocals and Wukir Suryadi's deft instrumentals (and homemade instruments) produce one of the most profound examples of experimental via traditional music happening ... read more » |
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SOULEYMAN, OMAR - DABKE 2020'FOLK AND POP SOUNDS OF SYRIA'. The second volume of Northeast Syrian dabke music from this legendary vocalist. The trademark serpentine synthesizers, electrified bouzouki and driving rhythms forge a severe form of "new wave dabke" with a live energy and integrity ... read more » |
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SOULEYMAN, OMAR - HAFLAT GHARBIA: WESTERN CONCERTSAmazing live document from the master of Syrian dabke and regional Iraqi, Kurdish and Turkish styles. Omar Souleyman is a folk-pop singer from rural northeastern Syria. Like many Syrian musicians, he made his name as a singer for wedding parties in the region, with hundreds ... read more » |
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VARIOUS - BURKINA FASO, VOL. 1The first part of a three-volume set of contemporary field recordings by HISHAM MAYET, made in Burkina Faso during three expeditions in the years 2013-2015. Volume 1 highlights the sacred and secular music of the regional balafon or xylophone, an instrument revered by the ... read more » |
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VARIOUS - BURKINA FASO, VOL. 2The second part of a three-volume set of contemporary field recordings by HISHAM MAYET, made in Burkina Faso during three expeditions in the years 2013-2015. Volume 2 spotlights Mossi, Bissa, Bwaba, Fulani and Samo music. On Side 1, riveting string instruments such as the ... read more » |
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VARIOUS - BURKINA FASO, VOL. 3The third part of a three-volume set of contemporary field recordings by HISHAM MAYET, made in Burkina Faso during three expeditions in the years 2013-2015. Volume 3 includes regional instruments such as the Donso ngoni (hunters harp). The Donso hunters are a mystical ... read more » |
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VARIOUS - CAMBODIAN CASSETTE ARCHIVES, VOL. 1AVAILABLE AGAIN! - 'Khmer Folk & Pop Music Vol. 1'. The first ever vinyl edition of this beloved compilation, originally released on CD in 2004 and out of print since ages. An unbelievable collection of dynamic Cambodian music from the 1960s-1990s, recorded both in ... read more » |
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VARIOUS - CHOUBI CHOUBI! VOL. 2 (2LP)BACK IN PRINT! 'FOLK & POP SOUNDS FROM IRAQ'. Over 80 minutes of exotic music, recorded at weddings, parties and studios between 1970-2000. Double-LP edition with four additional tracks that weren't featured in the first CD issue. |
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VARIOUS - ECSTATIC MUSIC OF THE JEMAA EL FNAFor centuries, the Jemaa El Fna (Rendezvous of the Dead) has remained the stage for one of the most spectacular social forums on the planet. By day, this central square in the city of Marrakesh, one of Morocco's great imperial cities, fosters a kaleidoscope of entertainment ... read more » |
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VARIOUS - ECSTATIC MUSIC OF THE JEMAA EL FNAMaterial from the repertoire of Morocco's greatest musical exports, including Nass El Ghiwane, Lemchaheb, Jil Jilala, Larssad and others from the Chaabi (Moroccan popular music) canon. The songs were given a raw, emotional and fiery interpretation by TROUPE MAJIDI, AMAL ... read more » |
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VARIOUS - ETHNIC MINORITY MUSIC OF NORTHWEST XINJIANG...Xinjiang, China'. Laurent Jeanneau and Shi Tanding have returned from the northwest corner of China's Xinjiang province with an amazing batch of recordings collected during the weeks leading up to the volatile Uyghur uprising of 2009. Armed with their trusty audio gear, ... read more » |
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VARIOUS - ETHNIC MINORITY MUSIC OF SOUTHERN CHINAThe 5th volume in Laurent Jeanneau's amazing Sublime Frequencies documentation of vanishing indigenous music of the rural Asian frontiers. A combination of supremely infectious vocal styles and folkloric instrumentals. |
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VARIOUS - FOLK & POP SOUNDS OF SUMATRA, VOL. 1Limited edition full-coloUr gatefold LP version of the first Sublime Frequencies CD release from 2003. The equator runs through only ten countries on earth and I bet that you cannot name them all without consulting a map. Indonesia is one of them and the only nation in Asia ... read more » |
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