The Rustavi Choir consists of the best soloists of all Georgia, who have been brought together to preserve the more than thousand year old local tradition of polyphonic singing. In addition, this CD features the slow, stately melodies of the Duduki trio, typically played in wine taverns or during banquets

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In the ensemble playing of mbira music, the solo parts of the individual musicians are woven into a communal tapestry of highly complex melodies of unparalleled artistry. "It's hard to believe that one country can offer so much Africa" (FAZ). The CD also features an interesting mbira composition by Kevin Volans, who has composed many pieces for the Kronos Quartet.

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Ross Daly is a magician leading us on a dream-like journey through a labyrinth of Greek, Oriental and Mediterranean sounds. His group, Labyrinth, which features more than 40 instruments, performs a repertoire that includes the most diverse musical traditions of Greece and the former Ottoman empire.

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This CD has the distinction of being both an historical and pioneering work. It documents the first time that Ladysmith Black Mambazo and Johnny Clegg with Sipho Mchunu ever performed outside of the African continent: An event that set the ears of the world abuzz — and a discovery, Ladysmith Black Mambazo, that Paul Simon (Graceland) will never forget.

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This dense jungle of atmospheric sounds transports us back to a time when mankind lived in harmony with nature. With a power-giving collection of traditional instruments this music issues directly from the poetic tap-root of ancient American Indian cultures.

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Certainly no other sambista in Brazil is as revered as Paulinho da Viola. He has the uncanny, indeed, unique ability to fuse the rhythm of the samba with Iyrics of amazing sensitivity. In Rio, these recordings quickly became the media hit of Brazil. Legendary samba musicians like the pianist Cristóvão Bastos and the cuíca player Mestre Marçal fill out Paulinho's ensemble.

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This undisputed master of Yiddish soul music has the almost magic ability to endow his clarinet with the expressive power of the human voice; he makes it sing, giggle, moan and whisper. "By far the best live performance of my entire musical career" (Giora Feidman). "He has given the clarinet a new voice" (Benny Goodman).

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The brothers Nazakat and Salamat Ali Khan are legends in the world of North Indian classical music. A rare document of Indian vocal art at its zenith. "As a child in my parents' home, I got to know the masterly art of khyal singing. They've been my idols ever since" (Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan).

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Overtone singing is one of the most astonishing vocal forms in the world. With digital recordings directly from Tuva, in addition to excellent studio recordings, this CD presents a fascinating spectrum of the Tuvinian art of Chöömej, in which the magical sounds of horsehead fiddles and the jaw's harp carry you away, heart and soul, into the remote vastness of the Tuvinian steppes.

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No archive in the world has a collection of authentic Alpine folk music to vie with that of the German broadcasting company WDR. This album, with neither keyboards nor kitsch, introduces listeners to the region's wide range of styles, instruments and traditions.

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Afghanistan's musical styles are as diverse and fascinating as the many different ethnic groups who inhabit this country of contrasts at the crossroads of major civilisations. From the vast archives of the WDR German broadcasting company, we have selected the most heart-rending ballads, trance-like violin and percussion cycles and the most bluesy call-and-response songs.

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Afghanistan's musical styles are as diverse and fascinating as the many different ethnic groups who inhabit this country of contrasts at the crossroads of major civilisations. From the vast archives of the WDR German broadcasting company, we have selected the most heart-rending ballads, trance-like violin and percussion cycles and the most bluesy call-and-response songs.

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The members of the Kohinoor Langa Group belong to a caste of musicians who have made an important contribution to musical developments in Asia over the centuries. The group's focus of attention are vocal solos of astonishing virtuosity, irresistible rhythms on drums, castanets and jaw's-harps, and lyrical passages played on the 28-stringed sarangi.

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Azerbaijan's most popular mugham trio, formed around Alim Qasimov, the "magical voice" (Le Monde) of Azerbaijan. The Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung speaks of "a vocal miracle: each individual tone expresses fundamental emotions, the graceful beauty and atmospheric density of the music spans hours, even centuries, creating moments that are eternal."

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Peru's great geographic and ethnic diversity and its chequered history are all reflected in the enormous variety of its musical traditions. The country's most famous musicians provide a broad introduction to this rich tapestry, with a wealth of different stringed instruments, flutes, percussion and superb vocalists.

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Excellent collection on 2 CDs plus superb booklet

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Excellent collection on 2 CDs plus superb booklet

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Excellent collection on 2 CDs plus superb booklet

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Virtual world music. Choirs of monks from ancient cultures meet futuristic percussion, while sitar, cembalo and overtone singing weave a tapestry of new psycho-musical worlds. According to Hi-Fi Vision, this is "an exciting rush of sound somewhere between gamelan and experimental electronic".

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Ghalia Benali from Tunisia is one of the musical surprises to emerge from the Arab world at the turn of the millennium. A successful actress, she played a leading role in the film "La saison des hommes". Her highly acclaimed concerts in Tunis, Paris and Brussels had the record companies queuing to sign her up, but she preferred to wait until she had found her dream line-up. And now she has - Timnaa is an international ensemble whose virtuoso fiddles, flamenco guitars and Arab percussion carry her expressively smoky and profoundly emotional voice from Tunisia to Andalusia and back again, via the Balkans and Brazil. Ghalia herself describes her new project as "Arab music in new forms, sometimes festive but never profane, occasionally ro-mantic and elegiac, or even classical and medieval, and sometimes wild and over the top - a passport to many cultures, a microcosm that merges the centuries into some-thing new".

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