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Knut Reiersrud band - Voodoo without killing chicken
The Norwegian composer and guitarist goes full tilt into the music of
New Orleans in an agressive and unique way, rife with his energetic
playing an d a gang of top nothc blues, jazz and rock ifluenced
musicians. This album features 11 songs that Reiersrud's distinctive
signature, and with six of the lyrics co-authored with Jeff Wasserman.

SKRUK and Katia Cardenal - Messe for Kari og Ola | Misa Campesina
A 'Mass for the Man in the Street' is the Nicaraguan mass by composer
Carlos Mejia Godoy. The Norwegian vocal ensemble SKRUK soloist is
joined by soloist Katia Cardenal and a band of Nicaraguan musicians in
this unique take on liturgical traditions.

Wolfgang Meyerings Malbrook - Qwade Wulf
Meyering's second outing features a more coalesced band and a more
cohesive sound. Songs about murder, jealousy and death. Strange
children songs in polka style and a suite of schottische (Schotsken)
played on mandola, mandolin, hurdy gurdy, German and Swedish bagpipe,
Bohemian/German harp, flutes, fiddles, percussion, loops, sounds and more.

Kerstin Blodig - Nordisk Sjel
A collection of favorite songs from favorite live projects and their
formerly released CDs: Kerstin solo, Kelpie and Talking Water, as well
as newly recorded favourites and tracks from a new studio project with
Scottish songwriter/ producer Bob Melrose

Annbjorg Lien - Waltz with Me
Norwegian hardanger fiddler and composer Annbjørg Lien was
commissioned last year to compose new music for the prestigious
Telemark Festival in Bø, Norway. She responded with an ensemble of
Bruce Molsky on violin and vocals, Christine Hanson on cello and
Mikael Marin on viola, then wrote a varied set of tradition-based
tunes and songs that reflect an eclectic attitude. The strong
chemistry shared by members of the group is apparent on each and every
track on ths lovely recording of new Nordic music.

Selsolater - Låter fra Selsø
New traditional folk music, originating from the bank of Selsø Lake,
west of Copenhagen, Denmark. Svend Erik Pedersen is inspired by the
beautiful nature surrounding thearea. The changing colors during the
day and throughout the year, as well as the constant sounds from the
rich bird life in the lake area, are great sources of inspiration. In
Selsølåter the modern and traditional tunes from Danish, Nordic and
Irish folk music meet and intertwine.Frankly all good tunes and
fiddlers mature by heart. The band members of Selsølåter are all
connected to Lirum Larum and the very traditional and living folk
music region of Roskilde. Fiddler, mandolinist and composer Pedersen
is joine di the band by an group of great violins, , guitar, bass,
organ and percussion.

Carl Erik Lundgaard - Yderland
Danish diatonic accordionist joined by a wide ranging ensemble of
tradtional and modern musicians including Harald Haugaard, Mads
Riishede, Christoffer S. Møller and many others. Yderland consists of
primarily new material from accordionist Carl Erik Lundgaard, arranged
and produced in cooperation with bassist Mads Riishede. The music is
expressive, and has stories to tell, both serious and humorous.

Baltic Crossing - Baltic Crossing
Baltic Crossing use their strong affinity for old dance music and
respect for each others traditions to bring a new youthful energy to
the folk music of Europe. Wherever they meet, at least one has to
cross the Baltic Sea. The ensemble is Kristian Bugge (DK) on violin;
Antti Jarvela (FI) on acocustic bass, mandolin, banjo; Esko Jarvela
(FI) on violin, viola; Andy May (UK) on Northumbrian and Uilleann
pipes and piano and Ian Stephenson (UK) on guitar, melodeon.

Frigg - Economy Class
Frigg return with their third studio album, advancing their place as
young leaders of the Nordic roots music movement. Frigg continue to
forge a unique concoction of string music from many cultures through
the filter of their native traditions of Finland and Norway. With
elements of Appalachian, Celtic, and Eastern European folk influences,
this band of fiddles, bass, guiatar, mandolin and percussion delivers
another brilliant collection.

Zegar Zivi - Zegar Zivi (Zegar Lives)
Powerful acapella group vocals, often using the wild
beating-against-drone technique of groktenje, diple playing,
goat-calling and church-bell ringing from a group of amazingly
resilient Serbian singers who've moved back to their village of Žegar
in the rocky hill-country of Dalmatia in Croatia – a region
war-shattered in the 1990s and still depopulated, but beautiful and
now peaceful - to rebuild their homes and pick up the threads of their
lives and rich musical traditions. The album's title, and the group's
name, means Žegar Lives.Recorded in Žegar in May 2007, produced by
Andrew Cronshaw in collaboration with Svetlana Spaji?. The digipak
contains a 60 page booklet with many photos and extensive notes
including the background story to the recordings (in English).

Les Witches - Manuscrit Susanne van Soldt: Danses, chansons and
psaumes des Flandres, 1599
The source of this music is Susan Van Soldt's manuscript of the end of
the 16th century, comprising dances, songs and psalms adapted to the
virginal or the harpsichord. Aged 16 when she noted in this copy-book
the pieces she probably enjoyed playing at home, Susan was a young
protestant who had to leave Flanders for England with her family at
this time of raging religious conflict between Christians. The
majority of pieces in the manuscript are reductions for the keyboard.
Contrary to what is usually the case, the Witches had therefore to
imagine, on the basis of these reductions, the «original » versions
for instrumental ensembles and hence recreate the tonal colours that
we see in Brueghel's country fairs, weddings and village feasts.
Claire Michon : flute, Freddy Eichelberger : virginal and organ, Odile
Edouard : violin, Pascale Boquet : lute, Sylvie Moquet : viola da
gamba, Mickaël Cozien : virginal, Françoise Rivalland : percussion and
rommelpot.

Dúmbala Canalla - M´enfango
A wild and rambuctious band, this Barcelona-based band combines the
traditional music of the Balkans with traditional Catalan music, swing
and klezmer, the music of the Eastern European Ashkenazi Jews. The
present a raucous festival music full of rich, often circus-like melodies.

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Sonate Calabresi - I Suoni Del Pollino
Nando Citarella - Mozart....al chiaro di luna
Frigg - Economy Class
Tarantolati di Tricarico - Abballam
Tuscae Gentes - Quando Il Merlo Canta
Tuscae Gentes - Viva Faliero!
Jessica Lombardi - In Dote
Jessica Lombardi and Silvio Trotta - Passi Verso Nord
Amadou Sodia - Ça va se savoir
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Uxia - Eterno Navegar
Claudia Bombardella Ensemble - Un Mondo Fra Le Mani
Mahsa and Marjan Vahdat - I Am Eve
Trio Tresca - Umpa Umpa
Moussu T e lei jovents - Home Sweet Home
Omara Portuondo - Gracias
Various Artists - Punto and Trova of Sancti Spiritus (2 CDs)
Mamadou Diabate - Douga Mansa
Terakraft - Akh Issudar
Daniele Bonaventura - Suite per bandoneon e orchestra
Mondo Vercellino - La Famiglia - Balli di Sardegna
Piccola Banda Ikona - Marea cu sarea
Susana Baca - Vestida de Vida
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Eliza Carthy - Dreams Of Breathing Underwater
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