World Music

Artist TERAKAFT
Title Aratan N Azawad
Label World Village
Hypnotic third album from the Malian group Terakaft.  Swirling guitar riffs, subterranean bass and shattering percussion, these blue bloods of the Sahara mine the legacy of John Cipollina amd Jimi Hendrix.

Artist Bryn Terfel
Title Carols And Christmas Songs
Label

’Bryn’s Christmas’ is the seasonal album from Welsh baritone opera singer Bryn Terfel. Featuring heartwarming interpretations of festive classics such as ’Mary’s Boy Child’, ’O Holy Night’, ’Silent Night’, this is the ideal Noel record.

Includes bonus disc of collaborations.

Artist The Baghdaddies
Title Dancylvania
Label Baghdaddies
Emanating from Newcastle-upon-Tyne, The Baghdaddies’ fifth album ’Dancylvania’ is more riotous Balkan gypsy brass band music mixed with western punk energy, a raw sound that has been sending audiences into a state of wild frenzy throughout Europe. The Baghdaddies driving rhythm section and blistering brass have produced an album full of Eastern beats, theatre, hip-thrusting Latin dance grooves and Balkan style melodies, with original uplifting songs in English, Welsh and other mysterious tongues, inspired by the Roma wedding and brass band music of the Balkans, fused by eclectic musical influences ranging from calypso and jazz to punk. "Riotous Balkan Gypsy brass band music, big favourites on the festival circuit" - Folk Roots.

Artist Tinariwen
Title Aman Iman (Water is Life)
Label Indipendiente
New album from a band formed by Moammar al-Qadhafi and camps of Turaeg rebels.

Artist Tinariwen
Title Amassakoul
Label IRL

Artist TINARIWEN
Title Amassakoul
Label Triban

Artist Tinariwen
Title Inidiwan - Companions
Label Independiente
Legendary guitar-poets release their long-awaited follow up to the award winning ’Aman Iman: Water Is Life’. ’Imidiwan: Companions’.  This is vintage Tinariwen: raw, defiant, fragile and uncompromisingly real. The CD is accompanied by a short film by French filmaker Jessey Nottola. Imidiwan reaffirms Tinariwen’s global status as one of the most popular and significant groups to have come out of West Africa.

Artist Tinariwen
Title Live In London
Label Independiente

Artist TINARIWEN
Title Radio Tisdas Sessions
Label

Artist TINARIWEN
Title Tassili
Label
On Tassili, Touareg guitar heroes Tinariwen’s and their debut for Anti Records, strip their army of hypnotic electric guitars sound back to its barest, and offer a twist. Recorded in a protected region of the Southeastern Algerian desert, this nomadic group recorded Tassili with only acoustic guitars and hand percussion. Tunde Adebimpe and Kyp Malone of TV on the Radio contributed to the sessions in Africa. The tapes were sent to the States, where Nels Cline added guitar parts, and New Orleans’ Dirty Dozen Brass Band’s horns were melded into the mix.

Artist Tinariwen / Four Tet / Aimal Collective
Title Tassili Reimix RSD12
Label V2
RSD2012 Marble coloured 12"
TINARIWEN
Tassili Remix EP (Four Tet Remix)
Tenere Tossam (Four Tet Remix)
Imidiwan Tennam (Gypsyphonic Remix)
Imidiwan Tennam (Portugal The Man Remix)
Tameyawt (Animal Collective Remix - Deakin’s Jam)

Artist Ali Farka Toure & Toumani Diabate
Title Ali & Toumani
Label World Circuit
Their second, and last album together, recorded in 2005 with contributions from Orlando ’Cachaito’ Lopez on bass. Produced by Nick Gold and beautifully recorded by Jerry Boys, this is the successor to the Grammy - winning ’In the Heart of the Moon’ which has sold over 40,000 copies in the UK alone. It is the last album recorded by both Ali Farka Toure and Cachaito Lopez.