The Llano covers parts of both Colombia and Venezuela. Its half a million square kilometers of hot, flat savannah, are the home of two and a half million cowherders, who proudly identify and define themselves as Llaneros. These people, characterized by freedom, valor and selfsufficiency love above all their horses, their land, feasts, wine and singing.
Curro Piñana is one of the key figures of a style of flamenco that is little known in France, the Cante Minero. This genre developed at the end of the 19th century in the mining regions of Murcia, Cartagena, Jaen, Linares, and Almeria.
This CD stays as close as possible to the forms and sonorities of the Moor classical music, the azawan, as it was performed in the tent for an audience of connoisseurs and poets.
Ibrahim Keivo's singing illustrate the wondering multi-ethnicity of the Jezireh, this region of the Syrian Mesopotamia where Arabs, Assyrians, Chaldeans, Kurds, Syriacs and Armenians live side by side and share their songs and music.
This CD offers a musical journey through Laos from North to South to discover the multiple facets of a musical genre called lam in the provinces of central and southern Laos and khap in the northern provinces.
Nafer Durán (born in 1932 in El Paso) is one of the last juglares, these minstrels of the Upar Valley (northern Colombia) where, for almost two centuries, the vallenato music has blended indian, african and european traditions.
The folk tradition of the ashiq (or ashik, ashek, aşık) is the favorite musical expression of the Azerbaijani people. The ashiq is a bard, a singer, a saz lute player sometimes accompanied by an oboe balaban and percussion instruments. His repertoire is mostly composed of love songs and epics.
Yoshio Kurahashi was trained in the traditional school of the shakuhachi flute, Kinko-ryû, which has transmitted for more than two centuries the shakuhachi solo pieces of the Fuké sect, a branch of the Zen buddhism in Japan.
Beihdja Rahal is one of the most beautiful voices of the arab-andalusian music of Algiers. According to the tradition, she sings in solo with a chamber ensemble which magnifies the sensuality of her medium range, her angelic high notes and the flexibility of her ornaments.
Beihdja Rahal is one of the most beautiful voices of the arab-andalusian music of Algiers. According to the tradition, she sings in solo with a chamber ensemble which magnifies the sensuality of her medium range, her angelic high notes and the flexibility of her ornaments.
As a passionate defender of Arab music, Munir Bashir was in constant rebellion against the misrepresentation of this music and its use for commercial ends.
