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Posted By : Jazzmen | Date : 27 Sep 2011 23:40:06 | Comments : 0

Rim Banna - The Mirrors Of My Soul
World | APE+CUE+LOG files (320 MB) | MP3 @ 320 (130 MB) | Cover Scans | 2005 | 5% Recovery

Palestinian vocalist and composer Rim Banna has made a career out of leveraging respect and dignity for her people using her unmatched artistic expertise and integrity. Banna studied singing and conducting at the High Institute for Music in Moscow, one of the world's more challenging conservatory environments. After the release of two live records, Jafra (1985) and Your Tears, Mother (1986), and six years of formal study, Banna graduated from the High Institute in 1991...
Posted By : Jazzmen | Date : 24 Sep 2011 16:23:22 | Comments : 2

Dr. S. Balachander - Veena - Ragas Shankarabharanam
World | EAC | FLAC+Cue+Log files - (230 MB) | MP3 320 - (110 MB) | Scans | 2005

Born on January 18, 1927, in Madras, Dr. S. Balachander was a key figure in Carnatic classical music. His veena playing was exquisite but he also played a range of other instruments to various degrees of mastery including tabla, harmonium, mridangam, shehnai, dilruba and sitar. He started out, like many instrumentalists, as a vocalist and by the age of six he was on the concert stage. Between the age of 12 and 16 he gave concert recitals on a Hindustani instrument, the sitar...
Posted By : Jazzmen | Date : 23 Sep 2011 06:08:07 | Comments : 1

Brian Keane & Omar Faruk Tekbilek - Beyond The Sky
World | EAC | FLAC+Cue+Log files - (320 MB) | MP3 320 - (140 MB) | Covers | 1992

Beyond the Sky is the third and finest of the collaborations between Turkish musician Omar Faruk Tekbilek and American guitarist, producer, and composer Brian Keane. This time out, they were inspired by Bernardo Bertolucci's film, The Sheltering Sky, based on Paul Bowles's novel. The arrangements are lusher, the moods are deeper, and Tekbilek's playing is more soulful than ever on this evocative and emotionally charged recording...
Posted By : Jazzmen | Date : 22 Sep 2011 05:48:54 | Comments : 2

Mohammadreza Aligholi - Gypsy Moon
World | EAC | Ape+Cue+Log files - (220 MB) | MP3 320 - (100 MB) | Scans | 2001

A lunatic falls in love with the Moon. He marches the world night and day, not to loose the Moon from his sight. A different style of using traditional motives accompanied by Iran's most passionate instruments like Daf, Setar, Kamancheh...
Posted By : Jazzmen | Date : 22 Sep 2011 05:48:24 | Comments : 1

Va - Oriental cafe
Lounge | MP3 CBR 320 kbps | 170 MB | Multiple mirrors + Filesonic | 2002

For those with an interest in modern Middle Eastern music, here is an excellent introductory disc to the music that people there (and all over the eastern hemisphere) listen to today. The nature of the singing is traditionally aramaic,...
Posted By : Jazzmen | Date : 21 Sep 2011 14:04:38 | Comments : 5

Faryad - Masters of Persian Music
World | EAC | Flac tracks+Cue+Log files - (430 MB) | MP3 320 - (210 MB) | Covers (L.Q) | 2003

This four-piece ensemble features the distinguished singer Mohammad Reza Shajarian. A true vocal legend, Shajarian and his apprentice/son Homayoun lead an all-star group on this 2005 release. In earlier centuries, Iranian classical music was relegated to nothing more than a regional style. However, singers such as Shajarian are now finding a great deal of worldwide acclaim.
Posted By : Jazzmen | Date : 20 Sep 2011 19:48:23 | Comments : 1

Omar Faruk Tekbilek - Rare Elements
World | MP3 CBR 320 kbps | 170 MB | Multiple mirrors + Filesonic | 2009

5 points Records' acclaimed Rare Elements series pairs master musicians with the world's hottest re-mixers. This installment features interpretations of ten new tracks by renowned Turkish multi-instrumentalist virtuoso Omar Faruk Tekbilek...
Posted By : Jazzmen | Date : 20 Sep 2011 13:53:48 | Comments : 0

Abed Azrie - Suerte / Live In Berlin
World | EAC | Wv+Cue+Log files - (500 MB) | MP3 320 - (180 MB) | Scans | 2006

Abed Azrie 's voice contain all the sunshine of the riviera, from Syria (his homeland) to France. With his poetic world, somewhere between Mesopotamia and Europe, between tradition and modernity, Abed Azrié proves that the world is eternaly young...
Posted By : Jazzmen | Date : 19 Sep 2011 13:59:38 | Comments : 2

The Nguyên Lê Trio - Million Waves
World | EAC | FLAC+Cue+Log files - (360 MB) | MP3 320 - (140 MB) | Covers | 1995

Nourish your own roots until they blossom into a million flowers, a million scents, a million waves.
Vietnamese guitarist Nguyên Le is one of the major players on the world jazz scene. Born in 1959 in Paris, Lê is a self-taught musician who began playing drums at 15, and went on to master the guitar and electric bass. By the end of the ‘80’s, Nguyên Lê was orking in France with the likes of Carla Bley, Randy Brecker, Gil Evans and Quincy Jones...
Posted By : Jazzmen | Date : 19 Sep 2011 12:33:22 | Comments : 2

Cesaria Evora - Voz D'Amor
World | EAC | FLAC+Cue+Log files - (390 MB) | MP3 320 - (140 MB) | Covers | 2003

Cape Verde is famous for its Afro-Portuguese-inlfluenced music genres: the haunting guitar-based morna and the percussive Cuba- and Brazil-influenced coladeras. Ever since her "discovery" in 1998, vocalist Cesaria Evora, the so-called "Barefoot Diva," has been her country's greatest musical ambassor...
Posted By : Jazzmen | Date : 19 Sep 2011 12:32:51 | Comments : 1

Nguyên Lê - Zanzibar
Jazz | EAC | FLAC+Cue+Log files - (340 MB) | MP3 320 - (140 MB) | Covers | 1996

Lê is often considered to be a fusion guitarist, and the reckless abandon of his solo on the fiery “Urbi” would certainly support that thought. But while he’s capable of rapid-fire phrases and screaming bends, there’s never a sense of excess.
Posted By : Jazzmen | Date : 06 Sep 2011 06:55:11 | Comments : 3

Ustad Vilayat Khan - The Essential Collection
World | EAC | FLAC+Cue+Log files - (310 MB) | MP3 320 - (180 MB) | Scans | 2009

This concert recording from London's Royal Festival Hall in December 1993 consists of an extended reading of the early evening raga "Hameer." Once again Sabir Khan accompanies on tabla.
Posted By : Jazzmen | Date : 05 Sep 2011 07:55:32 | Comments : 0

The Duhks - Your Daughters & Your Sons
Folk | EAC | Wv+Cue+Log files - (310 MB) | MP3 320 - (140 MB) | Scans | 2002

The Duhks is a band from Winnipeg, Canada. The members play a blend of Canadian soul, gospel, North American folk, Brazilian samba, old time country string band, zydeco, and Irish dance music. Hailing from Winnipeg, Manitoba, their music draws heavily on all of the North American musical traditions, while successfully integrating Latin-music-influenced percussion.
Posted By : Jazzmen | Date : 04 Sep 2011 09:41:17 | Comments : 2

Strings Tradition - Strings Tradition
World | EAC | Flac+Cue+Log files - (380 MB) | MP3 320 - (185 MB) | Scans | 2009

Strings Tradition is an original production, different from the countless recordings which try to mix and mingle musical cultures of various origins. It deals with the union of classical traditions (West Africa, North Indian and South India) which have little in common with the vague idea of popular music that we usually associate with the music of the Indian sitar and violin and the Malian kora.
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Posted By : Jazzmen | Date : 25 Aug 2011 17:02:00 | Comments : 4

Various - Gypsy Music of the Balkans (2007)
World | EAC | Ape+Cue+Log files - (365 MB) | MP3 320 - (135 MB) | Scans | 2007

Wild and fiery Balkan 7/8 rhythms as well as heart-rending ballads and everything in between! Played by some of the best-known Balkan Gypsy Bands.