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Troubadours On The Rhine
Loreena Mckennitt

$24.95 – Compact disc / Quinlan Road

Loreena McKennitt release her first unplugged recording. Troubadours on the Rhine was recorded in a Germany and features the singer in a unique radio performance in a house concert setting. The album features her musical... Buy or find out more 


Break It Up
Rura

$24.95 – Compact disc / Greentrax Records

ura won the 'Best Up And Coming Artist' award at the 2011 MG Alba Scots Trad Music Awards, and were also Danny Kyle Award winners that year. Their powerful music has already created a buzz throughout the traditional musi... Buy or find out more 



Leaves Sage Green
Alistair Oglivy

$24.95 – Compact disc / Greentrax Records

Alistair is a fine traditional singer. He was a finalist in the BBC Radio Scotland 'Young Traditional Musician Of The Year' Award in both 2011 and 2012, and won the Traditional Music And Song Association's ‘Young Singer ... Buy or find out more 


Wits End
Ahab

$24.95 – Compact disc / Navigator

Wits End is the stunning Australian only debut album from London-based alt country rockers - ahab. Released to coincide with their first Australian Tour and produced by the legendary John Leckie (Stone Roses, Radiohead),... Buy or find out more 



The Sailor's Revenge
Bap Kennedy

$29.95 – Compact disc / Proper Records

  1. Shimnavale
  2. Not A Day Goes By
  3. Jimmy Sanchez
  4. Lonely No More
  5. The Right Stuff
  6. Maybe I Will
  7. Please Return To Jesus
  8. The Sailor's Revenge
  9. Working Man
  10. The Beauty Of You
  11. Celtic Sea

Gleann Nimhe - The Poison Glen
Altan

$24.95 – Compact disc /

With a career at the pinnacle of Irish music that has spanned nearly 30 years ALTAN has achieved legendary status and venerable position in a genre that has been equally shaped by the band’s influence and genius. More ex... Buy or find out more 



Traveller
Anoushka Shankar

$24.95 – Compact disc / Deutsche Grammophon

Anoushka Shankar's Deutsche Grammophon Debut Celebrates the Lineage of Flamenco from India to Spain!

Deutsche Grammophon's artist Anoushka Shankar is a musical aristocrat: Her father and teacher is Ravi Shankar.

Embracin... Buy or find out more 


The Voice Of Ages
The Chieftains

$19.95 – Compact disc /

The Chieftains, the world's most celebrated traditional Irish band, will mark their 50th anniversary with the release of Voice of Ages (Hear/Concord). An imaginative collaboration featuring a dazzling collection of like-... Buy or find out more 



Lucy Wise And The B Gollies
Lucy Wise and the B Gollies

$29.95 – Compact disc /

Lucy Wise’s song writing is steeped in the Appalachian and Celtic folk music traditions that surrounded her as she grew up in “The Wise Family Band”. The album is a collection of timeless, universally recognisable storie... Buy or find out more 


Toumastin
Tamikrest

$29.95 – Compact disc /

Tamikrest are from the northwest of the Sahara. The band members are all Tuaregs, a group of people that is spread all over North and some of West Africa. Just like Tinariwen Tamikrest have found a way to translate the p... Buy or find out more 



So Frenchy So Chic 2012
Various

$29.95 – Compact disc / Cartell Music

A double-disc compilation of the best new music to come out of France over the past twelve months. Handpicked to break down barriers of language, culture or fashion, these songs will take listeners another electrifying j... Buy or find out more 


 

Tassili
Tinariwen

$25.95$21.95 – Compact disc / V2 Music

Tinariwen are often associated with just one image: that of Touareg rebels leading the charge, machine gun in hand and electric guitar slung over the shoulder. The band ditch this cliché on their fifth album 'Tassili' an... Buy or find out more 



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The Harrow And The Harvest
Gillian Welch

$25.95$24.95 – Compact disc / Acony

Acony Records is proud to announce that on June 24, 2011 they will release The Harrow & The Harvest, the new album by Gillian Welch, featuring ten new songs recorded at her own Woodland Sound Studios in Nashville, Te... Buy or find out more 


She Was A Boy
Yael Naim and David Donatien

$22.95 – Compact disc / Cartell Music

Born in France to Tunisian Jewish immigrants, raised in Israel, and career modelled back in Paris, YAEL NAIM hit the music scene through her and David Donatien track "New Soul", which culminated in commercial and artisti... Buy or find out more 



Arco Iris
Amina Alaoui

$29.95 – Compact disc / Ecm

Catalogue # ECM2180

ABC Classic FM CD of the Week: 17th October 2011

Following her outstanding performance in collaborative work with Jon Balke and Jon Hassell on the “Siwan” recording of 2007/8, Moroccan-born singer Ami... Buy or find out more 


The Goat Rodeo Sessions
Yo Yo Ma, Stuart Duncan, Chris Thile & Edgar Meyer

$26.95 – Compact disc / Sony

In the tradition of Appalachian Journey and Obrigado Brazil, Yo-Yo Ma once again embraces styles and traditions that go beyond Classical Music by bringing together four American string virtuosos and creating a new kind o... Buy or find out more 



Note Of Hope: A Celebration of Woody Guthrie
Various

$24.95 – Compact disc / Savoy Records

Note of Hope, A Celebration of Woody Guthrie, is based on the words and writings of the great American Master. The collection features GRAMMY®-winning bassist Rob Wasserman's collaborations with Jackson Browne, Ani DiFra... Buy or find out more 


Bel Air
Cosmo Cosmolino

$24.95 – Compact disc /

Cosmo Cosmolino, a Melbourne based quintet of luscious strings and romantic piano accordion, creates exquisite music which crosses between tango and gypsy music, song and dynamic chamber pieces via original arrangements ... Buy or find out more 



Shmoozin
Klezmania

$24.95 – Compact disc /

Klezmania plays a mix of traditional Klezmer, Yiddish Folk and Theatre songs, Yiddish Swing and parodies, with a smattering of influences from Russian, Gypsy, Australian.

Their instrumentals convey the gamut of human emo... Buy or find out more 


The Voice Of Ages (Cd/Dvd Edition)
The Chieftains

$26.95 – Compact disc / Concord Jazz

The Chieftains, the world's most celebrated traditional Irish band, will mark their 50th anniversary with the release of Voice of Ages (Hear/Concord). An imaginative collaboration featuring a dazzling collection of like-... Buy or find out more 



Band Of Brothers
Grigoryan Slava & Leonard Tawadros Joseph & J

$14.95 – Compact disc / Abc Music (Records)

Slava & Leonard, Joseph & James -- one super group, two sets of siblings, and four internationally acclaimed musicians: this brotherly collaboration displays sibling revelry at its best.

Regarded as two of Austra... Buy or find out more 


From Monkhouse To Medway 1963 1973
Davy Graham

$26.95 – Compact disc /

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Make The Light
Kate Rusby

$27.95 – Compact disc /

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Ravishing Genius Of Bones
Brian Finnegan

$26.95 – Compact disc /

Brian Finnegan’s new solo CD is not so much a departure from his other gig—as the whistle and flute front man for the modern trad ensemble Flook—as a huge, breathtaking elaboration on many of the unique and daring themes... Buy or find out more 



Buleriando
De Jerez Vikingo

$29.95 – Compact disc /

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Lagrimas Mexicanas
Vinicius Cantuaria Bill Frisell

$24.95 – Compact disc /

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Wind That Shakes The Barley
Loreena Mckennitt

$24.95 – Compact disc / Quinlan Road

In a stirring and inspirational return to her roots, Loreena McKennitt has created a new album of traditional Celtic songs, recorded this summer in the historic 1832 Sharon Temple north of Toronto, Ontario, Canada.

"Ever... Buy or find out more 


Last Star
Heidi Talbot

$29.95 – Compact disc /

She may be an Irish singer from County Kildare, who first attracted attentions while working with the celebrated Irish-American group Cherish the Ladies, but Heidi Talbot is rapidly becoming a key figure in the flourishi... Buy or find out more 



Love And Sorrow
Kavisha Mazzella

$29.95 – Compact disc /

ARIA award winning artist, Kavisha Mazzella, delivers another album, featuring her exemplary songwriting and singing skills. Her songs marry the rich folk music traditions of her Italian parentage, with an ability to art... Buy or find out more 


Countryman
Frank Yamma

$29.95 – Compact disc / Wantok Records

Recorded at an isolated run down country house in Taralga near Goulburn, Frank Yamma's long awaited CD is an album full of great songs of longing, of romance, and of immense beauty, songs of imprisonment, of the deserts ... Buy or find out more 



Afrocubism
Afrocubism

$29.95 – Compact disc / World Circuit Rcds

World Circuit, the label that brought the world BUENA VISTA SOCIAL CLUB, presents the original idea for that project - a stellar collaboration between acclaimed Malian & Cuban musicians, and featuring Grammy Award wi... Buy or find out more 


Air Hadouk
Hadouk Trio

$34.95 – Compact disc / Naive Classique

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Mañana: El Tango - Perlas Del Label
Various

$34.95 – Compact disc /

The Mañana record label - created and directed by Eduardo Makaroff of Gotan Project - has a mission : to popularize the very best contemporary musicians who play tango, milonga, candombe and Argentinian folklore music. Buy or find out more 


Goanna Dreaming
Shane Howard

$29.95 – Compact disc /

A Goanna enlists a Dingo to create a powerful and sublime Australian album. Shane Howard releases his long awaited new studio album, Goanna Dreaming. Produced by Kerryn Tolhurst, (Dingoes) and Howard, this trans-Pacific ... Buy or find out more 



Goanna Dreaming (Deluxe Edition)
Shane Howard

$34.95 – Compact disc /

A Goanna enlists a Dingo to create a powerful and sublime Australian album. Shane Howard releases his long awaited new studio album, Goanna Dreaming. Produced by Kerryn Tolhurst, (Dingoes) and Howard, this trans-Pacific ... Buy or find out more 


Hour Of Separation
Joseph Tawadros

$29.95 – Compact disc /

Catalogue # JT2010

The Hour of Separation deliciously proves a new recipe: take to New York the young Egyptian-Australian lute virtuoso Joseph Tawadros, his new compositions & his younger brother/hand-drummer. Then -... Buy or find out more 



Waltjim Bat Matilda
Ali Mills

$29.95 – Compact disc / Skinnyfish

A Larrakia woman, Ali became a part of the group Mills Sisters in 1982 and since then she has performed with some of the top names in the music industry such as Charlie Pride, Tina Turner, The Bushwackers, Bullamakanka, ... Buy or find out more 


The Turning Tide
Solas

$29.95 – Compact disc / Compass Records

Irish-American, Celtic folk ensemble Solas has built its reputation on a winning combination of peerless musicianship and excellent song choices. Like most solid traditional acts, the group breathes life into standards w... Buy or find out more 



Exiles Return
Karan Casey and John Doyle

$29.95 – Compact disc / Compass Records

It's been a long time since Karan Casey and John Doyle played together in Solas. Now with both very much at the top of their game, the idea of a duet album seems like a no-brainer. It's certainly one of the loveliest Iri... Buy or find out more 


Dreams In America
Luka Bloom

$25.95 – Compact disc / Cortex

Representing the journey from when he emigrated to New York from Ireland 20 Years Ago, 'Dreams In America' is a wonderful career overview that features new interpretations of 14 Luka classics - including The Acoustic Mot... Buy or find out more 



Egypt Noir
Ali Hassan Kuban and Mahmoud Fadl

$29.95 – Compact disc / Piranha Records

In the last decades, Western archeologists unearthed the remains of an advanced Black African civilization thousands of years older than Egypt's under the deserts of Sudan. But they could have just as easily discovered t... Buy or find out more 


Assume Crash Postion
Konono No. 1

$29.95 – Compact disc / Crammed/Filter

The new KONONO NO.1 album, the fourth volume in the Congotronics series from Crammed Discs. Once again recorded in their home domain of Kinshasa, DR Congo by Congotronics series producer Vincent Kenis, the long-anticipat... Buy or find out more 



Eritrea's Got Soul
Asmara All Stars

$29.95 – Compact disc / Outhere Records

After 30 years of war with Ethiopia and a decade of seclusion, the Asmara All Stars now introduce some of the best musicians and vocalists from Eritrea. The Asmara All Star project is all about leaving politics behind an... Buy or find out more 


A Tiempo
Rosario La Tremendita

$34.95 – Compact disc / World Village

Rosario La Tremendita is one of the most promising figures of today's flamenco.

She develops and searches tirelessly with her tuned voice and exact rhythm for the deepest roots of this art, which she reinterprets at ever... Buy or find out more 



Africa For Africa
Femi Kuti

$25.95 – Compact disc / Wrasse Records

  1. Dem Bobo
  2. Nobody Beg
  3. Politics In Africa
  4. Bad Government
  5. Can't Buy Me
  6. Africa For Africa
  7. Make We Remember
  8. Obasanjo Don Play You Wayo
  9. Boys Dey Hungry For Town
  10. Now You See
  11. No Blame Them
  12. Yeparipa

Brothers In Borscht
Nights Bohemian

$26.95 – Compact disc /

Violinist Ernie Gruner and accordionist/singer Phil Carroll play Gypsy, Klezmer, Middle-Eastern, French, Italian, Russian, jazz and tango music which range from soulful to wild.

Australian concerts highlights include the... Buy or find out more 



Malk
Saltwater Band

$29.95 – Compact disc / Skinnyfish

Malk is the third album from the Saltwater band . A highly successful band in northern Australia but lesser known in southern Australia. Malk is sure to change that. Gurrumul Yunupingu and Manuel Dhurrkay have created an... Buy or find out more 


Djan Djan
Diabate Diabate, Bobby Singh, Jeff Lang

$24.95 – Compact disc /

Mamadou (kora, Mali), Bobby Singh (tabla, India) and Jeff Lang (guitar, Australia) are well known and well regarded for their individual output and careers. Djan Djan is a new collaboration which sees these musicians str... Buy or find out more 



Dream Attic
Richard Thompson

$34.95 – Compact disc / Proper Records

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La Nua
Lunasa

$29.95 – Compact disc /

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O Hele Le
Ego Lemos

$29.95 – Compact disc / Skinnyfish

Ego Lemos is a remarkable man, with a remarkable voice in more ways than one. Regarded as a significant East Timorese community member, Ego has lived through three tumultuous periods of his nation's history. He has inter... Buy or find out more 


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