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	April 2024 Edition

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	Artist Dengue Fever Album Review Venus on Earth Label: M80 Genre: Cambodian Pop Origin: USA Format: Music CD, Import Wiki article
The group began at least as a tribute to the playful yet heavy psychedelic pop scene that flourished in Cambodia before Pol Pot came to power and silenced countless suspected dissidents in that country's infamous killing fields in the mid-1970s. Like the Cambodian pop music that so enamored them, Dengue Fever began by revitalizing strong elements of '60s surf and garage rock in their sound. Dengue Fever now plays original, swirling, psychedelic pop. There are samples for you to listen when you click the link below.
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	Artist Egberto Gismonti Album Review Alma Label: Ecm. Import Genre: Modern Classical Origin: Brazil Format: Music CD Wiki article
Wonderful piano pieces by Brazil's modern classical composer Egberto Gismonti. A well known guitarist in Brazil, Gismonti began formal piano training at the age of six. After studying classical music for 15 years, he went to Paris to study orchestration and analysis with Nadia Boulanger and the composer Jean Barraqué, a disciple of Schoenberg and Webern Click the link below to listen to samples.
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	Artist Enya Album Review A Day Without Rain Label: Reprise / Wea Genre: Celtic Folk Origin: Ireland Format: Music CD Wiki article
A Day Without Rain, Enya's fourth release since Watermark, establishes new artistic heights for the gifted Irish vocalist and keyboardist. -- a radiant, beatific collection of works that command attention with their cathedral-like resonance as they soothe your spirit with some of Enya's loveliest, most graceful voicings ever. A wonderful recording. There are samples for you to hear when you click the link below.
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	Artist Enya Album Review Paint the Sky with Stars: The Best of Enya Label: Reprise / Wea Genre: Celtic Folk Origin: Ireland Format: Music CD Wiki article
Paint the Sky with Stars, an assortment of Enya's best work. The most melodic and atmospheric examples of Enya's lovely Celtic-flavored songwriting shine on this disc. Overall, an outstanding collection from an artist who gives New Age a good name.
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	Artist Enya Album Review And Winter Came Label: Reprise Records Genre: Celtic Folk Origin: Ireland Format: Music CD Wiki article
And Winter Came is an enchanting evocation of the changing landscape of winter as well as the festive cheer of the holidays. Enya brings her beguiling and ethereal music to bear on the darkest and yet most hopeful season with And Winter Came Click the link below to listen to samples.
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	Artist Manu Chao Album Review La Radiolina Label: Nacional Records Genre: Basque Origin: France Format: Music CD Wiki article
Infusing rock fundamentals with elements of ska, reggae, punk, and Afro-pop since fronting Mano Negra ("Black Hand") in 1986, Chao's grown by continental leaps as a bandleader since then, as La Radiolina's mix of festival-rousing rock, defiant politics, and multilingual lyrics attests. Samples available for you to hear when you click the link below
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	Artist Mariza Album Review Terra Label: FOUR QUARTERS ENT Genre: Folk Origin: Portugal Format: Music CD Wki article
2008 release from this critically-acclaimed vocalist. With musicians from England, Spain, Cuba and Brazil she has discovered a genuinely new sound that has it's roots in Fado but which is now so much more open and outward looking. Click the link below to hear samples
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	Artist Mariza Album Review Fado Em Mim Label: Times Square Records Genre: Folk Origin: Portugal Format: Music CD Wki article
This twentysomething, Mozambique-born beauty of Portuguese, Spanish, German, African, and Indian descent rapidly rose from the Mouraria district of Lisbon to become fado's newest and brightest star. The 12 selections on this recording are arranged in chamber-style ensembles consisting of bass, piano, classical guitar, and its 12-stringed, Portuguese cousin, the Portuguese viola. Click the link below to hear samples
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	Artist Masters of Persian Music Album Review Faryad Label: World Village USA Genre: Persian Classical Origin: Iran Format: Music CD Wiki article
As a meeting of living masters, this collaboration would be hard to top. It is not surprising that their recent USA tours were routinely sold out or that their debut album, Without You, was nominated for a 2003 Grammy. The tradition these artists exemplify is drawn from medieval Persian court music and Sufi devotional poetry.
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	Artist Sa Dingding Album Review Alive Label: Wrasse Records Genre: contemporary Origin: China Format: Music CD, Import Wiki article
These traditional Chinese melodies and Buddhist mantras played on electronic instruments have sold two million copies in China Alive is a mix of Tibetan, Mandarin and Sanskrit built around traditional Chinese folk music, exquisitely executed with refined use of programmed electronic sounds and beats in tandem with Chinese instrumentation creating a totally original blend. One of the hardest things to achieve is the marriage between modern arrangement and traditional instrumentation and melodies. On " Alive" Sa Dingding has achieved this with exceptional grace. There are samples for you to listen when you click the link below
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