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Singing the Wheel of Brigantia Here is upbeat gypsy music with more than a hint of jazz... a very lively and varied disc, featuring the "Gypsy-Jazz" style of music (also known as Swing Manouche, Sinti Swing or Gypsy Swing), greatly influenced by Django Reinhardt and Stéphane Grapelli, which is played by both Roma and Sinti people. Search Magical Sounds Bookstore Combining cosmopolitan Kenyan style with Luo pop, Suzanna Owiyo's music makes vibrant and compulsive listening. Search Magical Sounds Bookstore The ancient Kafi and raga styles of singing from Punjab feature sufi poetry, devotional songs and love songs, accompanied here with surmandal, sarangi, tampura, harmonium, and tabla. TRACKS Search Magical Sounds Bookstore The album Ancestors was conceived after hearing Russian archive recordings of tribal people of the Siberian Arctic. On this recording the
the icy northern landscape is celebrated by weaving archive material in with original compositions. Search Magical Sounds Bookstore Bamboo Cedar Oak is a meeting of three unique musicians, each masters of the flute in their respective cultures. Search Magical Sounds Bookstore Waiting for the Calm is the first CD from Ciaran Dorris & Heather Innes - 13 tracks featuring the emotive singing of Ciaran Dorris and Heather Innes. Search Magical Sounds Bookstore Huun-Huur-Tu are masters of Tuvan laryngeal overtone singing - one of the most fascinating vocal techniques known. This mysterious technique produces two or three melodies simultaniously. This is achieved by intensifying the naturally resonating overtones so that they may overlap, mingle and so form melodies. Here is music which may seem intriguingly strange to the Western ear, yet curiously contemporary. TRACKS Buy online from PeaceWorkMusic Net Here is distinctive African-Celtic crossover music. Baka Beyond's fifth albumis an "enhanced CD" - including video of Martin Cradick playing with Baka musicians at Lupe in the rainforest. The voices and percussion of the Baka musicians can be heard on Awaya Baka and on Wandering Spirit. There is much celtic Celtic flavour here, too - with a reel from Cornwall included, as well as songs from Scotland - all with african percussion, kora, bagpipes and fiddle etc. - light, melodic, and entirely free of boundaries! TRACKS Search Magical Sounds Bookstore Beyond The forest is a magical mix of chant-like vocals from the Baka Pygmies of Cameroon. The mystical vocal "Yelli" - ritual singing - of the Baka women gives the listener a rare musical insight into an indigenous African Sound. All recorded on a solar-powered 8-track machine in the middle of the Cameroon rainforest!
Wonderfully uplifting music! Since 1999 Martin Cradick, Nii Tagoe and Seckou Keita have all played together in the internationally aclaimed "Baka Beyond". During 2001 they formed a new project, "EtE" which means triangle in Gha (Nii's native tongue) and released an album of the same name. With melodies to touch the heart, rhythms to touch the feet and virtuoso performances on balafon (African xylophone), kora (African harp), guitar and mandolin as well as a range of percussion instruments, this is music to feed the soul! EtE have the ability to weave a spell that will enchant any audience and take them on a journey through uncharted musical waters. Mixing traditions, ancient and modern, from UK, Ghana and Senegal they show that we should relish the diversity of cultures in the world whilst rejoicing in our common language of music. TRACKS Search Magical Sounds Bookstore Oumou Sangare is a celebrated diva in Mali. Compiled by Nick Gold & Charlie Gillett, this double album includes 12 tracks from her first 3 albums, along with 8 songs new to the international audience. Oumou describes herself as "Sangare kono" (Sangare the songbird). This is a special privilege of Wasulu musicians, as it indicates that the music is used to coment on life, and make challenges. This is spirited song, with much to say. TRACKS Disc 1 TRACKS Disc 2 Search Magical Sounds Bookstore Maddy returns to basics with this female acoustic harmony trio. Maddy is joined here by her daugher Rose Kemp, and Abbie Lathe. At just 17
Rose is already a blossoming talent in her own right, while Abbie - a singer, songwriter and multi-instrumentalist of great talent - is a name to
watch. 1. Acapella Stella The Cotton Triangle Buy online from PeaceWorkMusic Net Incanti is the result of Elena Ledda's fascination for her native Sardina and its traditions, a territory across which she charted new pathways, accompanied both by regular cohorts (Sonos) and prestigious guests such Riccardo Tesi on melodeon and classical trumpeter Giorgio Baggiani. Search Magical Sounds Bookstore Faltriqueira is a female vocal group from A Coruña (Galicia). This CD follows five years of playing in the melodic tradition of the pandereteiras (tambourine women players). These five young singers have put together a collection of traditional tunes in a modern style where voices mix with synthesizers and acoustic instruments such as fiddle, accordion, darboukas, txalapartas, cellos and guitar. Their most outstanding feature is the polyphonic arrangement of their melodies as opposed to the traditional monophonic singing of Galician rural villages. Tunes like Vamos dançar, As sete mulleres do miño, De Brañas Verdes show very clearly the band's personal and innovative style. The name of Faltriqueira comes from the pocket that can be found under the traditional costume women wear for dancing. It is there where girls keep small things, little surprises like these vocal pieces the band has gathered for our delight. A vibrant and uplifting album! Buy online from PeaceWorkMusic Net The music of Magical Sounds uses the magic of sacred sound to create sacred space. Their earliest exploration of this magical Otherworld was through the traditional legends, music and song of the Celts. Later they were to create soundscapes to illustrate these legends, using sacred sound. Magical Sounds' most recent projects combine sounds and images to engage the imagination further... Magical Sounds are Jenny & Pat Selfe. "Legends" features dulcimers, zithers, voice and sacred percussion to transport us to the realms of inspiration. TRACKS Magical Sounds 2001
During a pilgrimage through Europe in 1995, a chance encounter with Daniel Perret led to the recording of this album - an exploration of
Magical Sounds' and Daniel's shared love of Featuring dulcimers and harp, this album has been described as "like the music of the angels". Pure silver sound, to lift the Spirit and aid meditation. Breath deeply, relax and enjoy. TRACKS Magical Sounds 1995
"The Enchantment" is a rich and varied tapestry of vocal overtones and accoustic instruments- sacred chants for healing and meditation. Lie down or sit in a comfortable position. Close your eyes and allow the sounds to wash over you. Feel light. Enjoy the effects that each instrument and voice has upon you. Let the sounds vibrate every dimension of your being. Allow the sounds to bring you to a deep state of trance, so that you may identify and eliminate blocks on the physical, mental, emotional and spiritual levels, letting them flow away on the sound current. TRACKS This is music to lift the Spirit and to warm the Heart. "On Wings of Light" is a collection of instrumental music composed by Rosemary Duxbury between 1989 and 1996, featuring Patricia Siffert - piano, Catherine Musker - Violin, Tony Hinnigan - Cello, and Rosemary Greenlees - Oboe. TRACKS 11 111 Buy online from PeaceWorkMusic Net Bhajan is the most important form of Hindu devotional music, interpretted here by the inimitable Kumar Gandharva (1924-1992). These intense vocal meditations, accompanied by tabla, tanpura and harmonium, create a hypnotic and trance-like state. TRACKS Search Magical Sounds Bookstore "Deb" is a heady mix of soaring vocals with arabian and western instruments, both traditional and modern. Flamenco, folk-rock, gypsy and tabla... seasoned with vivacious intensity to create a soaring, swooping feast for the ear. TRACKS Search Magical Sounds Bookstore "Veena" features the traditional southern Indian musical instrument, the veena. This instrument is associated with the goddess of Learning, Saraswathi. The melodies featured here, composed by some of India's greatest composers, soar and flow from the magical touch of this virtuoso performer. This carnatic music is spiritual and devotional, mesmerising and lyrical. TRACKS Search Magical Sounds Bookstore In "Roots and Wings" vocal styles from various musical cultures are juxtaposed, giving us TRACKS Buy online from PeaceWorkMusic Net This double CD set takes us on a journey from the high moor down to the edge of Dartmoor. CD 2 is a rich tapestry of natural moorland sounds, woven together to transport us along the river Dart, from it's source on the windswept moorland down through wooded valleys to the edge of the Moor. TRACKS CD1 TRACKS CD2 Search Magical Sounds Bookstore A Soul Journey for Women, Cave of Elders is a soundscape created with voiceless vocals. Journeying through Blood, Bone, Ash, Night and Moon to reach the Cave-beyond-the-Cave, and return once more, this is an intense "black-wrapped" initiatory experience for women. TRACKS Search Magical Sounds Bookstore Highlands and Skylands is a "minimal masterpiece" of floating melodies to inspire, relax and uplift, TRACKS Search Magical Sounds Bookstore Hildegarde von Bingen (1098 - 1179) was an extraordinary woman - visionary, mystic, artist, composer. In 1989 Garmarna were
commissioned to perform some of the music of Hildegarde von Bingen, to celebrate the 900th anniversary of her birth. Instruments featured include fiddle, viola, bowed harp, jews harp, hurdy gurdy, percussion and ebow. TRACKS Buy online from PeaceWorkMusic Net Here is "Music to get you moving"! TRACKS Search Magical Sounds Bookstore Featuring vocalizations by Boris Grebenshikov, Bardo offers "utterings of the soul"... "speaking in tongues"... a sharing of raw emotion to transport us to that mysterious inner place where we may experience Life anew. TRACKS Search Magical Sounds Bookstore YogaFit is a compilation album, featuring tracks from the earlier albums Tongues, Ritual, Totem and initiation. These tracks have been specially selected to aid yoga practitioners to move through the Slow Flow Yoga postures. But don't wait until the next yoga session to listen to this wonderfully enlivening music! TRACKS Search Magical Sounds Bookstore This is a masterpiece of inspired and inspirational music. To listen with full attention is to be transported to Heart Land, to nourish the Soul. Tim is joined here by many acclaimed artistes, including The Winchester College Choristers, Sarah Leonard, Cecilia, Robert Powell, Patricia
Sperio, Frank Perry and the unforgettable Cat Von Trapp. TRACKS Search Magical Sounds Bookstore This recording is a compilation, taken from Tim's earlier albums - an ideal introduction to his unique style of healing music. The albums featured are"Timeless", "Fish Nite Moon", "Eclipse", "A Calmer Panorama", "Green Dream" and "Whale Song". TRACKS Search Magical Sounds Bookstore Tipperary musician Gary Paul Moore creates music to inspire dreams and aid relaxation. His inspiration comes from the Knockmealdown Mountains of An Caislean Nua. "Songs for the Dream-Master" is a demo CD which combines the meditative ambience of New Age music with a mainstream style. In these
recordings the aim is to capture the "feelings of hope and love that the awsome beauty of nature inspires". TRACKS Search Magical Sounds Bookstore "In the very bones of the drone are the harmonics which provide the inspiration for the melodies". This album is unlike anything you have ever heard - just drones... Now listen again, and you hear rhythms, melodies... Listen again, and the
sound is new once more. An album to listen to - really LISTEN to - again and again. TRACKS Buy online from PeaceWorkMusic Net On this album Andrew Cronshaw explores the musical traditions of the peoples of the far north of Europe. Search Magical Sounds Bookstore Anglicana is Eliza Carthy's expression of englishness, "with people who were around at the time, no border checkpoints, nobody pushed out, just what it is". Wonderful traditional music, performed with great vitality, freshness and style... Destined to become a classic. TRACKS Search Magical Sounds Bookstore Yaya Diallo's "Nangape" is an uplifting album of African drumming, balafon and flute music. The soothing and subtle rhythms and melodies create a five-stage meditation that may lead to a state of trance. The Elders of Mali believe that "this is not Yaya playing, but the Ancestors playing through him"... The album is dedicated to Nangapè Koné, an elder healer, musician and sorcerer. TRACKS Buy online from PeaceWorkMusic Net There is magic in this recording! The distinctive vocal acrobatics of "khailakh", "Khöömii" and "Duulakh" are astonishing, especially when combined with the yoochin (dulcimler), tobshuur (two-stinged lute), ih khuur (bass) and moriin khuur (horse head violin). This is an exhilarating reflection of the joyful and exciting musical tradition of spiritual nomadic peoples. TRACKS Magical Sounds Bookstore
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