fRoots 14
Here's what's on the FREE! CD with fR199/200 (January/February 2000)
- TAJ MAHAL & TOUMANI DIABATE: QUEEN BEE
Timeless new/old music where the blues meets its living ancestors. From the fRoots Critics' Poll album of 1999. - HUONG THANH: ONE RIVER, TWO STREAMS
Vietnamese singer (arranged by Nguyên Lê) pushing the cross-cultural boundaries. - THE POSH BAND: DUKE OF CORNWALL'S REEL
Proper-job English dance music from one of the best new old-style bands around. - BISSO NA BISSO: AFRICA BY NIGHT
The French-based Congolese hip-hoppers who won this year's KORA award. - JULIE MURPHY: POLLY VAUGHAN
The major new UK folk voice of recent years, with that chap M. Simpson. - FRIFOT: FÖRGÄVES/VINDLAREN
A.k.a. Ale Möller, Per Gudmundson & Lena Willemark: Sweden's finest. - ISSA BAGAYOGO: MADOMBA
The Malian chap they call "Techno Issa" with the contemporary Wassoulou angle. - SALLY TIMMS: CRY CRY CRY
Mekons frontperson puts her cool English vocal mark on a J. Cash classic. - YASUBA JUN & AN-CHAN PROJECT: AMAGOI BUSHI
Haunting Okinawan-style music from occasional member of Shisars. - TONY ROSE: 'TWAS ON ONE APRIL MORNING
The welcome return of a mighty singer from the lost decade of English folk. - SUSANA SEIVANE: FONSAGRADA
Fast-rising young Galician gaita (bagpipe) player. - ARGAN: TAKATE
The CD title, South Moroccan Motor Berber, defines the sound, but just when did Matty Groves get to Morrocco?! - HOLY MODAL ROUNDERS: BAD BOY
Legendary '60s US duo, re-formed if not reformed, in classic style. - DARMADAR: IL PREGHIERA
Neapolitan Sufi trance/dub explorations in Italian and Arabic... - THE INNOCENCE MISSION: WHERE DOES THE TIME GO?
Sweet-voiced Karen Peris leads a beautiful slice of contemporary acoustic. - NANCY KERR & JAMES FAGAN: REEL DU PENDU
Stomping fiddle/bouzouki from the hot young Anglo/Australian duo. - DJ CHEB I SABBAH: KESSE KESSE
California-based Algerian DJ in Asian music fusion project. Small world!
Full details of availability for the source CDs are to be found within the magazine.