fRoots 16
Here's what's on the FREE! CD with fR211/212 (January/February 2001)
- SPACCANAPOLI: ANEME PERZE
New sounds from the ancient tammurriate roots of Naples, Italy. - LES GO: THEBA
A trio of West African women with a great live reputation too. - ANDY IRVINE: MORETON BAY
The unmistakeable sound of a living legend of Irish music. - RENÉ LACAILLE: TIKILIK
Indian Ocean squeezebox from the French island of La Reunion. - MASSILIA SOUND SYSTEM: LA FILLE DU SELECTA
Marseille-based posse mixing up ragga and local French roots. - JACK EVANS: FUGITIVES FROM URJAZ
Inventive Scottish guitarist, here teamed with Jenny Gardner's fiddle. - JOHN HIATT: LINCOLN TOWN
U.S. songwriting giant and ex-Cooder sideman gets back to basics. - KARDES TÜRKÜLER: DARGIN MAHKUM
From a first rate project exploring music from the East of Turkey. - BEMBEYA JAZZ NATIONAL: ALLA LAKÉ
A '70s classic by the greatest of all Guinean bands. - BAYOU SECO: CHILE VERDE
Tune session hit by popular UK visitors from the US South West - BILL JONES: THE FISHERBOY
The new English folk artist who has drawn lots of attention in 2000. - TELEK: MIDAL
Intriguing roots songwriter from Papua New Guinea. - ZAINABA with SAMBECO: YOWA
Classy singer backed by ace wedding band from the Comores islands. - MARK BAZELEY & JASON RICE
Proper job Dartmoor dance music in the Bob Cann tradition. - BOOM BOOM LANGUAGE
Giovanni Lo Cascio and Arnaldo Vacca's Italian cross-cultural percussion project. - BLOCO VOMIT: WILD THING/ LOUIE LOUIE
Scotland's very best samba-punk manguebeat afroblocrockers.
Full details of availability for the source CDs are to be found within the magazine.