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fRoots 22

fROOTS #22 CD
Here's what's on the FREE! CD with fR247/248 (January/February 2004)


  1. THINK OF ONE: NI NA
    Belgium invades the world! Antwerp's brassy, versatile wonderband.
  2. ABYSSINIA INFINITE: GELA
    Ethiopia's Ejigayehu 'Gigi' Shibabaw meets Bill Laswell.
  3. PIETRA MONTECORVINO: GUAGLIONE
    Startling new pan-Mediterranean approach to Neapolitan song.
  4. KÉKÉLÉ: BEBE YAOURT
    Congolese veterans going the acoustic rumba route.
  5. WHAPWEASEL: THE TINTED QUIFF
    Summer 2003 festival kings leading the English ceilidh rebirth.
  6. OI VA VOI: A CSITARI HEGYEK ALATT
    The UK klezmer futurists finally get to make their big album.
  7. JUNE TABOR: HUGHIE GRAEME
    England's great song interpreter returns to traditional balladry.
  8. TRIO DCA: POLKA À ALFRED MOURET
    Powerhouse French dance music on squeezebox, hurdy gurdy & pipes.
  9. OS DIPLOMATICOS: DEIXA-ME SUBIR O ALTO
    Rousing Galician roots rockers (with guesting Susana Seivane).
  10. CANTODISCANTO: MALMEDITERRANEO
    This CD's second dose of pan-Mediterranean music from Naples.
  11. ELENA LEDDA: INCANTI
    From the re-issue of a classic album by the great Sardinian singer.
  12. ABDUL TEE-JAY: A NOR NEM YOU
    From Sierra Leone, UK resident guitar master's acoustic roots project.
  13. SALEM TRADITION: WALIWA
    From La Reunion, Christine Salem's earthy approach to maloya.
  14. MAHWASH & ENSEMBLE KABOUL: MOLA MAMAD DJAN
    Celebrating the golden era of Afghan music before the collapse.
  15. MALOUMA: MREIMIDA
    Mauritania's magnificently funky singer in desert blues mode.
  16. TAFFETAS: SAUDADE DO MEU AMOR
    Guinean kora, Swiss guitar and bass in a beautiful blend.
  17. THINK OF ONE MARRAKECH EMBALLAGES ENSEMBLE: TI JOERAR
    Ending where we started, another of Think Of One's amazing projects!
Full details of availability for the source CDs are to be found within the magazine. UK web retailer The Phat Planet have managed to source many of the albums from whence came the tracks on fRoots 22

 

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